[Make-wifi-fast] emulating wifi better - coupling qdiscs in netem?

[Eric Dumazet]

On 06/18/2018 02:54 PM, Pete Heist wrote:
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>> On Jun 18, 2018, at 9:44 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com <mailto:dave.taht at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> This is still without batch releases, yes?
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> Yes, I should've tried that earlier, but I’m scratching my head now as to how it works. Perhaps it’s because the old example I’m using for the non-GSO case uses deprecated functions and I ought to just ditch it, but I thought if in my callback I just switched:
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> return nfq_set_verdict(qh, id, NF_ACCEPT, 0, NULL);
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> to
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> return nfq_set_verdict_batch(qh, id + 8, NF_ACCEPT);
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> that my callback might not be called for the subsequent 8 packets I’ve accepted, however it continues to be called for each id sequentially anyway and throughput is no better. If I change 8 to something unreasonable, like 1000000, throughput is cut in half, so it’s doing “something”.
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> There are functions in the newer GSO example like nfq_nlmsg_verdict_put, but I don’t see a batch version of that. So, I’m likely missing something…
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> BTW I don’t see a change setting SO_BUSY_POLL on nfq’s fd (tried 1000 - 1000000 usec).
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busy polling does not request SO_BUSY_POLL.

Usually, we simply use non blocking system calls in a big loop.
( nl_socket_get_fd() -> then set the file in O_NDELAY mode)

SO_BUSY_POLL is a way to directly call the NAPI handler of the device (or more precisely RX queue)
feeding packets. This saves the hard interrupt latency.

For NFQUEUE, that would require a bit of plumbing I guess.

Each NF Queue would have to record (in the kernel) the NAPI id of intercepted packets.
-> A bit complicated since the number of RX queues on a NIC/host is quite variable.