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, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c b/net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c
index e72947c99454..3179c425d7ff 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c
@@ -9,14 +9,15 @@
  *
  *      TCPv6 GSO/GRO support
  */
+#include <linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h>
 #include <linux/skbuff.h>
 #include <net/protocol.h>
 #include <net/tcp.h>
 #include <net/ip6_checksum.h>
 #include "ip6_offload.h"
 
-static struct sk_buff *tcp6_gro_receive(struct list_head *head,
-					struct sk_buff *skb)
+INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE
+struct sk_buff *tcp6_gro_receive(struct list_head *head, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	/* Don't bother verifying checksum if we're going to flush anyway. */
 	if (!NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush &&
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *tcp6_gro_receive(struct list_head *head,
 	return tcp_gro_receive(head, skb);
 }
 
-static int tcp6_gro_complete(struct sk_buff *skb, int thoff)
+INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE int tcp6_gro_complete(struct sk_buff *skb, int thoff)
 {
 	const struct ipv6hdr *iph = ipv6_hdr(skb);
 	struct tcphdr *th = tcp_hdr(skb);