virtio_net: Do not pull payload in skb->head
Xuan Zhuo reported that commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize
under-estimation for tiny skbs") brought a ~10% performance drop.
The reason for the performance drop was that GRO was forced
to chain sk_buff (using skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list), which
uses more memory but also cause packet consumers to go over
a lot of overhead handling all the tiny skbs.
It turns out that virtio_net page_to_skb() has a wrong strategy :
It allocates skbs with GOOD_COPY_LEN (128) bytes in skb->head, then
copies 128 bytes from the page, before feeding the packet to GRO stack.
This was suboptimal before commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize
under-estimation for tiny skbs") because GRO was using 2 frags per MSS,
meaning we were not packing MSS with 100% efficiency.
Fix is to pull only the ethernet header in page_to_skb()
Then, we change virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() to pull the missing
headers, instead of assuming they were already pulled by callers.
This fixes the performance regression, but could also allow virtio_net
to accept packets with more than 128bytes of headers.
Many thanks to Xuan Zhuo for his report, and his tests/help.
BUG=b/183655476
TEST=presubmit
SOURCE=UPSTREAM(0f6925b3e8da0dbbb52447ca8a8b42b371aac7db)
RELEASE_NOTE=avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs
This reverts commit 6ffbd6030f62a0cf9cc3d2750e0a81843a4df913.
Reason for revert: Reland the changes
cos-patch: bug
Change-Id: I30235007954daa9e37f3abd96b47c64704c8dc39
Reviewed-on: https://cos-review.googlesource.com/c/third_party/kernel/+/17372
Reviewed-by: Oleksandr Tymoshenko <ovt@google.com>
Tested-by: Cusky Presubmit Bot <presubmit@cos-infra-prod.iam.gserviceaccount.com>
Main-Branch-Verified: Cusky Presubmit Bot <presubmit@cos-infra-prod.iam.gserviceaccount.com>
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