Merge branch 'accurate-memory-charging-for-msg_zerocopy'

Talal Ahmad says:

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Accurate Memory Charging For MSG_ZEROCOPY

This series improves the accuracy of msg_zerocopy memory accounting.
At present, when msg_zerocopy is used memory is charged twice for the
data - once when user space allocates it, and then again within
__zerocopy_sg_from_iter. The memory charging in the kernel is excessive
because data is held in user pages and is never actually copied to skb
fragments. This leads to incorrectly inflated memory statistics for
programs passing MSG_ZEROCOPY.

We reduce this inaccuracy by introducing the notion of "pure" zerocopy
SKBs - where all the frags in the SKB are backed by pinned userspace
pages, and none are backed by copied pages. For such SKBs, tracked via
the new SKBFL_PURE_ZEROCOPY flag, we elide sk_mem_charge/uncharge
calls, leading to more accurate accounting.

However, SKBs can also be coalesced by the stack at present,
potentially leading to "impure" SKBs. We restrict this coalescing so
it can only happen within the sendmsg() system call itself, for the
most recently allocated SKB. While this can lead to a small degree of
double-charging of memory, this case does not arise often in practice
for workloads that set MSG_ZEROCOPY.

Testing verified that memory usage in the kernel is lowered.
Instrumentation with counters also showed that accounting at time
charging and uncharging is balanced.
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211030020542.3870542-1-mailtalalahmad@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 0bd6520329f6..10869906cc57 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -454,9 +454,15 @@ enum {
 	 * all frags to avoid possible bad checksum
 	 */
 	SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG = BIT(1),
+
+	/* segment contains only zerocopy data and should not be
+	 * charged to the kernel memory.
+	 */
+	SKBFL_PURE_ZEROCOPY = BIT(2),
 };
 
 #define SKBFL_ZEROCOPY_FRAG	(SKBFL_ZEROCOPY_ENABLE | SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG)
+#define SKBFL_ALL_ZEROCOPY	(SKBFL_ZEROCOPY_FRAG | SKBFL_PURE_ZEROCOPY)
 
 /*
  * The callback notifies userspace to release buffers when skb DMA is done in
@@ -1464,6 +1470,17 @@ static inline struct ubuf_info *skb_zcopy(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	return is_zcopy ? skb_uarg(skb) : NULL;
 }
 
+static inline bool skb_zcopy_pure(const struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	return skb_shinfo(skb)->flags & SKBFL_PURE_ZEROCOPY;
+}
+
+static inline bool skb_pure_zcopy_same(const struct sk_buff *skb1,
+				       const struct sk_buff *skb2)
+{
+	return skb_zcopy_pure(skb1) == skb_zcopy_pure(skb2);
+}
+
 static inline void net_zcopy_get(struct ubuf_info *uarg)
 {
 	refcount_inc(&uarg->refcnt);
@@ -1528,7 +1545,7 @@ static inline void skb_zcopy_clear(struct sk_buff *skb, bool zerocopy_success)
 		if (!skb_zcopy_is_nouarg(skb))
 			uarg->callback(skb, uarg, zerocopy_success);
 
-		skb_shinfo(skb)->flags &= ~SKBFL_ZEROCOPY_FRAG;
+		skb_shinfo(skb)->flags &= ~SKBFL_ALL_ZEROCOPY;
 	}
 }