Re: [PATCH net-next] virito-net: set queues after reset during xdp_set

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Sun Feb 19 2017 - 19:12:26 EST


On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 03:30:51PM -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
> On 17-02-16 09:10 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2017å02æ17æ 12:53, John Fastabend wrote:
> >> On 17-02-15 01:08 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
> >>> We set queues before reset which will cause a crash[1]. This is
> >>> because is_xdp_raw_buffer_queue() depends on the old xdp queue pairs
> >>> number to do the correct detection. So fix this by:
> >>>
> >>> - set queues after reset, to keep the old vi->curr_queue_pairs. (in
> >>> fact setting queues before reset does not works since after feature
> >>> set, all queue pairs were enabled by default during reset).
> >>> - change xdp_queue_pairs only after virtnet_reset() is succeed.
> >>>
> >>> [1]
> >> I'm guessing this occurs when enabling XDP while receiving lots of traffic?
> >
> > I hit this then disabling XDP while receiving lots of traffic.
> >
>
> [...]
>
> >>> + vi->xdp_queue_pairs = xdp_qp;
> >> But xdp_queue_pairs is being used to detect if we should allocate the XDP
> >> headroom. If we move it here do we have a set of buffers in the ring without
> >> the proper headroom when we assign the xdp program below?
> >
> > Right, so how about passing xdp_queue_pairs as a parameter to virtnet_reset().
> > Then virtnet_reset() can set it after _remove_vq_common() but before
> > virtnet_restore_up()?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
> Sounds like a reasonable fix to me.

I'm fine with that.

> >>
> >>> + }
> >>> +
> >>> + err = _virtnet_set_queues(vi, curr_qp + xdp_qp);
> >>> + if (err) {
> >>> + dev_warn(&dev->dev, "XDP Device queue allocation failure.\n");
> >>> + goto virtio_queue_err;
> >>> }
> >>> netif_set_real_num_rx_queues(dev, curr_qp + xdp_qp);
> >>> @@ -1844,17 +1844,18 @@ static int virtnet_xdp_set(struct net_device *dev,
> >>> struct bpf_prog *prog)
> >>> return 0;
> >> Thanks,
> >> John
> >>
> >