Back when tcp_tso_autosize() and TCP pacing were introduced,
our focus was really to reduce burst sizes for long distance
flows.
The simple heuristic of using sk_pacing_rate/1024 has worked
well, but can lead to too small packets for hosts in the same
rack/cluster, when thousands of flows compete for the bottleneck.
Neal Cardwell had the idea of making the TSO burst size
a function of both sk_pacing_rate and tcp_min_rtt()
Indeed, for local flows, sending bigger bursts is better
to reduce cpu costs, as occasional losses can be repaired
quite fast.
This patch is based on Neal Cardwell implementation
done more than two years ago.
bbr is adjusting max_pacing_rate based on measured bandwidth,
while cubic would over estimate max_pacing_rate.
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tso_rtt_log can be used to tune or disable
this new feature, in logarithmic steps.
Tested:
100Gbit NIC, two hosts in the same rack, 4K MTU.
600 flows rate-limited to 20000000 bytes per second.
Before patch: (TSO sizes would be limited to 20000000/1024/4096 -> 4 segments per TSO)
~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tso_rtt_log
~# nstat -n;perf stat ./super_netperf 600 -H otrv6 -l 20 -- -K dctcp -q 20000000;nstat|egrep "TcpInSegs|TcpOutSegs|TcpRetransSegs|Delivered"
96005
Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 600 -H otrv6 -l 20 -- -K dctcp -q 20000000':
65,945.29 msec task-clock # 2.845 CPUs utilized
1,314,632 context-switches # 19935.279 M/sec
5,292 cpu-migrations # 80.249 M/sec
940,641 page-faults # 14264.023 M/sec
201,117,030,926 cycles # 3049769.216 GHz (83.45%)
17,699,435,405 stalled-cycles-frontend # 8.80% frontend cycles idle (83.48%)
136,584,015,071 stalled-cycles-backend # 67.91% backend cycles idle (83.44%)
53,809,530,436 instructions # 0.27 insn per cycle
# 2.54 stalled cycles per insn (83.36%)
9,062,315,523 branches # 137422329.563 M/sec (83.22%)
153,008,621 branch-misses # 1.69% of all branches (83.32%)
23.182970846 seconds time elapsed
TcpInSegs 15648792 0.0
TcpOutSegs 58659110 0.0 # Average of 3.7 4K segments per TSO packet
TcpExtTCPDelivered 58654791 0.0
TcpExtTCPDeliveredCE 19 0.0
After patch:
~# echo 9 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tso_rtt_log
~# nstat -n;perf stat ./super_netperf 600 -H otrv6 -l 20 -- -K dctcp -q 20000000;nstat|egrep "TcpInSegs|TcpOutSegs|TcpRetransSegs|Delivered"
96046
Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 600 -H otrv6 -l 20 -- -K dctcp -q 20000000':
48,982.58 msec task-clock # 2.104 CPUs utilized
186,014 context-switches # 3797.599 M/sec
3,109 cpu-migrations # 63.472 M/sec
941,180 page-faults # 19214.814 M/sec
153,459,763,868 cycles # 3132982.807 GHz (83.56%)
12,069,861,356 stalled-cycles-frontend # 7.87% frontend cycles idle (83.32%)
120,485,917,953 stalled-cycles-backend # 78.51% backend cycles idle (83.24%)
36,803,672,106 instructions # 0.24 insn per cycle
# 3.27 stalled cycles per insn (83.18%)
5,947,266,275 branches # 121417383.427 M/sec (83.64%)
87,984,616 branch-misses # 1.48% of all branches (83.43%)
23.281200256 seconds time elapsed
TcpInSegs 1434706 0.0
TcpOutSegs 58883378 0.0 # Average of 41 4K segments per TSO packet
TcpExtTCPDelivered 58878971 0.0
TcpExtTCPDeliveredCE 9664 0.0
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220309015757.2532973-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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