From c9bee3b7fdecb0c1d070c7b54113b3bdfb9a3d36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 20:27:07 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tcp: TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option Idea of this patch is to add optional limitation of number of unsent bytes in TCP sockets, to reduce usage of kernel memory. TCP receiver might announce a big window, and TCP sender autotuning might allow a large amount of bytes in write queue, but this has little performance impact if a large part of this buffering is wasted : Write queue needs to be large only to deal with large BDP, not necessarily to cope with scheduling delays (incoming ACKS make room for the application to queue more bytes) For most workloads, using a value of 128 KB or less is OK to give applications enough time to react to POLLOUT events in time (or being awaken in a blocking sendmsg()) This patch adds two ways to set the limit : 1) Per socket option TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT 2) A sysctl (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat) for sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option (or setting a zero value) Default value being UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF), meaning this has no effect. This changes poll()/select()/epoll() to report POLLOUT only if number of unsent bytes is below tp->nosent_lowat Note this might increase number of sendmsg()/sendfile() calls when using non blocking sockets, and increase number of context switches for blocking sockets. Note this is not related to SO_SNDLOWAT (as SO_SNDLOWAT is defined as : Specify the minimum number of bytes in the buffer until the socket layer will pass the data to the protocol) Tested: netperf sessions, and watching /proc/net/protocols "memory" column for TCP With 200 concurrent netperf -t TCP_STREAM sessions, amount of kernel memory used by TCP buffers shrinks by ~55 % (20567 pages instead of 45458) lpq83:~# echo -1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat lpq83:~# (super_netperf 200 -t TCP_STREAM -H remote -l 90 &); sleep 60 ; grep TCP /proc/net/protocols TCPv6 1880 2 45458 no 208 yes ipv6 y y y y y y y y y y y y y n y y y y y TCP 1696 508 45458 no 208 yes kernel y y y y y y y y y y y y y n y y y y y lpq83:~# echo 131072 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat lpq83:~# (super_netperf 200 -t TCP_STREAM -H remote -l 90 &); sleep 60 ; grep TCP /proc/net/protocols TCPv6 1880 2 20567 no 208 yes ipv6 y y y y y y y y y y y y y n y y y y y TCP 1696 508 20567 no 208 yes kernel y y y y y y y y y y y y y n y y y y y Using 128KB has no bad effect on the throughput or cpu usage of a single flow, although there is an increase of context switches. A bonus is that we hold socket lock for a shorter amount of time and should improve latencies of ACK processing. lpq83:~# echo -1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat lpq83:~# perf stat -e context-switches ./netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3 OMNI Send TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : +/-2.500% @ 99% conf. Local Remote Local Elapsed Throughput Throughput Local Local Remote Remote Local Remote Service Send Socket Recv Socket Send Time Units CPU CPU CPU CPU Service Service Demand Size Size Size (sec) Util Util Util Util Demand Demand Units Final Final % Method % Method 1651584 6291456 16384 20.00 17447.90 10^6bits/s 3.13 S -1.00 U 0.353 -1.000 usec/KB Performance counter stats for './netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3': 412,514 context-switches 200.034645535 seconds time elapsed lpq83:~# echo 131072 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat lpq83:~# perf stat -e context-switches ./netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3 OMNI Send TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : +/-2.500% @ 99% conf. Local Remote Local Elapsed Throughput Throughput Local Local Remote Remote Local Remote Service Send Socket Recv Socket Send Time Units CPU CPU CPU CPU Service Service Demand Size Size Size (sec) Util Util Util Util Demand Demand Units Final Final % Method % Method 1593240 6291456 16384 20.00 17321.16 10^6bits/s 3.35 S -1.00 U 0.381 -1.000 usec/KB Performance counter stats for './netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3': 2,675,818 context-switches 200.029651391 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Neal Cardwell Cc: Yuchung Cheng Acked-By: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ include/linux/tcp.h | 1 + include/net/sock.h | 19 +++++++++++++------ include/net/tcp.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ include/uapi/linux/tcp.h | 1 + net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 7 +++++++ net/ipv4/tcp.c | 7 +++++++ net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 1 + net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 3 +++ net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 1 + 10 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 10742902146f..53cea9bcb14c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -516,6 +516,19 @@ tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max this value is ignored. Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size. +tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER + A TCP socket can control the amount of unsent bytes in its write queue, + thanks to TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. poll()/select()/epoll() + reports POLLOUT events if the amount of unsent bytes is below a per + socket value, and if the write queue is not full. sendmsg() will + also not add new buffers if the limit is hit. + + This global variable controls the amount of unsent data for + sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT. For these sockets, a change + to the global variable has immediate effect. + + Default: UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF) + tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity. diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h index 472120b4fac5..9640803a17a7 100644 --- a/include/linux/tcp.h +++ b/include/linux/tcp.h @@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ struct tcp_sock { u32 rcv_wnd; /* Current receiver window */ u32 write_seq; /* Tail(+1) of data held in tcp