Thread (14 messages) flat view 14 messages, 3 authors, 2011-10-17

Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: reduce memory needs of out of order queue

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2011-10-14 16:11:39
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [tcp], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Neal Cardwell, Linus Torvalds

Le vendredi 14 octobre 2011 à 18:00 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
Now we also could do the copybreak for frames queued into regular
 receive_queue, if current wmem_alloc is above 25% of rcvbuf space...
I mean rmem_alloc of course...

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index c1653fe..0fe0828 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -4426,6 +4426,25 @@ static inline int tcp_try_rmem_schedule(struct sock *sk, unsigned int size)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Caller want to reduce memory needs before queueing skb
+ * The (expensive) copy should not be be done in fast path.
+ */
+static struct sk_buff *skb_reduce_truesize(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	if (skb->truesize > 2 * SKB_TRUESIZE(skb->len)) {
+		struct sk_buff *nskb;
+
+		nskb = skb_copy_expand(skb, skb_headroom(skb), 0,
+				       GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN);
+		if (nskb) {
+			__kfree_skb(skb);
+			skb = nskb;
+		}
+	}
+	return skb;
+}
+
 static void tcp_data_queue(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	struct tcphdr *th = tcp_hdr(skb);
@@ -4475,6 +4494,10 @@ queue_and_out:
 			    tcp_try_rmem_schedule(sk, skb->truesize))
 				goto drop;
 
+			if (atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) > sk->sk_rcvbuf >> 2) {
+				skb = skb_reduce_truesize(skb);
+				th = tcp_hdr(skb);
+			}
 			skb_set_owner_r(skb, sk);
 			__skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_receive_queue, skb);
 		}
@@ -4553,6 +4576,11 @@ drop:
 	SOCK_DEBUG(sk, "out of order segment: rcv_next %X seq %X - %X\n",
 		   tp->rcv_nxt, TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq, TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq);
 
+	/* Since this skb might stay on ofo a long time, try to reduce
+	 * its truesize (if its too big) to avoid future pruning.
+	 * Many drivers allocate large buffers even to hold tiny frames.
+	 */
+	skb = skb_reduce_truesize(skb);
 	skb_set_owner_r(skb, sk);
 
 	if (!skb_peek(&tp->out_of_order_queue)) {
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