Re: [PATCH] This extends tx_data and and iscsit_do_tx_data with theadditional parameter flags and avoids sending multiple TCP packets iniscsit_fe_sendpage_sg

From: Nicholas A. Bellinger
Date: Mon Feb 10 2014 - 13:56:04 EST


Hi Eric & Thomas,

On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 04:30 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 08:42 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > The new infrastructure is used in iscsit_fe_sendpage_sg to avoid sending three
> > TCP packets instead of one by settings the MSG_MORE when calling kernel_sendmsg
> > via the wrapper functions tx_data and iscsit_do_tx_data. This reduces the TCP
> > overhead by sending the same data in less TCP packets and minimized the TCP RTP
> > when TCP auto corking is enabled. When creating a 500 GB VMFS filesystem the
> > filesystem is created in 3 seconds instead of 4 seconds.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > X-tested-by: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Hmm, thanks but this is not how to do this.
>
> When you submit a patch written by someone else, you should :
>
> 1) Use your own identity as the sender, not impersonate me.
> ( thats standard convention )
>
> 2) Put following line as first line of the mail
> ( Documentation/SubmittingPatches lines ~565)
>
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Then I'll add my :
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Anyway, patch is not yet complete : We also want to set
> MSG_MORE/MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST for all pages but last one in a sg list.
>
>
> This will fix suboptimal traffic :
>
> 13:32:04.976923 IP 10.101.99.5.3260 > 10.101.0.12.43418: Flags [.], seq 289953:292849, ack 45792, win 795, options [nop,nop,TS val 4294914045 ecr 1577012], length 2896
> 13:32:04.976936 IP 10.101.99.5.3260 > 10.101.0.12.43418: Flags [.], seq 292849:295745, ack 45792, win 795, options [nop,nop,TS val 4294914045 ecr 1577012], length 2896
> 13:32:04.976944 IP 10.101.99.5.3260 > 10.101.0.12.43418: Flags [P.], seq 295745:298193, ack 45792, win 795, options [nop,nop,TS val 4294914045 ecr 1577012], length 2448
> 13:32:04.976952 IP 10.101.99.5.3260 > 10.101.0.12.43418: Flags [.], seq 298193:301089, ack 45792, win 795, options [nop,nop,TS val 4294914045 ecr 1577012], length 2896
> 13:32:04.976960 IP 10.101.99.5.3260 > 10.101.0.12.43418: Flags [.], seq 301089:303985, ack 45792, win 795, options [nop,nop,TS val 4294914045 ecr 1577012], length 2896
> 13:32:04.976998 IP 10.101.99.5.3260 > 10.101.0.12.43418: Flags [P.], seq 303985:306385, ack 45792, win 795, options [nop,nop,TS val 4294914045 ecr 1577012], length 2400
>
> Please try following updated patch, thanks !
>
> Once tested, we'll submit it formally.
>
> drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c | 2
> drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c | 38 +++++++++------
> drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.h | 2
> 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>

This looks correct to me..

Thomas, once your able to confirm please include your 'Tested-by' and
I'll include for the next -rc3 PULL request.

Thanks!

