On 5/3/24 6:48 PM, John Fastabend wrote:
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In the first patch,
ebf2e8860eea ("tcp_bpf: Inline do_tcp_sendpages as it's now a wrapper around tcp_sendmsg")
This block of code is added to tcp_bpf_push(). The tcp_bpf_push is the code used by BPF to submit messages into the TCP stack.
if (flags & MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST) msghdr.msg_flags | MSG_MORE;
In the second patch,
f8dd95b29d7e ("tcp_bpf, smc, tls, espintcp, siw: Reduce MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST usage")
this logic was further changed to,
if (flags & MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST) msghdr.msg_flags |= MSG_MORE
This was done as part of an improvement to use the sendmsg() callbacks and remove the sendpage usage inside the various sub systems.
However, these two patches together fixed a bug. The issue is without MSG_MORE set we will break a msg up into many smaller sends. In some case a lot because the operation loops over the scatter gather list. Without the MSG_MORE set (the current 6.1 case) we see stalls in data send/recv and sometimes applications failing to receive data. This generally is the result of an application that gives up after calling recv() or similar too many times. We introduce this because of how we incorrectly change the TCP send pattern.
Now that we have both 6.5 and 6.1 stable kernels deployed we've observed a series of issues related to this in real deployments. In 6.5 kernels all the HTTP and other compliance tests pass and we are not observing any other issues. On 6.1 various compliance tests fail (nginx for example), but more importantly in these clusters without the flag set we observe stalled applications and increased retries in other applications. Openssl users where we have annotations to monitor retries and failures observed a significant increase in retries for example.
For the backport we isolated the fix to the two lines in the above patches that fixed the code. With this patch we deployed the workloads again and error rates and stalls went away and 6.1 stable kernels perform similar to 6.5 stable kernels. Similarly the compliance tests also passed.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.1.x Fixes: 604326b41a6fb ("tcp_bpf, smc, tls, espintcp, siw: Reduce MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST usage") Signed-off-by: John Fastabend john.fastabend@gmail.com
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net