Re: [PATCH] net: raise RCU qs after each threaded NAPI poll

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Feb 28 2024 - 12:48:00 EST

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On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 09:48:42AM -0600, Yan Zhai wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 9:10 AM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 12:50:53PM +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> > > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 05:44:17PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > >> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 4:44 PM Yan Zhai <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > We noticed task RCUs being blocked when threaded NAPIs are very busy in
> > > >> > production: detaching any BPF tracing programs, i.e. removing a ftrace
> > > >> > trampoline, will simply block for very long in rcu_tasks_wait_gp. This
> > > >> > ranges from hundreds of seconds to even an hour, severely harming any
> > > >> > observability tools that rely on BPF tracing programs. It can be
> > > >> > easily reproduced locally with following setup:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > ip netns add test1
> > > >> > ip netns add test2
> > > >> >
> > > >> > ip -n test1 link add veth1 type veth peer name veth2 netns test2
> > > >> >
> > > >> > ip -n test1 link set veth1 up
> > > >> > ip -n test1 link set lo up
> > > >> > ip -n test2 link set veth2 up
> > > >> > ip -n test2 link set lo up
> > > >> >
> > > >> > ip -n test1 addr add 192.168.1.2/31 dev veth1
> > > >> > ip -n test1 addr add 1.1.1.1/32 dev lo
> > > >> > ip -n test2 addr add 192.168.1.3/31 dev veth2
> > > >> > ip -n test2 addr add 2.2.2.2/31 dev lo
> > > >> >
> > > >> > ip -n test1 route add default via 192.168.1.3
> > > >> > ip -n test2 route add default via 192.168.1.2
> > > >> >
> > > >> > for i in `seq 10 210`; do
> > > >> > for j in `seq 10 210`; do
> > > >> > ip netns exec test2 iptables -I INPUT -s 3.3.$i.$j -p udp --dport 5201
> > > >> > done
> > > >> > done
> > > >> >
> > > >> > ip netns exec test2 ethtool -K veth2 gro on
> > > >> > ip netns exec test2 bash -c 'echo 1 > /sys/class/net/veth2/threaded'
> > > >> > ip netns exec test1 ethtool -K veth1 tso off
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Then run an iperf3 client/server and a bpftrace script can trigger it:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > ip netns exec test2 iperf3 -s -B 2.2.2.2 >/dev/null&
> > > >> > ip netns exec test1 iperf3 -c 2.2.2.2 -B 1.1.1.1 -u -l 1500 -b 3g -t 100 >/dev/null&
> > > >> > bpftrace -e 'kfunc:__napi_poll{@=count();} interval:s:1{exit();}'
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Above reproduce for net-next kernel with following RCU and preempt
> > > >> > configuraitons:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > # RCU Subsystem
> > > >> > CONFIG_TREE_RCU=y
> > > >> > CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y
> > > >> > # CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT is not set
> > > >> > CONFIG_SRCU=y
> > > >> > CONFIG_TREE_SRCU=y
> > > >> > CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC=y
> > > >> > CONFIG_TASKS_RCU=y
> > > >> > CONFIG_TASKS_RUDE_RCU=y
> > > >> > CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU=y
> > > >> > CONFIG_RCU_STALL_COMMON=y
> > > >> > CONFIG_RCU_NEED_SEGCBLIST=y
> > > >> > # end of RCU Subsystem
> > > >> > # RCU Debugging
> > > >> > # CONFIG_RCU_SCALE_TEST is not set
> > > >> > # CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST is not set
> > > >> > # CONFIG_RCU_REF_SCALE_TEST is not set
> > > >> > CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=21
> > > >> > CONFIG_RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=0
> > > >> > # CONFIG_RCU_TRACE is not set
> > > >> > # CONFIG_RCU_EQS_DEBUG is not set
> > > >> > # end of RCU Debugging
> > > >> >
> > > >> > CONFIG_PREEMPT_BUILD=y
> > > >> > # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set
> > > >> > CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
> > > >> > # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set
> > > >> > CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y
> > > >> > CONFIG_PREEMPTION=y
> > > >> > CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=y
> > > >> > CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y
> > > >> > CONFIG_HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=y
> > > >> > CONFIG_HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL=y
> > > >> > CONFIG_PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS=y
> > > >> > # CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is not set
> > > >> > # CONFIG_PREEMPT_TRACER is not set
> > > >> > # CONFIG_PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST is not set
> > > >> >
> > > >> > An interesting observation is that, while tasks RCUs are blocked,
> > > >> > related NAPI thread is still being scheduled (even across cores)
> > > >> > regularly. Looking at the gp conditions, I am inclining to cond_resched
> > > >> > after each __napi_poll being the problem: cond_resched enters the
> > > >> > scheduler with PREEMPT bit, which does not account as a gp for tasks
> > > >> > RCUs. Meanwhile, since the thread has been frequently resched, the
