tcp: implement mmap() for zero copy receive

Some networks can make sure TCP payload can exactly fit 4KB pages,
with well chosen MSS/MTU and architectures.

Implement mmap() system call so that applications can avoid
copying data without complex splice() games.

Note that a successful mmap( X bytes) on TCP socket is consuming
bytes, as if recvmsg() has been done. (tp->copied += X)

Only PROT_READ mappings are accepted, as skb page frags
are fundamentally shared and read only.

If tcp_mmap() finds data that is not a full page, or a patch of
urgent data, -EINVAL is returned, no bytes are consumed.

Application must fallback to recvmsg() to read the problematic sequence.

mmap() wont block,  regardless of socket being in blocking or
non-blocking mode. If not enough bytes are in receive queue,
mmap() would return -EAGAIN, or -EIO if socket is in a state
where no other bytes can be added into receive queue.

An application might use SO_RCVLOWAT, poll() and/or ioctl( FIONREAD)
to efficiently use mmap()

On the sender side, MSG_EOR might help to clearly separate unaligned
headers and 4K-aligned chunks if necessary.

Tested:

mlx4 (cx-3) 40Gbit NIC, with tcp_mmap program provided in following patch.
MTU set to 4168  (4096 TCP payload, 40 bytes IPv6 header, 32 bytes TCP header)

Without mmap() (tcp_mmap -s)

received 32768 MB (0 % mmap'ed) in 8.13342 s, 33.7961 Gbit,
  cpu usage user:0.034 sys:3.778, 116.333 usec per MB, 63062 c-switches
received 32768 MB (0 % mmap'ed) in 8.14501 s, 33.748 Gbit,
  cpu usage user:0.029 sys:3.997, 122.864 usec per MB, 61903 c-switches
received 32768 MB (0 % mmap'ed) in 8.11723 s, 33.8635 Gbit,
  cpu usage user:0.048 sys:3.964, 122.437 usec per MB, 62983 c-switches
received 32768 MB (0 % mmap'ed) in 8.39189 s, 32.7552 Gbit,
  cpu usage user:0.038 sys:4.181, 128.754 usec per MB, 55834 c-switches

With mmap() on receiver (tcp_mmap -s -z)

received 32768 MB (100 % mmap'ed) in 8.03083 s, 34.2278 Gbit,
  cpu usage user:0.024 sys:1.466, 45.4712 usec per MB, 65479 c-switches
received 32768 MB (100 % mmap'ed) in 7.98805 s, 34.4111 Gbit,
  cpu usage user:0.026 sys:1.401, 43.5486 usec per MB, 65447 c-switches
received 32768 MB (100 % mmap'ed) in 7.98377 s, 34.4296 Gbit,
  cpu usage user:0.028 sys:1.452, 45.166 usec per MB, 65496 c-switches
received 32768 MB (99.9969 % mmap'ed) in 8.01838 s, 34.281 Gbit,
  cpu usage user:0.02 sys:1.446, 44.7388 usec per MB, 65505 c-switches

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 0ee85c47c185..833154e3df17 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -404,6 +404,8 @@ int tcp_recvmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len, int nonblock,
 		int flags, int *addr_len);
 int tcp_set_rcvlowat(struct sock *sk, int val);
 void tcp_data_ready(struct sock *sk);
+int tcp_mmap(struct file *file, struct socket *sock,
+	     struct vm_area_struct *vma);
 void tcp_parse_options(const struct net *net, const struct sk_buff *skb,
 		       struct tcp_options_received *opt_rx,
 		       int estab, struct tcp_fastopen_cookie *foc);