send buffer */ + u32 notsent_lowat; /* TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT */ u32 pushed_seq; /* Last pushed seq, required to talk to windows */ u32 lost_out; /* Lost packets */ u32 sacked_out; /* SACK'd packets */ diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h index d0b5fdee50a2..b9f2b095b1ab 100644 --- a/include/net/sock.h +++ b/include/net/sock.h @@ -746,11 +746,6 @@ static inline int sk_stream_wspace(const struct sock *sk) extern void sk_stream_write_space(struct sock *sk); -static inline bool sk_stream_memory_free(const struct sock *sk) -{ - return sk->sk_wmem_queued < sk->sk_sndbuf; -} - /* OOB backlog add */ static inline void __sk_add_backlog(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb) { @@ -950,6 +945,7 @@ struct proto { unsigned int inuse_idx; #endif + bool (*stream_memory_free)(const struct sock *sk); /* Memory pressure */ void (*enter_memory_pressure)(struct sock *sk); atomic_long_t *memory_allocated; /* Current allocated memory. */ @@ -1088,11 +1084,22 @@ static inline struct cg_proto *parent_cg_proto(struct proto *proto, } #endif +static inline bool sk_stream_memory_free(const struct sock *sk) +{ + if (sk->sk_wmem_queued >= sk->sk_sndbuf) + return false; + + return sk->sk_prot->stream_memory_free ? + sk->sk_prot->stream_memory_free(sk) : true; +} + static inline bool sk_stream_is_writeable(const struct sock *sk) { - return sk_stream_wspace(sk) >= sk_stream_min_wspace(sk); + return sk_stream_wspace(sk) >= sk_stream_min_wspace(sk) && + sk_stream_memory_free(sk); } + static inline bool sk_has_memory_pressure(const struct sock *sk) { return sk->sk_prot->memory_pressure != NULL; diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h index c5868471abae..18fc999dae3c 100644 --- a/include/net/tcp.h +++ b/include/net/tcp.h @@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ extern int sysctl_tcp_thin_dupack; extern int sysctl_tcp_early_retrans; extern int sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes; extern int sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit; +extern unsigned int sysctl_tcp_notsent_lowat; extern atomic_long_t tcp_memory_allocated; extern struct percpu_counter tcp_sockets_allocated; @@ -1539,6 +1540,19 @@ extern int tcp_gro_complete(struct sk_buff *skb); extern void __tcp_v4_send_check(struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 saddr, __be32 daddr); +static inline u32 tcp_notsent_lowat(const struct tcp_sock *tp) +{ + return tp->notsent_lowat ?: sysctl_tcp_notsent_lowat; +} + +static inline bool tcp_stream_memory_free(const struct sock *sk) +{ + const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk); + u32 notsent_bytes = tp->write_seq - tp->snd_nxt; + + return notsent_bytes < tcp_notsent_lowat(tp); +} + #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS extern int tcp4_proc_init(void); extern void tcp4_proc_exit(void); diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/tcp.h b/include/uapi/linux/tcp.h index 8d776ebc4829..377f1e59411d 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/tcp.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/tcp.h @@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ enum { #define TCP_REPAIR_OPTIONS 22 #define TCP_FASTOPEN 23 /* Enable FastOpen on listeners */ #define TCP_TIMESTAMP 24 +#define TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT 25 /* limit number of unsent bytes in write queue */ struct tcp_repair_opt { __u32 opt_code; diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c index b2c123c44d69..69ed203802da 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c @@ -554,6 +554,13 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_table[] = { .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, .extra1 = &one, }, + { + .procname = "tcp_notsent_lowat", + .data = &sysctl_tcp_notsent_lowat, + .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_tcp_notsent_lowat), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + }, { .procname = "tcp_rmem", .data = &sysctl_tcp_rmem, diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c index 5eca9060bb8e..c27e81392398 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -2631,6 +2631,10 @@ static int do_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, else tp->tsoffset = val - tcp_time_stamp; break; + case TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT: + tp->notsent_lowat = val; + sk->sk_write_space(sk); + break; default: err = -ENOPROTOOPT; break; @@ -2847,6 +2851,9 @@ static int do_tcp_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, case TCP_TIMESTAMP: val = tcp_time_stamp + tp->tsoffset; break; + case TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT: + val = tp->notsent_lowat; + break; default: return -ENOPROTOOPT; } diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c index 2e3f129df0eb..2a5d5c469d17 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c @@ -2800,6 +2800,7 @@ struct proto tcp_prot = { .unhash = inet_unhash, .get_port = inet_csk_get_port, .enter_memory_pressure = tcp_enter_memory_pressure, + .stream_memory_free = tcp_stream_memory_free, .sockets_allocated = &tcp_sockets_allocated, .orphan_count = &tcp_orphan_count, .memory_allocated = &tcp_memory_allocated, diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index 92fde8d1aa82..884efff5b531 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ int sysctl_tcp_base_mss __read_mostly = TCP_BASE_MSS; /* By default, RFC2861 behavior. */ int sysctl_tcp_slow_start_after_idle __read_mostly = 1; +unsigned int sysctl_tcp_notsent_lowat __read_mostly = UINT_MAX; +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_tcp_notsent_lowat); + static bool tcp_write_xmit(struct sock *sk, unsigned int mss_now, int nonagle, int push_one, gfp_t gfp); diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c index 80fe69ef2188..b792e870686b 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c +++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c @@ -1924,6 +1924,7 @@ struct proto tcpv6_prot = { .unhash = inet_unhash, .get_port = inet_csk_get_port, .enter_memory_pressure = tcp_enter_memory_pressure, + .stream_memory_free = tcp_stream_memory_free, .sockets_allocated = &tcp_sockets_allocated, .memory_allocated = &tcp_memory_allocated, .memory_pressure = &tcp_memory_pressure, -- 2.20.1