From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: passt.top; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=gibson.dropbear.id.au Authentication-Results: passt.top; dkim=pass (2048-bit key; secure) header.d=gibson.dropbear.id.au header.i=@gibson.dropbear.id.au header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=202602 header.b=QhKxcJXQ; dkim-atps=neutral Received: from mail.ozlabs.org (gandalf.ozlabs.org [150.107.74.76]) by passt.top (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 525D15A0275 for ; Wed, 20 May 2026 15:08:57 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gibson.dropbear.id.au; s=202602; t=1779282534; bh=aSKC/WrO6ech4NeHngZj5HQKP3TK/YO0tcfpG9C8oog=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=QhKxcJXQK8eUoHs2xoeyChfO0ZFlM3hwGmyuS7GWDFf2RdvWy3eS75/AlQYuGPUFH zNaJveO3g6UclabS2QxOWz7RXg9Mpozx49CSTWBykVbudUwRffHOTl/7SoW+706Lys UJxNrkxkMHhoIGhDvmxa++o0TsPZanBnwYf1KHheOlWKslBiIR1Q/OCibZ4AUM+A/e lv6q3odtopppzOJx2xclLJB+sagOekaz8ArUtCZVtMJqCnn1XiiezD69i/Rms5Kccn fEBSV358pgbe2xVgV6T0Ys1Z6dH84uV+Y729LkPBNkeEmDIUFt8ryIJgOlbq8QVT8f ANlxX4jYu7pDQ== Received: by gandalf.ozlabs.org (Postfix, from userid 1007) id 4gLBgp1ZQbz59Fx; Wed, 20 May 2026 23:08:54 +1000 (AEST) From: David Gibson To: passt-dev@passt.top, Stefano Brivio Subject: [PATCH 4/6] tcp_splice: Simplify tracking of read/written bytes Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 23:08:49 +1000 Message-ID: <20260520130851.436931-5-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.54.0 In-Reply-To: <20260520130851.436931-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> References: <20260520130851.436931-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID-Hash: DLQSLPYZAH2FVEVHMVF4ZFT2S7LT5ZHX X-Message-ID-Hash: DLQSLPYZAH2FVEVHMVF4ZFT2S7LT5ZHX X-MailFrom: dgibson@gandalf.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: Paul Holzinger , David Gibson X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.8 Precedence: list List-Id: Development discussion and patches for passt Archived-At: Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: For each each direction of each spliced connection, we keep track of how many bytes we've read from one socket and written to the other. However, we never actually care about the absolute values of these, only the difference between them, which represents how much data is currently "in flight" in the splicing pipe. Simplify the handling by having a single variable tracking the number of bytes in the pipe. As a bonus, the new scheme makes it clearer that we don't need to worry about overflows: pending can never become larger than the maximum pipe bufffer size, well within 32-bits. I _think_ the old scheme was safe in the case of overflow - again under the assumption that read/written can never be further apart than the pipe buffer size. However, it's much harder to reason about this case. It's certainly plausible that an overflow could occur - sending 4GiB through a local socket is entirely achievable. Signed-off-by: David Gibson --- tcp_conn.h | 6 ++---- tcp_splice.c | 18 +++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/tcp_conn.h b/tcp_conn.h index 9f5bee03..c8381aa7 100644 --- a/tcp_conn.h +++ b/tcp_conn.h @@ -206,8 +206,7 @@ struct tcp_tap_transfer_ext { * @f: Generic flow information * @s: File descriptor for sockets * @pipe: File descriptors for pipes - * @read: Bytes read (not fully written to other side in one shot) - * @written: Bytes written (not fully written from one other side read) + * @pending: Bytes currently in each pipe * @events: Events observed/actions performed on connection * @flags: Connection flags (attributes, not events) */ @@ -218,8 +217,7 @@ struct tcp_splice_conn { int s[SIDES]; int pipe[SIDES][2]; - uint32_t read[SIDES]; - uint32_t written[SIDES]; + uint32_t pending[SIDES]; uint8_t events; #define SPLICE_CLOSED 0 diff --git a/tcp_splice.c b/tcp_splice.c index 18e8b303..8fbd490f 100644 --- a/tcp_splice.c +++ b/tcp_splice.c @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ bool tcp_splice_flow_defer(struct tcp_splice_conn *conn) conn->s[sidei] = -1; } - conn->read[sidei] = conn->written[sidei] = 0; + conn->pending[sidei] = 0; } conn->events = SPLICE_CLOSED; @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ static int tcp_splice_forward(struct ctx *c, struct int eof = 0; while (1) { - ssize_t readlen, written, pending; + ssize_t readlen, written; int more = 0; retry: @@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ retry: flow_trace(conn, "%zi from write-side call (passed %zi)", written, c->tcp.pipe_size); - /* Most common case: skip updating counters. */ + /* Most common case: skip updating pending. */ if (readlen > 0 && readlen == written) { if (readlen >= (long)c->tcp.pipe_size * 10 / 100) continue; @@ -561,11 +561,11 @@ retry: continue; } - conn->read[fromsidei] += readlen > 0 ? readlen : 0; - conn->written[fromsidei] += written > 0 ? written : 0; + conn->pending[fromsidei] += readlen > 0 ? readlen : 0; + conn->pending[fromsidei] -= written > 0 ? written : 0; if (written < 0) { - if (conn->read[fromsidei] == conn->written[fromsidei]) + if (!conn->pending[fromsidei]) break; conn_event(conn, OUT_WAIT(!fromsidei)); @@ -575,15 +575,15 @@ retry: if (never_read && written == (long)(c->tcp.pipe_size)) goto retry; - pending = conn->read[fromsidei] - conn->written[fromsidei]; - if (!never_read && written > 0 && written < pending) + if (!never_read && written > 0 && + written < conn->pending[fromsidei]) goto retry; if (eof) break; } - if (conn->read[fromsidei] == conn->written[fromsidei] && eof) { + if (!conn->pending[fromsidei] && eof) { unsigned sidei; flow_foreach_sidei(sidei) { -- 2.54.0