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
Andrei Vagin