netstack/tcp: software segmentation offload

Right now, we send each tcp packet separately, we call one system
call per-packet. This patch allows to generate multiple tcp packets
and send them by sendmmsg.

The arguable part of this CL is a way how to handle multiple headers.
This CL adds the next field to the Prepandable buffer.

Nginx test results:

Server Software:        nginx/1.15.9
Server Hostname:        10.138.0.2
Server Port:            8080

Document Path:          /10m.txt
Document Length:        10485760 bytes

w/o gso:
Concurrency Level:      5
Time taken for tests:   5.491 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      1048600200 bytes
HTML transferred:       1048576000 bytes
Requests per second:    18.21 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       274.525 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       54.905 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          186508.03 [Kbytes/sec] received

sw-gso:

Concurrency Level:      5
Time taken for tests:   3.852 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      1048600200 bytes
HTML transferred:       1048576000 bytes
Requests per second:    25.96 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       192.576 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       38.515 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          265874.92 [Kbytes/sec] received

w/o gso:
$ ./tcp_benchmark --client --duration 15  --ideal
[SUM]  0.0-15.1 sec  2.20 GBytes  1.25 Gbits/sec

software gso:
$ tcp_benchmark --client --duration 15  --ideal --gso $((1<<16)) --swgso
[SUM]  0.0-15.1 sec  3.99 GBytes  2.26 Gbits/sec

PiperOrigin-RevId: 276112677

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/link/muxed/injectable.go b/pkg/tcpip/link/muxed/injectable.go
index 41524e271..682b60291 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/link/muxed/injectable.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/link/muxed/injectable.go
@@ -84,12 +84,23 @@ func (m *InjectableEndpoint) InjectInbound(protocol tcpip.NetworkProtocolNumber,
 	m.dispatcher.DeliverNetworkPacket(m, "" /* remote */, "" /* local */, protocol, vv, nil /* linkHeader */)
 }
 
+// WritePackets writes outbound packets to the appropriate
+// LinkInjectableEndpoint based on the RemoteAddress. HandleLocal only works if
+// r.RemoteAddress has a route registered in this endpoint.
+func (m *InjectableEndpoint) WritePackets(r *stack.Route, gso *stack.GSO, hdrs []stack.PacketDescriptor, payload buffer.VectorisedView, protocol tcpip.NetworkProtocolNumber) (int, *tcpip.Error) {
+	endpoint, ok := m.routes[r.RemoteAddress]
+	if !ok {
+		return 0, tcpip.ErrNoRoute
+	}
+	return endpoint.WritePackets(r, gso, hdrs, payload, protocol)
+}
+
 // WritePacket writes outbound packets to the appropriate LinkInjectableEndpoint
 // based on the RemoteAddress. HandleLocal only works if r.RemoteAddress has a
 // route registered in this endpoint.
-func (m *InjectableEndpoint) WritePacket(r *stack.Route, _ *stack.GSO, hdr buffer.Prependable, payload buffer.VectorisedView, protocol tcpip.NetworkProtocolNumber) *tcpip.Error {
+func (m *InjectableEndpoint) WritePacket(r *stack.Route, gso *stack.GSO, hdr buffer.Prependable, payload buffer.VectorisedView, protocol tcpip.NetworkProtocolNumber) *tcpip.Error {
 	if endpoint, ok := m.routes[r.RemoteAddress]; ok {
-		return endpoint.WritePacket(r, nil /* gso */, hdr, payload, protocol)
+		return endpoint.WritePacket(r, gso, hdr, payload, protocol)
 	}
 	return tcpip.ErrNoRoute
 }