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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-03-28 13:45:52 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-03-28 13:45:52 -0700 |
commit | ca0b04ba0b35d48e1473a280c2e8905e7f80e906 (patch) | |
tree | b1a7341c792b0df56bb5e947affd6735d01c64c8 /Documentation | |
parent | 15cb9a2b66fc623843c68bd508e2731782ae6570 (diff) | |
parent | 89baa22d75278b69d3a30f86c3f47ac3a3a659e9 (diff) |
Merge tag 'for-6.15/io_uring-rx-zc-20250325' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux
Pull io_uring zero-copy receive support from Jens Axboe:
"This adds support for zero-copy receive with io_uring, enabling fast
bulk receive of data directly into application memory, rather than
needing to copy the data out of kernel memory.
While this version only supports host memory as that was the initial
target, other memory types are planned as well, with notably GPU
memory coming next.
This work depends on some networking components which were queued up
on the networking side, but have now landed in your tree.
This is the work of Pavel Begunkov and David Wei. From the v14 posting:
'We configure a page pool that a driver uses to fill a hw rx queue
to hand out user pages instead of kernel pages. Any data that ends
up hitting this hw rx queue will thus be dma'd into userspace
memory directly, without needing to be bounced through kernel
memory. 'Reading' data out of a socket instead becomes a
_notification_ mechanism, where the kernel tells userspace where
the data is. The overall approach is similar to the devmem TCP
proposal
This relies on hw header/data split, flow steering and RSS to
ensure packet headers remain in kernel memory and only desired
flows hit a hw rx queue configured for zero copy. Configuring this
is outside of the scope of this patchset.
We share netdev core infra with devmem TCP. The main difference is
that io_uring is used for the uAPI and the lifetime of all objects
are bound to an io_uring instance. Data is 'read' using a new
io_uring request type. When done, data is returned via a new shared
refill queue. A zero copy page pool refills a hw rx queue from this
refill queue directly. Of course, the lifetime of these data
buffers are managed by io_uring rather than the networking stack,
with different refcounting rules.
This patchset is the first step adding basic zero copy support. We
will extend this iteratively with new features e.g. dynamically
allocated zero copy areas, THP support, dmabuf support, improved
copy fallback, general optimisations and more'
In a local setup, I was able to saturate a 200G link with a single CPU
core, and at netdev conf 0x19 earlier this month, Jamal reported
188Gbit of bandwidth using a single core (no HT, including soft-irq).
Safe to say the efficiency is there, as bigger links would be needed
to find the per-core limit, and it's considerably more efficient and
faster than the existing devmem solution"
* tag 'for-6.15/io_uring-rx-zc-20250325' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux:
io_uring/zcrx: add selftest case for recvzc with read limit
io_uring/zcrx: add a read limit to recvzc requests
io_uring: add missing IORING_MAP_OFF_ZCRX_REGION in io_uring_mmap
io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig
io_uring/zcrx: fix leaks on failed registration
io_uring/zcrx: recheck ifq on shutdown
io_uring/zcrx: add selftest
net: add documentation for io_uring zcrx
io_uring/zcrx: add copy fallback
io_uring/zcrx: throttle receive requests
io_uring/zcrx: set pp memory provider for an rx queue
io_uring/zcrx: add io_recvzc request
io_uring/zcrx: dma-map area for the device
io_uring/zcrx: implement zerocopy receive pp memory provider
io_uring/zcrx: grab a net device
io_uring/zcrx: add io_zcrx_area
io_uring/zcrx: add interface queue and refill queue
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/index.rst | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/iou-zcrx.rst | 202 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst index 058193ed2eeb..c64133d309bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ Contents: gtp ila ioam6-sysctl + iou-zcrx ip_dynaddr ipsec ip-sysctl diff --git a/Documentation/networking/iou-zcrx.rst b/Documentation/networking/iou-zcrx.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0127319b30bb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/iou-zcrx.rst @@ -0,0 +1,202 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +===================== +io_uring zero copy Rx +===================== + +Introduction +============ + +io_uring zero copy Rx (ZC Rx) is a feature that removes kernel-to-user copy on +the network receive path, allowing packet data to be received directly into +userspace memory. This feature is different to TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE in that +there are no strict alignment requirements and no need to mmap()/munmap(). +Compared to kernel bypass solutions such as e.g. DPDK, the packet headers are +processed by the kernel TCP stack as normal. + +NIC HW Requirements +=================== + +Several NIC HW features are required for io_uring ZC Rx to work. For now the +kernel API does not configure the NIC and it must be done by the user. + +Header/data split +----------------- + +Required to split packets at the L4 boundary into a header and a payload. +Headers are received into kernel memory as normal and processed by the TCP +stack as normal. Payloads are received into userspace memory directly. + +Flow steering +------------- + +Specific HW Rx queues are configured for this feature, but modern NICs +typically distribute flows across all HW Rx queues. Flow steering is required +to ensure that only desired flows are directed towards HW queues that are +configured for io_uring ZC Rx. + +RSS +--- + +In addition to flow steering above, RSS is required to steer all other non-zero +copy flows away from queues that are configured for io_uring ZC Rx. + +Usage +===== + +Setup NIC +--------- + +Must be done out of band for now. + +Ensure there are at least two queues:: + + ethtool -L eth0 combined 2 + +Enable header/data split:: + + ethtool -G eth0 tcp-data-split on + +Carve out half of the HW Rx queues for zero copy using RSS:: + + ethtool -X eth0 equal 1 + +Set up flow steering, bearing in mind that queues are 0-indexed:: + + ethtool -N eth0 flow-type tcp6 ... action 1 + +Setup io_uring +-------------- + +This section describes the low level io_uring kernel API. Please refer to +liburing documentation for how to use the higher level API. + +Create an io_uring instance with the following required setup flags:: + + IORING_SETUP_SINGLE_ISSUER + IORING_SETUP_DEFER_TASKRUN + IORING_SETUP_CQE32 + +Create memory area +------------------ + +Allocate userspace memory area for receiving zero copy data:: + + void *area_ptr = mmap(NULL, area_size, + PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, + MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, + 0, 0); + +Create refill ring +------------------ + +Allocate memory for a shared ringbuf used for returning consumed buffers:: + + void *ring_ptr = mmap(NULL, ring_size, + PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, + MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, + 0, 0); + +This refill ring consists of some space for the header, followed by an array of +``struct io_uring_zcrx_rqe``:: + + size_t rq_entries = 4096; + size_t ring_size = rq_entries * sizeof(struct io_uring_zcrx_rqe) + PAGE_SIZE; + /* align to page size */ + ring_size = (ring_size + (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) & ~(PAGE_SIZE - 1); + +Register ZC Rx +-------------- + +Fill in registration structs:: + + struct io_uring_zcrx_area_reg area_reg = { + .addr = (__u64)(unsigned long)area_ptr, + .len = area_size, + .flags = 0, + }; + + struct io_uring_region_desc region_reg = { + .user_addr = (__u64)(unsigned long)ring_ptr, + .size = ring_size, + .flags = IORING_MEM_REGION_TYPE_USER, + }; + + struct io_uring_zcrx_ifq_reg reg = { + .if_idx = if_nametoindex("eth0"), + /* this is the HW queue with desired flow steered into it */ + .if_rxq = 1, + .rq_entries = rq_entries, + .area_ptr = (__u64)(unsigned long)&area_reg, + .region_ptr = (__u64)(unsigned long)®ion_reg, + }; + +Register with kernel:: + + io_uring_register_ifq(ring, ®); + +Map refill ring +--------------- + +The kernel fills in fields for the refill ring in the registration ``struct +io_uring_zcrx_ifq_reg``. Map it into userspace:: + + struct io_uring_zcrx_rq refill_ring; + + refill_ring.khead = (unsigned *)((char *)ring_ptr + reg.offsets.head); + refill_ring.khead = (unsigned *)((char *)ring_ptr + reg.offsets.tail); + refill_ring.rqes = + (struct io_uring_zcrx_rqe *)((char *)ring_ptr + reg.offsets.rqes); + refill_ring.rq_tail = 0; + refill_ring.ring_ptr = ring_ptr; + +Receiving data +-------------- + +Prepare a zero copy recv request:: + + struct io_uring_sqe *sqe; + + sqe = io_uring_get_sqe(ring); + io_uring_prep_rw(IORING_OP_RECV_ZC, sqe, fd, NULL, 0, 0); + sqe->ioprio |= IORING_RECV_MULTISHOT; + +Now, submit and wait:: + + io_uring_submit_and_wait(ring, 1); + +Finally, process completions:: + + struct io_uring_cqe *cqe; + unsigned int count = 0; + unsigned int head; + + io_uring_for_each_cqe(ring, head, cqe) { + struct io_uring_zcrx_cqe *rcqe = (struct io_uring_zcrx_cqe *)(cqe + 1); + + unsigned long mask = (1ULL << IORING_ZCRX_AREA_SHIFT) - 1; + unsigned char *data = area_ptr + (rcqe->off & mask); + /* do something with the data */ + + count++; + } + io_uring_cq_advance(ring, count); + +Recycling buffers +----------------- + +Return buffers back to the kernel to be used again:: + + struct io_uring_zcrx_rqe *rqe; + unsigned mask = refill_ring.ring_entries - 1; + rqe = &refill_ring.rqes[refill_ring.rq_tail & mask]; + + unsigned long area_offset = rcqe->off & ~IORING_ZCRX_AREA_MASK; + rqe->off = area_offset | area_reg.rq_area_token; + rqe->len = cqe->res; + IO_URING_WRITE_ONCE(*refill_ring.ktail, ++refill_ring.rq_tail); + +Testing +======= + +See ``tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/iou-zcrx.c`` |