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Currently, tcp sendmsg(MSG_ZEROCOPY) is building skbs with order-0 fragments. Compared to standard sendmsg(), these skbs usually contain up to 16 fragments on arches with 4KB page sizes, instead of two. This adds considerable costs on various ndo_start_xmit() handlers, especially when IOMMU is in the picture. As high performance applications are often using huge pages, we can try to combine adjacent pages belonging to same compound page. Tested on AMD Rome platform, with IOMMU, nominal single TCP flow speed is roughly doubled (~55Gbit -> ~100Gbit), when user application is using hugepages. For reference, nominal single TCP flow speed on this platform without MSG_ZEROCOPY is ~65Gbit. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.