2018-04-08 18:51 GMT+02:00 David Miller <da...@davemloft.net>: > > From: Wenhua Shi <march...@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 03:43:39 +0200 > > > Signed-off-by: Wenhua Shi <march...@gmail.com> > > This precondition should be made impossible instead of having to do > an extra check everywhere that this helper is invoked, many of which > are in fast paths.
I believe the precondition you said is quite true. In my situation, I have to disable GSO for some packet and I notice that it leads to a worse performance (slower than 1Mbps, was almost 800Mbps). Here's the hook I use on debian 9.4, kernel version 4.9: #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/netfilter.h> #include <linux/netfilter_ipv4.h> #include <linux/netfilter_ipv6.h> #include <linux/skbuff.h> #include <linux/tcp.h> #include <linux/ip.h> unsigned int hook_outgoing ( void * priv, struct sk_buff * skb, const struct nf_hook_state * state) { /* for some reason I have to disable GSO */ skb_gso_reset(skb); /* After I force sk_can_gso to return false here, the performance comes back normal. */ // skb->sk->sk_gso_type = ~0; return NF_ACCEPT; } static struct nf_hook_ops hook = { .hook = hook_outgoing, .pf = PF_INET, .hooknum = NF_INET_POST_ROUTING, .priority = NF_IP_PRI_LAST, }; static int __init init_testing(void) { nf_register_hook(&hook); return 0; } static void __exit exit_testing(void) { nf_unregister_hook(&hook); } module_init(init_testing); module_exit(exit_testing); Here are the performance measurements. Without the previous hook: root@debian-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo1-01:~/test# iperf -c myanothernormaldebian -d ------------------------------------------------------------ Server listening on TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to myanothernormaldebian, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 255 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 192.241.204.XXX port 60528 connected with 104.131.148.XXX port 5001 [ 5] local 192.241.204.XXX port 5001 connected with 104.131.148.XXX port 58576 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 922 MBytes 773 Mbits/sec [ 5] 0.0-10.1 sec 1.00 GBytes 849 Mbits/sec And with the previous hook: root@debian-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo1-01:~/test# iperf -c myanothernormaldebian -d ------------------------------------------------------------ Server listening on TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to myanothernormaldebian, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 192.241.204.XXX port 60530 connected with 104.131.148.XXX port 5001 [ 5] local 192.241.204.XXX port 5001 connected with 104.131.148.XXX port 58578 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 5] 0.0-10.2 sec 1.02 GBytes 864 Mbits/sec [ 3] 0.0-13.5 sec 170 KBytes 103 Kbits/sec Or it's just because of that I'm disabling the GSO in a wrong way?