linux/net/core
Eric Dumazet a74f0fa082 tcp: reduce POLLOUT events caused by TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT
TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option or sysctl was added in linux-3.12
as a step to enable bigger tcp sndbuf limits.

It works reasonably well, but the following happens :

Once the limit is reached, TCP stack generates
an [E]POLLOUT event for every incoming ACK packet.

This causes a high number of context switches.

This patch implements the strategy David Miller added
in sock_def_write_space() :

 - If TCP socket has a notsent_lowat constraint of X bytes,
   allow sendmsg() to fill up to X bytes, but send [E]POLLOUT
   only if number of notsent bytes is below X/2

This considerably reduces TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT overhead,
while allowing to keep the pipe full.

Tested:
 100 ms RTT netem testbed between A and B, 100 concurrent TCP_STREAM

A:/# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem
4096	262144	64000000
A:/# super_netperf 100 -H B -l 1000 -- -K bbr &

A:/# grep TCP /proc/net/sockstat
TCP: inuse 203 orphan 0 tw 19 alloc 414 mem 1364904 # This is about 54 MB of memory per flow :/

A:/# vmstat 5 5
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu-----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 0  0      0 256220672  13532 694976    0    0    10     0   28   14  0  1 99  0  0
 2  0      0 256320016  13532 698480    0    0   512     0 715901 5927  0 10 90  0  0
 0  0      0 256197232  13532 700992    0    0   735    13 771161 5849  0 11 89  0  0
 1  0      0 256233824  13532 703320    0    0   512    23 719650 6635  0 11 89  0  0
 2  0      0 256226880  13532 705780    0    0   642     4 775650 6009  0 12 88  0  0

A:/# echo 2097152 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat

A:/# grep TCP /proc/net/sockstat
TCP: inuse 203 orphan 0 tw 19 alloc 414 mem 86411 # 3.5 MB per flow

A:/# vmstat 5 5  # check that context switches have not inflated too much.
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu-----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 2  0      0 260386512  13592 662148    0    0    10     0   17   14  0  1 99  0  0
 0  0      0 260519680  13592 604184    0    0   512    13 726843 12424  0 10 90  0  0
 1  1      0 260435424  13592 598360    0    0   512    25 764645 12925  0 10 90  0  0
 1  0      0 260855392  13592 578380    0    0   512     7 722943 13624  0 11 88  0  0
 1  0      0 260445008  13592 601176    0    0   614    34 772288 14317  0 10 90  0  0

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-12-04 21:21:18 -08:00
..
datagram.c net: dump more useful information in netdev_rx_csum_fault() 2018-11-15 11:37:04 -08:00
dev_addr_lists.c net: core: dev_addr_lists: add auxiliary func to handle reference address updates 2018-11-08 20:30:57 -08:00
dev_ioctl.c net: remove redundant input checks in SIOCSIFTXQLEN case of dev_ifsioc 2018-07-24 11:36:15 -07:00
dev.c net: Add trace events for all receive exit points 2018-11-30 13:23:25 -08:00
devlink.c devlink: Add 'fw_load_policy' generic parameter 2018-12-03 13:55:43 -08:00
drop_monitor.c treewide: setup_timer() -> timer_setup() 2017-11-21 15:57:07 -08:00
dst_cache.c net: core: dst_cache_set_ip6: Rename 'addr' parameter to 'saddr' for consistency 2018-03-05 12:52:45 -05:00
dst.c netfilter: nf_tables: add tunnel support 2018-08-03 21:12:12 +02:00
ethtool.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-10-19 11:03:06 -07:00
failover.c net: Introduce generic failover module 2018-05-28 22:59:54 -04:00
fib_notifier.c net: Fix fib notifer to return errno 2018-03-29 14:10:30 -04:00
fib_rules.c net/fib_rules: Update fib_nl_dumprule for strict data checking 2018-10-08 10:39:05 -07:00
filter.c bpf: helper to pop data from messages 2018-11-28 22:07:57 +01:00
flow_dissector.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-11-11 17:57:54 -08:00
gen_estimator.c net: core: protect rate estimator statistics pointer with lock 2018-08-11 12:37:10 -07:00
gen_stats.c net/core: make function ___gnet_stats_copy_basic() static 2018-09-28 10:25:11 -07:00
gro_cells.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
hwbm.c
link_watch.c net: linkwatch: add check for netdevice being present to linkwatch_do_dev 2018-09-19 21:06:46 -07:00
lwt_bpf.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2018-08-07 11:02:05 -07:00
lwtunnel.c ipv6: sr: define core operations for seg6local lightweight tunnel 2017-08-07 14:16:22 -07:00
Makefile bpf, sockmap: convert to generic sk_msg interface 2018-10-15 12:23:19 -07:00
neighbour.c net/neigh: fix NULL deref in pneigh_dump_table() 2018-10-26 16:03:51 -07:00
net_namespace.c netns: enable to dump full nsid translation table 2018-11-27 16:20:20 -08:00
net-procfs.c proc: introduce proc_create_net{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:24:30 +02:00
net-sysfs.c net: allow to call netif_reset_xps_queues() under cpus_read_lock 2018-08-09 14:25:06 -07:00
net-sysfs.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
net-traces.c net/ipv6: Udate fib6_table_lookup tracepoint 2018-05-24 23:01:15 -04:00
netclassid_cgroup.c cgroup, netclassid: add a preemption point to write_classid 2018-10-23 12:58:17 -07:00
netevent.c
netpoll.c net: core: netpoll: Enable netconsole IPv6 link local address 2018-11-05 17:07:10 -08:00
netprio_cgroup.c net: remove duplicate includes 2017-12-13 13:18:46 -05:00
page_pool.c net/page_pool: Fix inconsistent lock state warning 2018-07-19 23:23:01 -07:00
pktgen.c pktgen: Fix fall-through annotation 2018-09-13 15:36:41 -07:00
ptp_classifier.c
request_sock.c
rtnetlink.c rtnetlink: avoid frame size warning in rtnl_newlink() 2018-11-30 13:33:34 -08:00
scm.c
secure_seq.c infiniband: i40iw, nes: don't use wall time for TCP sequence numbers 2018-07-11 12:10:19 -06:00
skbuff.c skbuff: Rename 'offload_mr_fwd_mark' to 'offload_l3_fwd_mark' 2018-12-04 08:36:36 -08:00
skmsg.c tls: convert to generic sk_msg interface 2018-10-15 12:23:19 -07:00
sock_diag.c net: sock_diag: Fix spectre v1 gadget in __sock_diag_cmd() 2018-08-14 10:01:24 -07:00
sock_map.c bpf: skmsg, fix psock create on existing kcm/tls port 2018-10-20 00:40:45 +02:00
sock_reuseport.c sctp: add sock_reuseport for the sock in __sctp_hash_endpoint 2018-11-12 09:09:51 -08:00
sock.c udp: msg_zerocopy 2018-12-03 15:58:32 -08:00
stream.c tcp: reduce POLLOUT events caused by TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT 2018-12-04 21:21:18 -08:00
sysctl_net_core.c bpf: add bpf_jit_limit knob to restrict unpriv allocations 2018-10-25 17:11:42 -07:00
timestamping.c
tso.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
utils.c net: Remove some unneeded semicolon 2018-08-04 13:05:39 -07:00
xdp.c xdp: remove redundant variable 'headroom' 2018-09-01 01:35:53 +02:00