tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets

[ This combines upstream commit
  2f533844 and the follow-on bug fix
  commit 35f9c09f ]

vmsplice()/splice(pipe, socket) call do_tcp_sendpages() one page at a
time, adding at most 4096 bytes to an skb. (assuming PAGE_SIZE=4096)

The call to tcp_push() at the end of do_tcp_sendpages() forces an
immediate xmit when pipe is not already filled, and tso_fragment() try
to split these skb to MSS multiples.

4096 bytes are usually split in a skb with 2 MSS, and a remaining
sub-mss skb (assuming MTU=1500)

This makes slow start suboptimal because many small frames are sent to
qdisc/driver layers instead of big ones (constrained by cwnd and packets
in flight of course)

In fact, applications using sendmsg() (adding an additional memory copy)
instead of vmsplice()/splice()/sendfile() are a bit faster because of
this anomaly, especially if serving small files in environments with
large initial [c]wnd.

Call tcp_push() only if MSG_MORE is not set in the flags parameter.

This bit is automatically provided by splice() internals but for the
last page, or on all pages if user specified SPLICE_F_MORE splice()
flag.

In some workloads, this can reduce number of sent logical packets by an
order of magnitude, making zero-copy TCP actually faster than
one-copy :)
Reported-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>

fs/splice.c

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/uio.h>
 #include <linux/security.h>
+#include <linux/socket.h>
 
 /*
  * Attempt to steal a page from a pipe buffer. This should perhaps go into
@@ -637,7 +638,9 @@ static int pipe_to_sendpage(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
 
 	ret = buf->ops->confirm(pipe, buf);
 	if (!ret) {
-		more = (sd->flags & SPLICE_F_MORE) || sd->len < sd->total_len;
+		more = (sd->flags & SPLICE_F_MORE) ? MSG_MORE : 0;
+		if (sd->len < sd->total_len)
+			more |= MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST;
 		if (file->f_op && file->f_op->sendpage)
 			ret = file->f_op->sendpage(file, buf->page, buf->offset,
 						   sd->len, &pos, more);

include/linux/socket.h

@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ struct ucred {
 #define MSG_ERRQUEUE	0x2000	/* Fetch message from error queue */
 #define MSG_NOSIGNAL	0x4000	/* Do not generate SIGPIPE */
 #define MSG_MORE	0x8000	/* Sender will send more */
-
+#define MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST 0x20000 /* sendpage() internal : not the last page */
 #define MSG_EOF         MSG_FIN
 
 #define MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC 0x40000000	/* Set close_on_exit for file

net/ipv4/tcp.c

@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ static ssize_t do_tcp_sendpages(struct sock *sk, struct page **pages, int poffse
 	}
 
 out:
-	if (copied)
+	if (copied && !(flags & MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST))
 		tcp_push(sk, flags, mss_now, tp->nonagle);
 	return copied;
 

net/socket.c

@@ -732,9 +732,9 @@ static ssize_t sock_sendpage(struct file *file, struct page *page,
 
 	sock = file->private_data;
 
-	flags = !(file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) ? 0 : MSG_DONTWAIT;
-	if (more)
-		flags |= MSG_MORE;
+	flags = (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) ? MSG_DONTWAIT : 0;
+	/* more is a combination of MSG_MORE and MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST */
+	flags |= more;
 
 	return kernel_sendpage(sock, page, offset, size, flags);
 }