Re: [PATCH RFC net-next v2 0/3] vsock: add support for sockmap

[Bobby Eshleman]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2023 at 12:08:49PM -0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 08:35:11PM -0800, Bobby Eshleman wrote:
> > Add support for sockmap to vsock.
> > 
> > We're testing usage of vsock as a way to redirect guest-local UDS requests to
> > the host and this patch series greatly improves the performance of such a
> > setup.
> > 
> > Compared to copying packets via userspace, this improves throughput by 121% in
> > basic testing.
> > 
> > Tested as follows.
> > 
> > Setup: guest unix dgram sender -> guest vsock redirector -> host vsock server
> > Threads: 1
> > Payload: 64k
> > No sockmap:
> > - 76.3 MB/s
> > - The guest vsock redirector was
> >   "socat VSOCK-CONNECT:2:1234 UNIX-RECV:/path/to/sock"
> > Using sockmap (this patch):
> > - 168.8 MB/s (+121%)
> > - The guest redirector was a simple sockmap echo server,
> >   redirecting unix ingress to vsock 2:1234 egress.
> > - Same sender and server programs
> > 
> > *Note: these numbers are from RFC v1
> > 
> > Only the virtio transport has been tested. The loopback transport was used in
> > writing bpf/selftests, but not thoroughly tested otherwise.
> > 
> > This series requires the skb patch.
> > 
> 
> Looks good to me. Definitely good to go as non-RFC.
> 
> Thanks.

Thank you for the review.

Best,
Bobby