Merge branch 'net-mitigate-retpoline-overhead'

Paolo Abeni says:

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net: mitigate retpoline overhead

The spectre v2 counter-measures, aka retpolines, are a source of measurable
overhead[1]. We can partially address that when the function pointer refers to
a builtin symbol resorting to a list of tests vs well-known builtin function and
direct calls.

Experimental results show that replacing a single indirect call via
retpoline with several branches and a direct call gives performance gains
even when multiple branches are added - 5 or more, as reported in [2].

This may lead to some uglification around the indirect calls. In netconf 2018
Eric Dumazet described a technique to hide the most relevant part of the needed
boilerplate with some macro help.

This series is a [re-]implementation of such idea, exposing the introduced
helpers in a new header file. They are later leveraged to avoid the indirect
call overhead in the GRO path, when possible.

Overall this gives > 10% performance improvement for UDP GRO benchmark and
smaller but measurable for TCP syn flood.

The added infra can be used in follow-up patches to cope with retpoline overhead
in other points of the networking stack (e.g. at the qdisc layer) and possibly
even in other subsystems.

v2  -> v3:
 - fix build error with CONFIG_IPV6=m

v1  -> v2:
 - list explicitly the builtin function names in INDIRECT_CALL_*(),
   as suggested by Ed Cree
 - expand the recipients list

rfc -> v1:
 - use branch prediction hints, as suggested by Eric

[1] http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2018_files/PaoloAbeni_netconf2018.pdf
[2] https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/2/contributions/99/attachments/98/117/lpc18_paper_af_xdp_perf-v2.pdf
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/inet_common.h b/include/net/inet_common.h
index 3ca969cbd161..975901a95c0f 100644
--- a/include/net/inet_common.h
+++ b/include/net/inet_common.h
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 #ifndef _INET_COMMON_H
 #define _INET_COMMON_H
 
+#include <linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h>
+
 extern const struct proto_ops inet_stream_ops;
 extern const struct proto_ops inet_dgram_ops;
 
@@ -54,4 +56,11 @@ static inline void inet_ctl_sock_destroy(struct sock *sk)
 		sock_release(sk->sk_socket);
 }
 
+#define indirect_call_gro_receive(f2, f1, cb, head, skb)	\
+({								\
+	unlikely(gro_recursion_inc_test(skb)) ?			\
+		NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush |= 1, NULL :		\
+		INDIRECT_CALL_2(cb, f2, f1, head, skb);		\
+})
+
 #endif