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<subtitle>Plug A Simple Socket Transport</subtitle>
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<title>tcp, flow: Better use flow specific logging heleprs</title>
<updated>2025-03-14T22:40:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2025-03-13T02:56:17+00:00</published>
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A number of places in the TCP code use general logging functions, instead
of the flow specific ones.  That includes a few older ones as well as many
places in the new migration code.  Thus they either don't identify which
flow the problem happened on, or identify it in a non-standard way.

Convert many of these to use the existing flow specific helpers.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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A number of places in the TCP code use general logging functions, instead
of the flow specific ones.  That includes a few older ones as well as many
places in the new migration code.  Thus they either don't identify which
flow the problem happened on, or identify it in a non-standard way.

Convert many of these to use the existing flow specific helpers.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: Don't export tcp_update_csum()</title>
<updated>2025-03-07T01:21:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2025-03-05T06:15:06+00:00</published>
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tcp_update_csum() is exposed in tcp_internal.h, but is only used in tcp.c.
Remove the unneded prototype and make it static.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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tcp_update_csum() is exposed in tcp_internal.h, but is only used in tcp.c.
Remove the unneded prototype and make it static.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>tcp: Add HOSTSIDE(x), HOSTFLOW(x) macros</title>
<updated>2025-02-03T06:32:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-01-31T18:13:00+00:00</published>
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Those are symmetric to TAPSIDE(x)/TAPFLOW(x) and I'll use them in
the next patch to extract 'oport' in order to re-bind sockets to
the original socket-side local port.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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Those are symmetric to TAPSIDE(x)/TAPFLOW(x) and I'll use them in
the next patch to extract 'oport' in order to re-bind sockets to
the original socket-side local port.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: Merge tcp_fill_headers[46]() with each other</title>
<updated>2024-11-28T13:03:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2024-11-27T03:54:09+00:00</published>
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We have different versions of this function for IPv4 and IPv6, but the
caller already requires some IP version specific code to get the right
header pointers.  Instead, have a common function that fills either an
IPv4 or an IPv6 header based on which header pointer it is passed.  This
allows us to remove a small amount of code duplication and make a few
slightly ugly conditionals.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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We have different versions of this function for IPv4 and IPv6, but the
caller already requires some IP version specific code to get the right
header pointers.  Instead, have a common function that fills either an
IPv4 or an IPv6 header based on which header pointer it is passed.  This
allows us to remove a small amount of code duplication and make a few
slightly ugly conditionals.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>tcp: Merge tcp_update_check_tcp[46]()</title>
<updated>2024-11-28T13:03:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-27T03:54:08+00:00</published>
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The only reason we need separate functions for the IPv4 and IPv6 case is
to calculate the checksum of the IP pseudo-header, which is different for
the two cases.  However, the caller already knows which path it's on and
can access the values needed for the pseudo-header partial sum more easily
than tcp_update_check_tcp[46]() can.

So, merge these functions into a single tcp_update_csum() function that
just takes the pseudo-header partial sum, calculated in the caller.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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The only reason we need separate functions for the IPv4 and IPv6 case is
to calculate the checksum of the IP pseudo-header, which is different for
the two cases.  However, the caller already knows which path it's on and
can access the values needed for the pseudo-header partial sum more easily
than tcp_update_check_tcp[46]() can.

So, merge these functions into a single tcp_update_csum() function that
just takes the pseudo-header partial sum, calculated in the caller.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: Pass TCP header and payload separately to tcp_fill_headers[46]()</title>
<updated>2024-11-28T13:03:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-27T03:54:07+00:00</published>
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At the moment these take separate pointers to the tap specific and IP
headers, but expect the TCP header and payload as a single tcp_payload_t.
As well as being slightly inconsistent, this involves some slightly iffy
pointer shenanigans when called on the flags path with a tcp_flags_t
instead of a tcp_payload_t.

More importantly, it's inconvenient for the upcoming vhost-user case, where
the TCP header and payload might not be contiguous.  Furthermore, the
payload itself might not be contiguous.

So, pass the TCP header as its own pointer, and the TCP payload as an IO
vector.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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At the moment these take separate pointers to the tap specific and IP
headers, but expect the TCP header and payload as a single tcp_payload_t.
As well as being slightly inconsistent, this involves some slightly iffy
pointer shenanigans when called on the flags path with a tcp_flags_t
instead of a tcp_payload_t.

More importantly, it's inconvenient for the upcoming vhost-user case, where
the TCP header and payload might not be contiguous.  Furthermore, the
payload itself might not be contiguous.

