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
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index ed9aa4a91f1f..1b5a4410be0e 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@
 #include <linux/sctp.h>
 #include <net/udp_tunnel.h>
 #include <linux/net_namespace.h>
+#include <linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h>
 
 #include "net-sysfs.h"
 
@@ -5338,6 +5339,8 @@ static void flush_all_backlogs(void)
 	put_online_cpus();
 }
 
+INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(int inet_gro_complete(struct sk_buff *, int));
+INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(int ipv6_gro_complete(struct sk_buff *, int));
 static int napi_gro_complete(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	struct packet_offload *ptype;
@@ -5357,7 +5360,9 @@ static int napi_gro_complete(struct sk_buff *skb)
 		if (ptype->type != type || !ptype->callbacks.gro_complete)
 			continue;
 
-		err = ptype->callbacks.gro_complete(skb, 0);
+		err = INDIRECT_CALL_INET(ptype->callbacks.gro_complete,
+					 ipv6_gro_complete, inet_gro_complete,
+					 skb, 0);
 		break;
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -5504,6 +5509,10 @@ static void gro_flush_oldest(struct list_head *head)
 	napi_gro_complete(oldest);
 }
 
+INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(struct sk_buff *inet_gro_receive(struct list_head *,
+							   struct sk_buff *));
+INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(struct sk_buff *ipv6_gro_receive(struct list_head *,
+							   struct sk_buff *));
 static enum gro_result dev_gro_receive(struct napi_struct *napi, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	u32 hash = skb_get_hash_raw(skb) & (GRO_HASH_BUCKETS - 1);
@@ -5553,7 +5562,9 @@ static enum gro_result dev_gro_receive(struct napi_struct *napi, struct sk_buff
 			NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->csum_valid = 0;
 		}
 
-		pp = ptype->callbacks.gro_receive(gro_head, skb);
+		pp = INDIRECT_CALL_INET(ptype->callbacks.gro_receive,
+					ipv6_gro_receive, inet_gro_receive,
+					gro_head, skb);
 		break;
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();