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, 27 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/ipv6.go b/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/ipv6.go
index cd1e34085..5898f8f9e 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/ipv6.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/ipv6.go
@@ -97,9 +97,8 @@ func (e *endpoint) GSOMaxSize() uint32 {
 	return 0
 }
 
-// WritePacket writes a packet to the given destination address and protocol.
-func (e *endpoint) WritePacket(r *stack.Route, gso *stack.GSO, hdr buffer.Prependable, payload buffer.VectorisedView, params stack.NetworkHeaderParams, loop stack.PacketLooping) *tcpip.Error {
-	length := uint16(hdr.UsedLength() + payload.Size())
+func (e *endpoint) addIPHeader(r *stack.Route, hdr *buffer.Prependable, payloadSize int, params stack.NetworkHeaderParams) {
+	length := uint16(hdr.UsedLength() + payloadSize)
 	ip := header.IPv6(hdr.Prepend(header.IPv6MinimumSize))
 	ip.Encode(&header.IPv6Fields{
 		PayloadLength: length,
@@ -109,6 +108,11 @@ func (e *endpoint) WritePacket(r *stack.Route, gso *stack.GSO, hdr buffer.Prepen
 		SrcAddr:       r.LocalAddress,
 		DstAddr:       r.RemoteAddress,
 	})
+}
+
+// WritePacket writes a packet to the given destination address and protocol.
+func (e *endpoint) WritePacket(r *stack.Route, gso *stack.GSO, hdr buffer.Prependable, payload buffer.VectorisedView, params stack.NetworkHeaderParams, loop stack.PacketLooping) *tcpip.Error {
+	e.addIPHeader(r, &hdr, payload.Size(), params)
 
 	if loop&stack.PacketLoop != 0 {
 		views := make([]buffer.View, 1, 1+len(payload.Views()))
@@ -127,6 +131,26 @@ func (e *endpoint) WritePacket(r *stack.Route, gso *stack.GSO, hdr buffer.Prepen
 	return e.linkEP.WritePacket(r, gso, hdr, payload, ProtocolNumber)
 }
 
+// WritePackets implements stack.LinkEndpoint.WritePackets.
+func (e *endpoint) WritePackets(r *stack.Route, gso *stack.GSO, hdrs []stack.PacketDescriptor, payload buffer.VectorisedView, params stack.NetworkHeaderParams, loop stack.PacketLooping) (int, *tcpip.Error) {
+	if loop&stack.PacketLoop != 0 {
+		panic("not implemented")
+	}
+	if loop&stack.PacketOut == 0 {
+		return len(hdrs), nil
+	}
+
+	for i := range hdrs {
+		hdr := &hdrs[i].Hdr
+		size := hdrs[i].Size
+		e.addIPHeader(r, hdr, size, params)
+	}
+
+	n, err := e.linkEP.WritePackets(r, gso, hdrs, payload, ProtocolNumber)
+	r.Stats().IP.PacketsSent.IncrementBy(uint64(n))
+	return n, err
+}
+
 // WriteHeaderIncludedPacker implements stack.NetworkEndpoint. It is not yet
 // supported by IPv6.
 func (*endpoint) WriteHeaderIncludedPacket(r *stack.Route, payload buffer.VectorisedView, loop stack.PacketLooping) *tcpip.Error {