From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.129.124]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CEB8214B96E for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2025 06:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=170.10.129.124 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1737526588; cv=none; b=Ck0FRQ13+8m6h4HcHYDAN+ZoIfl4N1uEyJ5NLTi3lW05pxPC+YgMrZWpR628jJJTfzdXFl7Tfi8dpbKKg9MEls+rKrG7/LGgA1odWYwqR4b8N0vuNCqHZSVtRshHpAWH8ZiLBOI2tsVG0STBB/6p0w30muSEBJ/xxl4J2NeYqPw= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1737526588; c=relaxed/simple; bh=5uxtqZMfHCev+JG6XrIgLTHL5fLil3E67cwwPRm0LA0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=S4tVUef4gSHUHYH9sDRKDaYgjPt/508w2l3t9BLDjaCbGnuv1febUe/7PKJp45XDQ2hMMiI5TeHdrC3b/VYjM92hSRsHlpCbYpzUAuxIuLHHxdxmnfLIYwZjxMzZrfYQHI+iNumQ13faSSE8wYQ4dzJcAC6R9HLXO59lj39KbLQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b=TqCuHs3e; arc=none smtp.client-ip=170.10.129.124 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="TqCuHs3e" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1737526585; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hr9kjAOl5Zo07A2Y7Yx2gYOn95HiryxvxLZNJycD00I=; b=TqCuHs3eFB6OMF0nbdmhFRMsFx6wVOJTcwX+zgkPPmH/40LaEBk6OIsnbSsJq5ZzaIr5bK 2ShlErCwInVqNcISgqX2MO+HZ8/1jpowWV3KlZRfF2+mLHXqjIxmIebtb+8uwvo16DUyml SDSrYTqfn9UXdFQmg7pNlLL9fPhnynM= Received: from mx-prod-mc-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (ec2-54-186-198-63.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com [54.186.198.63]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-63-0wK6emrzNx-ouvt_v_isJQ-1; Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:16:21 -0500 X-MC-Unique: 0wK6emrzNx-ouvt_v_isJQ-1 X-Mimecast-MFC-AGG-ID: 0wK6emrzNx-ouvt_v_isJQ Received: from mx-prod-int-02.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (mx-prod-int-02.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com [10.30.177.15]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mx-prod-mc-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 69BCA19560B8; Wed, 22 Jan 2025 06:16:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [10.72.112.209]) by mx-prod-int-02.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FAC3195608A; Wed, 22 Jan 2025 06:16:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Jason Wang To: mst@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com, eperezma@redhat.com Cc: andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, virtualization@lists.linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH net-next RFC 0/2] don't clean packets in start_xmit in TX NAPI mode Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:15:58 +0800 Message-ID: <20250122061600.16781-1-jasowang@redhat.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.0 on 10.30.177.15 Hi all: This is an RFC to try to speed up TX by avoid cleaning transmitted packets in start_xmit() when TX NAPI mode is enabled. This increase 25%-62% PPS depending on the setups while keeping the TCP throughput. More numbers could be seen in patch 2. Thanks Jason Wang (2): virtio-net: factor out logic for stopping TX virtio-net: free old xmit skbs only in NAPI drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) -- 2.34.1