From bd2cd4a441ded163b62371790876f28a9b834317 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Westphal Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:47:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] nbd/server: push pending frames after sending reply qemu-nbd doesn't set TCP_NODELAY on the tcp socket. Kernel waits for more data and avoids transmission of small packets. Without TLS this is barely noticeable, but with TLS this really shows. Booting a VM via qemu-nbd on localhost (with tls) takes more than 2 minutes on my system. tcpdump shows frequent wait periods, where no packets get sent for a 40ms period. Add explicit (un)corking when processing (and responding to) requests. "TCP_CORK, &zero" after earlier "CORK, &one" will flush pending data. VM Boot time: main: no tls: 23s, with tls: 2m45s patched: no tls: 14s, with tls: 15s VM Boot time, qemu-nbd via network (same lan): main: no tls: 18s, with tls: 1m50s patched: no tls: 17s, with tls: 18s Future optimization: if we could detect if there is another pending request we could defer the uncork operation because more data would be appended. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Message-Id: <20230324104720.2498-1-fw@strlen.de> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf --- nbd/server.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/nbd/server.c b/nbd/server.c index a4750e4188..848836d414 100644 --- a/nbd/server.c +++ b/nbd/server.c @@ -2667,6 +2667,8 @@ static coroutine_fn void nbd_trip(void *opaque) goto disconnect; } + qio_channel_set_cork(client->ioc, true); + if (ret < 0) { /* It wasn't -EIO, so, according to nbd_co_receive_request() * semantics, we should return the error to the client. */ @@ -2692,6 +2694,7 @@ static coroutine_fn void nbd_trip(void *opaque) goto disconnect; } + qio_channel_set_cork(client->ioc, false); done: nbd_request_put(req); nbd_client_put(client);