[Xen-devel] [RFC 0/2] [NET]: Add scatter and gather support

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi:

The following patches add scatter-and-gather support in the domU => dom0
direction.  This is a precursor to adding TSO in the same direction.  If
everyone's happy with this approach then it's trivial to do the same
thing for the opposite direction.

SG support is required to support skb's larger than one page.  This
in turn is needed for either jumbo MTU or TSO.  One of these is
required to bring local networking performance up to a level that
is acceptable.

Testing SG support without TSO is a bit tricky because the xen bridge
won't pass any packets larger than the MTU of all its constituents.
The easiest way to test it is to add an address to the xenbr0 interface
and a route with a specific advmss.

On the frontend:

# ifconfig eth0 x.y.z.u netmask 255.255.255.0 mtu 16436

On the backend:

# ip a a dev xenbr0 x.y.z.v/32
# ip r a x.y.z.u dev xenbr0 advmss 16396

This should get you going.  Now for some numbers:

netperf -t TCP_STREAM -H x.y.z.u -- -s 65536,65536 -S 65536,65536

baseline:        778.96Mb/s
mtu=16436:      2815.60Mb/s
mtu=60040:      4410.02Mb/s

lo(16436):      5508.34Mb/s
lo(60040):      8508.91Mb/s

Don't pay too much attention to the absolute numbers, it's a fairly
modest laptop.  However, the rate of increase is self-evident.

I'll post a set of TSO patches soon.

Cheers,
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