Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] virtio-net: bql support

[Jason Wang]

On 2018/12/31 äå2:48, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 06:04:53PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > On 2018/12/26 äå11:22, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 04:17:36PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > > On 2018/12/6 äå6:54, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > > When use_napi is set, let's enable BQLs.  Note: some of the issues are
> > > > > similar to wifi.  It's worth considering whether something similar to
> > > > > commit 36148c2bbfbe ("mac80211: Adjust TSQ pacing shift") might be
> > > > > benefitial.
> > > > I've played a similar patch several days before. The tricky part is the mode
> > > > switching between napi and no napi. We should make sure when the packet is
> > > > sent and trakced by BQL, it should be consumed by BQL as well.
> > > I just went over the patch again and I don't understand this comment.
> > > This patch only enabled BQL with tx napi.
> > >
> > > Thus there's no mode switching.
> > >
> > > What did I miss?
> > Consider the case:
> >
> >
> > TX NAPI is disabled:
> >
> > send N packets
> >
> > turn TX NAPI on:
> >
> > get tx interrupt
> >
> > BQL try to consume those packets when lead WARN for dql.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> Can one really switch tx napi on and off? How?
> While root can change the napi_tx module parameter, I don't think
> that has any effect outside device probe time. What did I miss?

We support switch the mode through ethtool recently. See

commit 0c465be183c7c57a26446df6ea96d8676b865f92
Author: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:ÂÂ Tue Oct 9 10:06:26 2018 +0800

ÂÂÂ virtio_net: ethtool tx napi configuration

ÂÂÂ Implement ethtool .set_coalesce (-C) and .get_coalesce (-c) handlers.
ÂÂÂ Interrupt moderation is currently not supported, so these accept and
ÂÂÂ display the default settings of 0 usec and 1 frame.

ÂÂÂ Toggle tx napi through setting tx-frames. So as to not interfere
ÂÂÂ with possible future interrupt moderation, value 1 means tx napi while
ÂÂÂ value 0 means not.

ÂÂÂ Only allow the switching when device is down for simplicity.

ÂÂÂ Link: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/948149/
ÂÂÂ Suggested-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
ÂÂÂ Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>
ÂÂÂ Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
ÂÂÂ Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks