After reducing UDP stack traversal overhead via GSO and GRO,
runtime.chanrecv() began to account for a high percentage (20% in one
environment) of perf samples during a throughput benchmark. The
individual packet channel ops with the crypto goroutines was the primary
contributor to this overhead.
Updating these channels to pass vectors, which the device package
already handles at its ends, reduced this overhead substantially, and
improved throughput.
The iperf3 results below demonstrate the effect of this commit between
two Linux computers with i5-12400 CPUs. There is roughly ~13us of round
trip latency between them.
The first result is with UDP GSO and GRO, and with single element
channels.
Starting Test: protocol: TCP, 1 streams, 131072 byte blocks
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 12.3 GBytes 10.6 Gbits/sec 232 3.15 MBytes
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Test Complete. Summary Results:
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 12.3 GBytes 10.6 Gbits/sec 232 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.04 sec 12.3 GBytes 10.6 Gbits/sec receiver
The second result is with channels updated to pass a slice of
elements.
Starting Test: protocol: TCP, 1 streams, 131072 byte blocks
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 13.2 GBytes 11.3 Gbits/sec 182 3.15 MBytes
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Test Complete. Summary Results:
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 13.2 GBytes 11.3 Gbits/sec 182 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.04 sec 13.2 GBytes 11.3 Gbits/sec receiver
Reviewed-by: Adrian Dewhurst <adrian@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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