Re: [PATCH net-next v7] virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff

From: Stefano Garzarella
Date: Thu Dec 15 2022 - 03:32:04 EST


On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 11:58:47AM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 19:28 +0000, Bobby Eshleman wrote:
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
index 5703775af129..2a5994b029b2 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
@@ -51,8 +51,7 @@ struct vhost_vsock {
struct hlist_node hash;

struct vhost_work send_pkt_work;
- spinlock_t send_pkt_list_lock;
- struct list_head send_pkt_list; /* host->guest pending packets */
+ struct sk_buff_head send_pkt_queue; /* host->guest pending packets */

atomic_t queued_replies;

@@ -108,40 +107,33 @@ vhost_transport_do_send_pkt(struct vhost_vsock *vsock,
vhost_disable_notify(&vsock->dev, vq);

do {
- struct virtio_vsock_pkt *pkt;
+ struct virtio_vsock_hdr *hdr;
+ size_t iov_len, payload_len;
struct iov_iter iov_iter;
+ u32 flags_to_restore = 0;
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
unsigned out, in;
size_t nbytes;
- size_t iov_len, payload_len;
int head;
- u32 flags_to_restore = 0;

- spin_lock_bh(&vsock->send_pkt_list_lock);
- if (list_empty(&vsock->send_pkt_list)) {
- spin_unlock_bh(&vsock->send_pkt_list_lock);
+ spin_lock(&vsock->send_pkt_queue.lock);
+ skb = __skb_dequeue(&vsock->send_pkt_queue);
+ spin_unlock(&vsock->send_pkt_queue.lock);

Here you use a plain spin_lock(), but every other lock has the _bh()
variant. A few lines above this functions acquires a mutex, so this is
process context (and not BH context): I guess you should use _bh()
here, too.

Maybe we can use directly the new virtio_vsock_skb_dequeue().
IIRC we added it exactly to use the same kind of lock everywhere.

Thanks,
Stefano