Re: [RFC PATCH v4 01/17] vsock/virtio: read data from non-linear skb

From: Bobby Eshleman
Date: Mon Jun 12 2023 - 15:36:34 EST


On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 11:49:23PM +0300, Arseniy Krasnov wrote:
> This is preparation patch for non-linear skbuff handling. It replaces
> direct calls of 'memcpy_to_msg()' with 'skb_copy_datagram_iter()'. Main
> advantage of the second one is that is can handle paged part of the skb
> by using 'kmap()' on each page, but if there are no pages in the skb,
> it behaves like simple copying to iov iterator. This patch also adds
> new field to the control block of skb - this value shows current offset
> in the skb to read next portion of data (it doesn't matter linear it or
> not). Idea is that 'skb_copy_datagram_iter()' handles both types of
> skb internally - it just needs an offset from which to copy data from
> the given skb. This offset is incremented on each read from skb. This
> approach allows to avoid special handling of non-linear skbs:
> 1) We can't call 'skb_pull()' on it, because it updates 'data' pointer.
> 2) We need to update 'data_len' also on each read from this skb.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arseniy Krasnov <AVKrasnov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/virtio_vsock.h | 1 +
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++--------
> 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h b/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
> index c58453699ee9..17dbb7176e37 100644
> --- a/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
> +++ b/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
> struct virtio_vsock_skb_cb {
> bool reply;
> bool tap_delivered;
> + u32 frag_off;
> };
>
> #define VIRTIO_VSOCK_SKB_CB(skb) ((struct virtio_vsock_skb_cb *)((skb)->cb))
> diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> index b769fc258931..5819a9cd4515 100644
> --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ virtio_transport_stream_do_peek(struct vsock_sock *vsk,
> spin_lock_bh(&vvs->rx_lock);
>
> skb_queue_walk_safe(&vvs->rx_queue, skb, tmp) {
> - off = 0;
> + off = VIRTIO_VSOCK_SKB_CB(skb)->frag_off;
>
> if (total == len)
> break;
> @@ -370,7 +370,10 @@ virtio_transport_stream_do_peek(struct vsock_sock *vsk,
> */
> spin_unlock_bh(&vvs->rx_lock);
>
> - err = memcpy_to_msg(msg, skb->data + off, bytes);
> + err = skb_copy_datagram_iter(skb, off,
> + &msg->msg_iter,
> + bytes);
> +
> if (err)
> goto out;
>
> @@ -414,24 +417,28 @@ virtio_transport_stream_do_dequeue(struct vsock_sock *vsk,
> skb = skb_peek(&vvs->rx_queue);
>
> bytes = len - total;
> - if (bytes > skb->len)
> - bytes = skb->len;
> + if (bytes > skb->len - VIRTIO_VSOCK_SKB_CB(skb)->frag_off)
> + bytes = skb->len - VIRTIO_VSOCK_SKB_CB(skb)->frag_off;
>
> /* sk_lock is held by caller so no one else can dequeue.
> * Unlock rx_lock since memcpy_to_msg() may sleep.
> */
> spin_unlock_bh(&vvs->rx_lock);
>
> - err = memcpy_to_msg(msg, skb->data, bytes);
> + err = skb_copy_datagram_iter(skb,
> + VIRTIO_VSOCK_SKB_CB(skb)->frag_off,
> + &msg->msg_iter, bytes);
> +
> if (err)
> goto out;
>
> spin_lock_bh(&vvs->rx_lock);
>
> total += bytes;
> - skb_pull(skb, bytes);
>
> - if (skb->len == 0) {
> + VIRTIO_VSOCK_SKB_CB(skb)->frag_off += bytes;
> +
> + if (skb->len == VIRTIO_VSOCK_SKB_CB(skb)->frag_off) {
> u32 pkt_len = le32_to_cpu(virtio_vsock_hdr(skb)->len);
>
> virtio_transport_dec_rx_pkt(vvs, pkt_len);
> @@ -503,7 +510,10 @@ static int virtio_transport_seqpacket_do_dequeue(struct vsock_sock *vsk,
> */
> spin_unlock_bh(&vvs->rx_lock);
>
> - err = memcpy_to_msg(msg, skb->data, bytes_to_copy);
> + err = skb_copy_datagram_iter(skb, 0,
> + &msg->msg_iter,
> + bytes_to_copy);
> +
> if (err) {
> /* Copy of message failed. Rest of
> * fragments will be freed without copy.
> --
> 2.25.1
>

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobby.eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>