--nab

> diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c
> index 4d2e23fc76fd..b80239250a1c 100644
> --- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c
> +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c
> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ int iscsi_login_tx_data(
> */
> conn->if_marker += length;
>
> - tx_sent = tx_data(conn, &iov[0], iov_cnt, length);
> + tx_sent = tx_data(conn, &iov[0], iov_cnt, length, 0);
> if (tx_sent != length) {
> pr_err("tx_data returned %d, expecting %d.\n",
> tx_sent, length);
> diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c
> index 0819e688a398..3c529f7c61ce 100644
> --- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c
> +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c
> @@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@ send_data:
> iov_count = cmd->iov_misc_count;
> }
>
> - tx_sent = tx_data(conn, &iov[0], iov_count, tx_size);
> + tx_sent = tx_data(conn, &iov[0], iov_count, tx_size, 0);
> if (tx_size != tx_sent) {
> if (tx_sent == -EAGAIN) {
> pr_err("tx_data() returned -EAGAIN\n");
> @@ -1196,7 +1196,8 @@ send_hdr:
> iov.iov_base = cmd->pdu;
> iov.iov_len = tx_hdr_size;
>
> - tx_sent = tx_data(conn, &iov, 1, tx_hdr_size);
> + tx_sent = tx_data(conn, &iov, 1, tx_hdr_size,
> + cmd->tx_size != tx_hdr_size ? MSG_MORE : 0);
> if (tx_hdr_size != tx_sent) {
> if (tx_sent == -EAGAIN) {
> pr_err("tx_data() returned -EAGAIN\n");
> @@ -1225,18 +1226,24 @@ send_hdr:
> while (data_len) {
> u32 space = (sg->length - offset);
> u32 sub_len = min_t(u32, data_len, space);
> + int flags = 0;
> +
> + if ((data_len != sub_len) || cmd->padding ||
> + conn->conn_ops->DataDigest)
> + flags = MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST | MSG_MORE;
> +
> send_pg:
> tx_sent = conn->sock->ops->sendpage(conn->sock,
> - sg_page(sg), sg->offset + offset, sub_len, 0);
> + sg_page(sg),
> + sg->offset + offset,
> + sub_len, flags);
> if (tx_sent != sub_len) {
> if (tx_sent == -EAGAIN) {
> - pr_err("tcp_sendpage() returned"
> - " -EAGAIN\n");
> + pr_err("tcp_sendpage() returned -EAGAIN\n");
> goto send_pg;
> }
>
> - pr_err("tcp_sendpage() failure: %d\n",
> - tx_sent);
> + pr_err("tcp_sendpage() failure: %d\n", tx_sent);
> return -1;
> }
>
> @@ -1249,7 +1256,8 @@ send_padding:
> if (cmd->padding) {
> struct kvec *iov_p = &cmd->iov_data[iov_off++];
>
> - tx_sent = tx_data(conn, iov_p, 1, cmd->padding);
> + tx_sent = tx_data(conn, iov_p, 1, cmd->padding,
> + conn->conn_ops->DataDigest ? MSG_MORE : 0);
> if (cmd->padding != tx_sent) {
> if (tx_sent == -EAGAIN) {
> pr_err("tx_data() returned -EAGAIN\n");
> @@ -1263,7 +1271,7 @@ send_datacrc:
> if (conn->conn_ops->DataDigest) {
> struct kvec *iov_d = &cmd->iov_data[iov_off];
>
> - tx_sent = tx_data(conn, iov_d, 1, ISCSI_CRC_LEN);
> + tx_sent = tx_data(conn, iov_d, 1, ISCSI_CRC_LEN, 0);
> if (ISCSI_CRC_LEN != tx_sent) {
> if (tx_sent == -EAGAIN) {
> pr_err("tx_data() returned -EAGAIN\n");
> @@ -1349,11 +1357,12 @@ static int iscsit_do_rx_data(
>
> static int iscsit_do_tx_data(
> struct iscsi_conn *conn,
> - struct iscsi_data_count *count)
> + struct iscsi_data_count *count,
> + int flags)
> {
> int data = count->data_length, total_tx = 0, tx_loop = 0, iov_len;
> struct kvec *iov_p;
> - struct msghdr msg;
> + struct msghdr msg = { .msg_flags = flags };
>
> if (!conn || !conn->sock || !conn->conn_ops)
> return -1;
> @@ -1363,8 +1372,6 @@ static int iscsit_do_tx_data(
> return -1;
> }
>
> - memset(&msg, 0, sizeof(struct msghdr));
> -
> iov_p = count->iov;
> iov_len = count->iov_count;
>
> @@ -1408,7 +1415,8 @@ int tx_data(
> struct iscsi_conn *conn,
> struct kvec *iov,
> int iov_count,
> - int data)
> + int data,
> + int flags)
> {
> struct iscsi_data_count c;
>
> @@ -1421,7 +1429,7 @@ int tx_data(
> c.data_length = data;
> c.type = ISCSI_TX_DATA;
>
> - return iscsit_do_tx_data(conn, &c);
> + return iscsit_do_tx_data(conn, &c, flags);
> }
>
> void iscsit_collect_login_stats(
> diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.h b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.h
> index e4fc34a02f57..1b4f06801adc 100644
> --- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.h
> +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.h
> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ extern int iscsit_print_dev_to_proc(char *, char **, off_t, int);
> extern int iscsit_print_sessions_to_proc(char *, char **, off_t, int);
> extern int iscsit_print_tpg_to_proc(char *, char **, off_t, int);
> extern int rx_data(struct iscsi_conn *, struct kvec *, int, int);
> -extern int tx_data(struct iscsi_conn *, struct kvec *, int, int);
> +extern int tx_data(struct iscsi_conn *, struct kvec *, int, int, int);
> extern void iscsit_collect_login_stats(struct iscsi_conn *, u8, u8);
> extern struct iscsi_tiqn *iscsit_snmp_get_tiqn(struct iscsi_conn *);
>
>
>
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