Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] vsock/virtio: limit the memory used per-socket

From: Stefano Garzarella
Date: Mon May 13 2019 - 12:42:09 EST


On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 12:57:48PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 02:58:36PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > Since virtio-vsock was introduced, the buffers filled by the host
> > and pushed to the guest using the vring, are directly queued in
> > a per-socket list avoiding to copy it.
> > These buffers are preallocated by the guest with a fixed
> > size (4 KB).
> >
> > The maximum amount of memory used by each socket should be
> > controlled by the credit mechanism.
> > The default credit available per-socket is 256 KB, but if we use
> > only 1 byte per packet, the guest can queue up to 262144 of 4 KB
> > buffers, using up to 1 GB of memory per-socket. In addition, the
> > guest will continue to fill the vring with new 4 KB free buffers
> > to avoid starvation of other sockets.
> >
> > This patch solves this issue copying the payload in a new buffer.
> > Then it is queued in the per-socket list, and the 4KB buffer used
> > by the host is freed.
> >
> > In this way, the memory used by each socket respects the credit
> > available, and we still avoid starvation, paying the cost of an
> > extra memory copy. When the buffer is completely full we do a
> > "zero-copy", moving the buffer directly in the per-socket list.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 2 +
> > include/linux/virtio_vsock.h | 8 +++
> > net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 1 +
> > net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 95 ++++++++++++++++++-------
> > 4 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
> > index bb5fc0e9fbc2..7964e2daee09 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
> > @@ -320,6 +320,8 @@ vhost_vsock_alloc_pkt(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> > return NULL;
> > }
> >
> > + pkt->buf_len = pkt->len;
> > +
> > nbytes = copy_from_iter(pkt->buf, pkt->len, &iov_iter);
> > if (nbytes != pkt->len) {
> > vq_err(vq, "Expected %u byte payload, got %zu bytes\n",
> > diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h b/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
> > index e223e2632edd..345f04ee9193 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
> > @@ -54,9 +54,17 @@ struct virtio_vsock_pkt {
> > void *buf;
> > u32 len;
> > u32 off;
> > + u32 buf_len;
> > bool reply;
> > };
> >
> > +struct virtio_vsock_buf {
> > + struct list_head list;
> > + void *addr;
> > + u32 len;
> > + u32 off;
> > +};
> > +
> > struct virtio_vsock_pkt_info {
> > u32 remote_cid, remote_port;
> > struct vsock_sock *vsk;
> > diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
> > index 15eb5d3d4750..af1d2ce12f54 100644
> > --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
> > +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
> > @@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ static void virtio_vsock_rx_fill(struct virtio_vsock *vsock)
> > break;
> > }
> >
> > + pkt->buf_len = buf_len;
> > pkt->len = buf_len;
> >
> > sg_init_one(&hdr, &pkt->hdr, sizeof(pkt->hdr));
> > diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> > index 602715fc9a75..0248d6808755 100644
> > --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> > +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> > @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ virtio_transport_alloc_pkt(struct virtio_vsock_pkt_info *info,
> > pkt->buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
> > if (!pkt->buf)
> > goto out_pkt;
> > +
> > + pkt->buf_len = len;
> > +
> > err = memcpy_from_msg(pkt->buf, info->msg, len);
> > if (err)
> > goto out;
> > @@ -86,6 +89,46 @@ virtio_transport_alloc_pkt(struct virtio_vsock_pkt_info *info,
> > return NULL;
> > }
> >
> > +static struct virtio_vsock_buf *
> > +virtio_transport_alloc_buf(struct virtio_vsock_pkt *pkt, bool zero_copy)
> > +{
> > + struct virtio_vsock_buf *buf;
> > +
> > + if (pkt->len == 0)
> > + return NULL;
> > +
> > + buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*buf), GFP_KERNEL);
> > + if (!buf)
> > + return NULL;
> > +
> > + /* If the buffer in the virtio_vsock_pkt is full, we can move it to
> > + * the new virtio_vsock_buf avoiding the copy, because we are sure that
> > + * we are not use
>
> we do not use
>

Oh thanks! Will fix!

