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Subject: Re: [RFC 00/12] io_uring zerocopy send
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To:     Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
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From:   Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
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On 12/1/21 21:51, Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 08:15:28PM +0000, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> On 12/1/21 19:20, David Ahern wrote:
>>> On 12/1/21 12:11 PM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>>> btw, why a dummy device would ever go through loopback? It doesn't
>>>> seem to make sense, though may be missing something.
>>>
>>> You are sending to a local ip address, so the fib_lookup returns
>>> RTN_LOCAL. The code makes dev_out the loopback:
>>>
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/tree/net/ipv4/route.c#n2773
>>
>> I see, thanks. I still don't use the skb_orphan_frags_rx() hack
>> and it doesn't go through the loopback (for my dummy tests), just
>> dummy_xmit() and no mention of loopback in perf data, see the
>> flamegraph. Don't know what is the catch.
>>
>> I'm illiterate of the routing paths. Can it be related to
>> the "ip route add"? How do you get an ipv4 address for the device?
> I also bumped into the udp-connect() => ECONNREFUSED (111) error from send-zc.
> because I assumed no server is needed by using dummy.  Then realized
> the cover letter mentioned msg_zerocopy is used as the server.
> Mentioning just in case someone hits it also.
> 
> To tx out dummy, I did:
> #> ip a add 10.0.0.1/24 dev dummy0

Works well for me, IOW getting the same behaviour as with my
ip route add <ip> dev dummy0

I'm curious what is the difference bw them?


> #> ip -4 r
> 10.0.0.0/24 dev dummy0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.1
> 
> #> ./send-zc -4 -D 10.0.0.(2) -t 10 udp
> ip -s link show dev dummy0
> 2: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65535 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>     link/ether 82:0f:e0:dc:f7:e6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     RX:    bytes packets errors dropped  missed   mcast
>                0       0      0       0       0       0
>     TX:    bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns
>     140800890299 2150397      0       0       0       0
> 

-- 
Pavel Begunkov