Re: [RFC Optimizing veth xsk performance 00/10]

On Thu, 2023-08-03 at 22:04 +0800, huangjie.albert wrote:

AF_XDP is a kernel bypass technology that can greatly improve performance.
However, for virtual devices like veth, even with the use of AF_XDP sockets,
there are still many additional software paths that consume CPU resources. 
This patch series focuses on optimizing the performance of AF_XDP sockets 
for veth virtual devices. Patches 1 to 4 mainly involve preparatory work. 
Patch 5 introduces tx queue and tx napi for packet transmission, while 
patch 9 primarily implements zero-copy, and patch 10 adds support for 
batch sending of IPv4 UDP packets. These optimizations significantly reduce 
the software path and support checksum offload.

I tested those feature with
A typical topology is shown below:
veth<-->veth-peer                                    veth1-peer<--->veth1
	1       |                                                  |   7
	        |2                                                6|
	        |                                                  |
	      bridge<------->eth0(mlnx5)- switch -eth1(mlnx5)<--->bridge1
                  3                    4                 5    
             (machine1)                              (machine2)    
AF_XDP socket is attach to veth and veth1. and send packets to physical NIC(eth0)
veth:(172.17.0.2/24)
bridge:(172.17.0.1/24)
eth0:(192.168.156.66/24)

eth1(172.17.0.2/24)
bridge1:(172.17.0.1/24)
eth0:(192.168.156.88/24)

after set default route��?snat��?dnat. we can have a tests
to get the performance results.

packets send from veth to veth1:
af_xdp test tool:
link:https://github.com/cclinuxer/libxudp
send:(veth)
./objs/xudpperf send --dst 192.168.156.88:6002 -l 1300
recv:(veth1)
./objs/xudpperf recv --src 172.17.0.2:6002

udp test tool:iperf3
send:(veth)
iperf3 -c 192.168.156.88 -p 6002 -l 1300 -b 60G -u

Should be: '-b 0' otherwise you will experience additional overhead.

And you would likely pin processes and irqs to ensure BH and US run on
different cores of the same numa node.

Cheers,

Paolo