Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 2/6] virtio: introduce virtio_enable_cb_avail()
From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Wed Oct 15 2014 - 07:39:59 EST
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 06:58:15PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> On 10/15/2014 06:41 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 06:19:15PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> >> On 10/15/2014 05:28 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 03:25:26PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> >>>> This patch introduces virtio_enable_cb_avail() to publish avail idx
> >>>> and used event. This could be used by batched buffer submitting to
> >>>> reduce the number of tx interrupts.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
> >>>> include/linux/virtio.h | 2 ++
> >>>> 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> >>>> index 1b3929f..d67fbf8 100644
> >>>> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> >>>> @@ -567,14 +567,32 @@ unsigned virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare(struct virtqueue *_vq)
> >>>> * entry. Always do both to keep code simple. */
> >>>> vq->vring.avail->flags &= ~VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT;
> >>>> /* Make sure used event never go backwards */
> >>>> - if (!vring_need_event(vring_used_event(&vq->vring),
> >>>> - vq->vring.avail->idx, last_used_idx))
> >>>> + if (vq->vring.avail->idx != vring_used_event(&vq->vring) &&
> >>>> + !vring_need_event(vring_used_event(&vq->vring),
> >>>> + vq->vring.avail->idx, last_used_idx)) {
> >>>> vring_used_event(&vq->vring) = last_used_idx;
> >>>> + }
> >>>> END_USE(vq);
> >>>> return last_used_idx;
> >>>> }
> >>>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare);
> >>>>
> >>> I see you are also changing virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare, why?
> >> This is also used to prevent it from moving the used event backwards.
> >> This may happens when we handle tx napi after we publish avail idx as
> >> used event (virtqueue_enable_cb_avail() was called).
> > So it's wrong exactly in the same way.
> >
> > But also, please document this stuff, don't put
> > unrelated changes in a patch called "introduce
> > virtqueue_enable_cb_avail".
> >
> >
> >>>> +bool virtqueue_enable_cb_avail(struct virtqueue *_vq)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> + struct vring_virtqueue *vq = to_vvq(_vq);
> >>>> + bool ret;
> >>>> +
> >>>> + START_USE(vq);
> >>>> + vq->vring.avail->flags &= ~VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT;
> >>>> + vring_used_event(&vq->vring) = vq->vring.avail->idx;
> >>>> + ret = vring_need_event(vq->vring.avail->idx,
> >>>> + vq->last_used_idx, vq->vring.used->idx);
> >>>> + END_USE(vq);
> >>>> +
> >>>> + return ret;
> >>>> +}
> >>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtqueue_enable_cb_avail);
> >>>> +
> >>>> /**
> >>>> * virtqueue_poll - query pending used buffers
> >>>> * @vq: the struct virtqueue we're talking about.
> >>> Could not figure out what this does.
> >>> Please add documentation.
> >>>
> >> Sure, does something like below explain what does this function do?
> >>
> >> /**
> >>
> >> * virtqueue_enable_cb_avail - restart callbacks after
> >> disable_cb.
> >> * @vq: the struct virtqueue we're talking
> >> about.
> >> *
> >>
> >> * This re-enables callbacks but hints to the other side to
> >> delay
> >> * interrupts all of the available buffers have been processed;
> >
> > So this is like virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed but even more
> > aggressive?
> > I think it's too agressive: it's better to wake up guest
> > after you are through most of buffers, but not all,
> > so guest and host can work in parallel.
>
> Note that:
>
> - it was only used when there are still few of free slots (which is
> greater than 2 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
> - my patch keeps the free_old_xmit_skbs() in the beginning of
> start_xmit(), so the tx skb reclaiming does not depends totally on tx
> interrupt. If more packets comes, we'd expect some of them were freed in
> ndo_start_xmit(). If not, finally we may trigger the
> virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed().
>
> So probably not as aggressive as it looks. I will do benchmark on this.
Mine too:
} else if (virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed(sq->vq)) {
free_old_xmit_skbs(txq, sq, qsize);
}
> >
> >
> >> * it returns "false" if there are at least one pending buffer in the
> >> queue,
> >> * to detect a possible race between the driver checking for more
> >> work,
> >> * and enabling
> >> callbacks.
> >> *
> >>
> >> * Caller must ensure we don't call this with other
> >> virtqueue
> >> * operations at the same time (except where
> >> noted).
> >> */
> >>
> >>>> diff --git a/include/linux/virtio.h b/include/linux/virtio.h
> >>>> index b46671e..bfaf058 100644
> >>>> --- a/include/linux/virtio.h
> >>>> +++ b/include/linux/virtio.h
> >>>> @@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ bool virtqueue_enable_cb(struct virtqueue *vq);
> >>>>
> >>>> unsigned virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare(struct virtqueue *vq);
> >>>>
> >>>> +bool virtqueue_enable_cb_avail(struct virtqueue *vq);
> >>>> +
> >>>> bool virtqueue_poll(struct virtqueue *vq, unsigned);
> >>>>
> >>>> bool virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed(struct virtqueue *vq);
> >>>> --
> >>>> 1.7.1
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