So, pass the TCP header as its own pointer, and the TCP payload as an IO
vector.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>tcp: Pass TCP header and payload separately to tcp_update_check_tcp[46]()</title>
<updated>2024-11-28T13:03:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2024-11-27T03:54:06+00:00</published>
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Currently these expects both the TCP header and payload in a single IOV,
and goes to some trouble to locate the checksum field within it.  In the
current caller we've already know where the TCP header is, so we might as
well just pass it in.  This will need to work a bit differently for
vhost-user, but that code already needs to locate the TCP header for other
reasons, so again we can just pass it in.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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Currently these expects both the TCP header and payload in a single IOV,
and goes to some trouble to locate the checksum field within it.  In the
current caller we've already know where the TCP header is, so we might as
well just pass it in.  This will need to work a bit differently for
vhost-user, but that code already needs to locate the TCP header for other
reasons, so again we can just pass it in.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>tcp: Move tcp_l2_buf_fill_headers() to tcp_buf.c</title>
<updated>2024-11-27T15:49:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-22T16:43:36+00:00</published>
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This function only has callers in tcp_buf.c.  More importantly, it's
inherently tied to the "buf" path, because it uses internal knowledge of
how we lay out the various headers across our locally allocated buffers.

Therefore, move it to tcp_buf.c.

Slightly reformat the prototypes while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;lvivier@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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This function only has callers in tcp_buf.c.  More importantly, it's
inherently tied to the "buf" path, because it uses internal knowledge of
how we lay out the various headers across our locally allocated buffers.

Therefore, move it to tcp_buf.c.

Slightly reformat the prototypes while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;lvivier@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>tcp: Export headers functions</title>
<updated>2024-11-27T15:12:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laurent Vivier</name>
<email>lvivier@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-22T16:43:32+00:00</published>
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Export tcp_fill_headers[4|6]() and tcp_update_check_tcp[4|6]().

They'll be needed by vhost-user.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;lvivier@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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Export tcp_fill_headers[4|6]() and tcp_update_check_tcp[4|6]().

They'll be needed by vhost-user.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;lvivier@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>tcp: unify payload and flags l2 frames array</title>
<updated>2024-11-07T11:47:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jmaloy@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2024-11-06T01:07:44+00:00</published>
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In order to reduce static memory and code footprint, we merge
the array for l2 flag frames into the one for payload frames.

This change also ensures that no flag message will be sent out
over the l2 media bypassing already queued payload messages.

Performance measurements with iperf3, where we force all
traffic via the tap queue, show no significant difference:

Dual traffic both directions sinmultaneously, with patch:
========================================================
host-&gt;ns:
--------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec  36.3 GBytes  3.12 Gbits/sec  4759       sender
[  5]   0.00-100.04 sec  36.3 GBytes  3.11 Gbits/sec             receiver

ns-&gt;host:
---------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   321 GBytes  27.6 Gbits/sec            receiver

Dual traffic both directions sinmultaneously, without patch:
============================================================
host-&gt;ns:
--------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec  35.0 GBytes  3.01 Gbits/sec  6001       sender
[  5]   0.00-100.04 sec  34.8 GBytes  2.99 Gbits/sec            receiver

ns-&gt;host
--------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   345 GBytes  29.6 Gbits/sec            receiver

Single connection, with patch:
==============================
host-&gt;ns:
---------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   138 GBytes  11.8 Gbits/sec  922       sender
[  5]   0.00-100.04 sec   138 GBytes  11.8 Gbits/sec            receiver

ns-&gt;host:
-----------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   430 GBytes  36.9 Gbits/sec            receiver

Single connection, without patch:
=================================
host-&gt;ns:
------------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   139 GBytes  11.9 Gbits/sec  900       sender
[  5]   0.00-100.04 sec   139 GBytes  11.9 Gbits/sec            receiver

ns-&gt;host:
---------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   440 GBytes  37.8 Gbits/sec            receiver

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jmaloy@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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In order to reduce static memory and code footprint, we merge
the array for l2 flag frames into the one for payload frames.

This change also ensures that no flag message will be sent out
over the l2 media bypassing already queued payload messages.

Performance measurements with iperf3, where we force all
traffic via the tap queue, show no significant difference:

Dual traffic both directions sinmultaneously, with patch:
========================================================
host-&gt;ns:
--------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec  36.3 GBytes  3.12 Gbits/sec  4759       sender
[  5]   0.00-100.04 sec  36.3 GBytes  3.11 Gbits/sec             receiver

ns-&gt;host:
---------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   321 GBytes  27.6 Gbits/sec            receiver

Dual traffic both directions sinmultaneously, without patch:
============================================================
host-&gt;ns:
--------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec  35.0 GBytes  3.01 Gbits/sec  6001       sender
[  5]   0.00-100.04 sec  34.8 GBytes  2.99 Gbits/sec            receiver

ns-&gt;host
--------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   345 GBytes  29.6 Gbits/sec            receiver

Single connection, with patch:
==============================
host-&gt;ns:
---------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   138 GBytes  11.8 Gbits/sec  922       sender
[  5]   0.00-100.04 sec   138 GBytes  11.8 Gbits/sec            receiver

ns-&gt;host:
-----------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   430 GBytes  36.9 Gbits/sec            receiver

Single connection, without patch:
=================================
host-&gt;ns:
------------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   139 GBytes  11.9 Gbits/sec  900       sender
[  5]   0.00-100.04 sec   139 GBytes  11.9 Gbits/sec            receiver

ns-&gt;host:
---------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   440 GBytes  37.8 Gbits/sec            receiver

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jmaloy@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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