> > > >> > normal scheduling point (no PREEMPT bit, accounted as a task RCU gp)
> > > >> > seems to have very little chance to kick in. Given the nature of "busy
> > > >> > polling" program, such NAPI thread won't have task->nvcsw or task->on_rq
> > > >> > updated (other gp conditions), the result is that such NAPI thread is
> > > >> > put on RCU holdouts list for indefinitely long time.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > This is simply fixed by mirroring the ksoftirqd behavior: after
> > > >> > NAPI/softirq work, raise a RCU QS to help expedite the RCU period. No
> > > >> > more blocking afterwards for the same setup.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Fixes: 29863d41bb6e ("net: implement threaded-able napi poll loop support")
> > > >> > Signed-off-by: Yan Zhai <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >> > ---
> > > >> > net/core/dev.c | 4 ++++
> > > >> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > > >> >
> > > >> > diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> > > >> > index 275fd5259a4a..6e41263ff5d3 100644
> > > >> > --- a/net/core/dev.c
> > > >> > +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> > > >> > @@ -6773,6 +6773,10 @@ static int napi_threaded_poll(void *data)
> > > >> > net_rps_action_and_irq_enable(sd);
> > > >> > }
> > > >> > skb_defer_free_flush(sd);
> > > >
> > > > Please put a comment here stating that RCU readers cannot cross
> > > > this point.
> > > >
> > > > I need to add lockdep to rcu_softirq_qs() to catch placing this in an
> > > > RCU read-side critical section. And a header comment noting that from
> > > > an RCU perspective, it acts as a momentary enabling of preemption.
> > >
> > > OK, so one question here: for XDP, we're basically treating
> > > local_bh_disable/enable() as the RCU critical section, cf the discussion
> > > we had a few years ago that led to this being documented[0]. So why is
> > > it OK to have the rcu_softirq_qs() inside the bh disable/enable pair,
> > > but not inside an rcu_read_lock() section?
> >
> > In general, it is not OK. And it is not OK in this case if this happens
> > to be one of the local_bh_disable() regions that XDP is waiting on.
> > Except that that region ends right after the rcu_softirq_qs(), so that
> > should not be a problem.
> >
> > But you are quite right, that is an accident waiting to happen, so it
> > would be better if the patch did something like this:
> >
> > local_bh_enable();
> > if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)) {
> > preempt_disable();
> > rcu_softirq_qs();
> > preempt_enable();
> > }
> >
> Yeah we need preempt for this call. When I first attempt it after
> local_bh_enable, I got the bug call:
> [ 1166.384279] BUG: using __this_cpu_read() in preemptible [00000000]
> code: napi/veth2-66/8439
> [ 1166.385337] caller is rcu_softirq_qs+0x16/0x130
> [ 1166.385900] CPU: 3 PID: 8439 Comm: napi/veth2-66 Not tainted
> 6.7.0-rc8-g3fbf61207c66-dirty #75
> [ 1166.386950] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
> BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
> [ 1166.388110] Call Trace:
> [ 1166.388417] <TASK>
> [ 1166.388684] dump_stack_lvl+0x36/0x50
> [ 1166.389147] check_preemption_disabled+0xd1/0xe0
> [ 1166.389725] rcu_softirq_qs+0x16/0x130
> [ 1166.390190] napi_threaded_poll+0x21e/0x260
> [ 1166.390702] ? __pfx_napi_threaded_poll+0x10/0x10
> [ 1166.391277] kthread+0xf7/0x130
> [ 1166.391643] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
> [ 1166.392130] ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50
> [ 1166.392574] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
> [ 1166.393048] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
> [ 1166.393530] </TASK>
>
> Since this patch is trying to mirror what __do_softirq has, should the
> similar notes/changes apply to that side as well?

Up to now, the rcu_softirq_qs() was a special function strictly for
use by __do_softirq(), hence the lack of documentation. I will let
the __do_softirq() maintainers decide what they would like to do there,
if anything.

Thanx, Paul

> > Though maybe something like this would be better:
> >
> > local_bh_enable();
> > if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
> > rcu_softirq_qs_enable(local_bh_enable());
> > else
> > local_bh_enable();
> >
> > A bit ugly, but it does allow exact checking of the rules and also
> > avoids extra overhead.
> >
> > I could imagine pulling the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT check into the body of
> > rcu_softirq_qs_enable().
> >
> > But is there a better way?
> >
> > > Also, looking at the patch in question:
> > >
> > > >> > + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
> > > >> > + rcu_softirq_qs();
> > > >> > +
> > > >> > local_bh_enable();
> > >
> > > Why does that local_bh_enable() not accomplish the same thing as the qs?
> >
> > In this case, because it does not create the appearance of a voluntary
> > context switch needed by RCU Tasks. So the wait for trampoline evacuation
> > could still take a very long time.
> >
> > Thanx, Paul
> >
> > > -Toke
> > >
> > > [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-6-toke@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > >

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