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    Merge branch 'for-uring-ubufops' into HEAD · af046fd1
    Jakub Kicinski authored
    Pavel Begunkov says:
    
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    implement io_uring notification (ubuf_info) stacking (net part)
    
    To have per request buffer notifications each zerocopy io_uring send
    request allocates a new ubuf_info. However, as an skb can carry only
    one uarg, it may force the stack to create many small skbs hurting
    performance in many ways.
    
    The patchset implements notification, i.e. an io_uring's ubuf_info
    extension, stacking. It attempts to link ubuf_info's into a list,
    allowing to have multiple of them per skb.
    
    liburing/examples/send-zerocopy shows up 6 times performance improvement
    for TCP with 4KB bytes per send, and levels it with MSG_ZEROCOPY. Without
    the patchset it requires much larger sends to utilise all potential.
    
    bytes  | before | after (Kqps)
    1200   | 195    | 1023
    4000   | 193    | 1386
    8000   | 154    | 1058
    ====================
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1713369317.git.asml.silence@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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