> > more memory than that counted by the credit mechanism.
> > + */
> > + if (zero_copy && pkt->len == pkt->buf_len) {
> > + buf->addr = pkt->buf;
> > + pkt->buf = NULL;
> > + } else {
> > + buf->addr = kmalloc(pkt->len, GFP_KERNEL);
> > + if (!buf->addr) {
> > + kfree(buf);
> > + return NULL;
> > + }
> > +
> > + memcpy(buf->addr, pkt->buf, pkt->len);
> > + }
> > +
> > + buf->len = pkt->len;
> > +
> > + return buf;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void virtio_transport_free_buf(struct virtio_vsock_buf *buf)
> > +{
> > + kfree(buf->addr);
> > + kfree(buf);
> > +}
> > +
> > /* Packet capture */
> > static struct sk_buff *virtio_transport_build_skb(void *opaque)
> > {
> > @@ -190,17 +233,15 @@ static int virtio_transport_send_pkt_info(struct vsock_sock *vsk,
> > return virtio_transport_get_ops()->send_pkt(pkt);
> > }
> >
> > -static void virtio_transport_inc_rx_pkt(struct virtio_vsock_sock *vvs,
> > - struct virtio_vsock_pkt *pkt)
> > +static void virtio_transport_inc_rx_pkt(struct virtio_vsock_sock *vvs, u32 len)
> > {
> > - vvs->rx_bytes += pkt->len;
> > + vvs->rx_bytes += len;
> > }
> >
> > -static void virtio_transport_dec_rx_pkt(struct virtio_vsock_sock *vvs,
> > - struct virtio_vsock_pkt *pkt)
> > +static void virtio_transport_dec_rx_pkt(struct virtio_vsock_sock *vvs, u32 len)
> > {
> > - vvs->rx_bytes -= pkt->len;
> > - vvs->fwd_cnt += pkt->len;
> > + vvs->rx_bytes -= len;
> > + vvs->fwd_cnt += len;
> > }
> >
> > void virtio_transport_inc_tx_pkt(struct virtio_vsock_sock *vvs, struct virtio_vsock_pkt *pkt)
> > @@ -254,36 +295,36 @@ virtio_transport_stream_do_dequeue(struct vsock_sock *vsk,
> > size_t len)
> > {
> > struct virtio_vsock_sock *vvs = vsk->trans;
> > - struct virtio_vsock_pkt *pkt;
> > + struct virtio_vsock_buf *buf;
> > size_t bytes, total = 0;
> > int err = -EFAULT;
> >
> > spin_lock_bh(&vvs->rx_lock);
> > while (total < len && !list_empty(&vvs->rx_queue)) {
> > - pkt = list_first_entry(&vvs->rx_queue,
> > - struct virtio_vsock_pkt, list);
> > + buf = list_first_entry(&vvs->rx_queue,
> > + struct virtio_vsock_buf, list);
> >
> > bytes = len - total;
> > - if (bytes > pkt->len - pkt->off)
> > - bytes = pkt->len - pkt->off;
> > + if (bytes > buf->len - buf->off)
> > + bytes = buf->len - buf->off;
> >
> > /* sk_lock is held by caller so no one else can dequeue.
> > * Unlock rx_lock since memcpy_to_msg() may sleep.
> > */
> > spin_unlock_bh(&vvs->rx_lock);
> >
> > - err = memcpy_to_msg(msg, pkt->buf + pkt->off, bytes);
> > + err = memcpy_to_msg(msg, buf->addr + buf->off, bytes);
> > if (err)
> > goto out;
> >
> > spin_lock_bh(&vvs->rx_lock);
> >
> > total += bytes;
> > - pkt->off += bytes;
> > - if (pkt->off == pkt->len) {
> > - virtio_transport_dec_rx_pkt(vvs, pkt);
> > - list_del(&pkt->list);
> > - virtio_transport_free_pkt(pkt);
> > + buf->off += bytes;
> > + if (buf->off == buf->len) {
> > + virtio_transport_dec_rx_pkt(vvs, buf->len);
> > + list_del(&buf->list);
> > + virtio_transport_free_buf(buf);
> > }
> > }
> > spin_unlock_bh(&vvs->rx_lock);
> > @@ -841,20 +882,24 @@ virtio_transport_recv_connected(struct sock *sk,
> > {
> > struct vsock_sock *vsk = vsock_sk(sk);
> > struct virtio_vsock_sock *vvs = vsk->trans;
> > + struct virtio_vsock_buf *buf;
> > int err = 0;
> >
> > switch (le16_to_cpu(pkt->hdr.op)) {
> > case VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_RW:
> > pkt->len = le32_to_cpu(pkt->hdr.len);
> > - pkt->off = 0;
> > + buf = virtio_transport_alloc_buf(pkt, true);
>
>
> This seems to be the only callers and second parameter
> is always true. So why is it needed?

Right. It was a leftover, I'll remove it.

>
> >
> > - spin_lock_bh(&vvs->rx_lock);
> > - virtio_transport_inc_rx_pkt(vvs, pkt);
> > - list_add_tail(&pkt->list, &vvs->rx_queue);
> > - spin_unlock_bh(&vvs->rx_lock);
> > + if (buf) {
> > + spin_lock_bh(&vvs->rx_lock);
> > + virtio_transport_inc_rx_pkt(vvs, pkt->len);
> > + list_add_tail(&buf->list, &vvs->rx_queue);
> > + spin_unlock_bh(&vvs->rx_lock);
> >
> > - sk->sk_data_ready(sk);
> > - return err;
> > + sk->sk_data_ready(sk);
> > + }
> > +
> > + break;
> > case VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_CREDIT_UPDATE:
> > sk->sk_write_space(sk);
> > break;

Thanks for the review,
Stefano