[RFC PATCH net-next 5/6] virtio-net: enable tx interrupt

From: Jason Wang
Date: Wed Oct 15 2014 - 03:44:17 EST


Orphan skb in ndo_start_xmit() breaks socket accounting and packet
queuing. This in fact breaks lots of things such as pktgen and several
TCP optimizations. And also make BQL can't be implemented for
virtio-net.

This patch tries to solve this issue by enabling tx interrupt. To
avoid introducing extra spinlocks, a tx napi was scheduled to free
those packets.

More tx interrupt mitigation method could be used on top.

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 125 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
1 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index ccf98f9..2afc2e2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ struct send_queue {

/* Name of the send queue: output.$index */
char name[40];
+
+ struct napi_struct napi;
};

/* Internal representation of a receive virtqueue */
@@ -217,15 +219,40 @@ static struct page *get_a_page(struct receive_queue *rq, gfp_t gfp_mask)
return p;
}

+static int free_old_xmit_skbs(struct send_queue *sq, int budget)
+{
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
+ unsigned int len;
+ struct virtnet_info *vi = sq->vq->vdev->priv;
+ struct virtnet_stats *stats = this_cpu_ptr(vi->stats);
+ u64 tx_bytes = 0, tx_packets = 0;
+
+ while (tx_packets < budget &&
+ (skb = virtqueue_get_buf(sq->vq, &len)) != NULL) {
+ pr_debug("Sent skb %p\n", skb);
+
+ tx_bytes += skb->len;
+ tx_packets++;
+
+ dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+ }
+
+ u64_stats_update_begin(&stats->tx_syncp);
+ stats->tx_bytes += tx_bytes;
+ stats->tx_packets =+ tx_packets;
+ u64_stats_update_end(&stats->tx_syncp);
+
+ return tx_packets;
+}
+
static void skb_xmit_done(struct virtqueue *vq)
{
struct virtnet_info *vi = vq->vdev->priv;
+ struct send_queue *sq = &vi->sq[vq2txq(vq)];

- /* Suppress further interrupts. */
- virtqueue_disable_cb(vq);
-
- /* We were probably waiting for more output buffers. */
- netif_wake_subqueue(vi->dev, vq2txq(vq));
+ if (napi_schedule_prep(&sq->napi)) {
+ __napi_schedule(&sq->napi);
+ }
}

static unsigned int mergeable_ctx_to_buf_truesize(unsigned long mrg_ctx)
@@ -774,7 +801,39 @@ again:
return received;
}

+static int virtnet_poll_tx(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
+{
+ struct send_queue *sq =
+ container_of(napi, struct send_queue, napi);
+ struct virtnet_info *vi = sq->vq->vdev->priv;
+ struct netdev_queue *txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(vi->dev, vq2txq(sq->vq));
+ unsigned int r, sent = 0;
+
+again:
+ __netif_tx_lock(txq, smp_processor_id());
+ virtqueue_disable_cb(sq->vq);
+ sent += free_old_xmit_skbs(sq, budget - sent);
+
+ if (sent < budget) {
+ r = virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare(sq->vq);
+ napi_complete(napi);
+ __netif_tx_unlock(txq);
+ if (unlikely(virtqueue_poll(sq->vq, r)) &&
+ napi_schedule_prep(napi)) {
+ virtqueue_disable_cb(sq->vq);
+ __napi_schedule(napi);
+ goto again;
+ }
+ } else {
+ __netif_tx_unlock(txq);
+ }
+
+ netif_wake_subqueue(vi->dev, vq2txq(sq->vq));
+ return sent;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL
+
/* must be called with local_bh_disable()d */
static int virtnet_busy_poll(struct napi_struct *napi)
{
@@ -822,36 +881,12 @@ static int virtnet_open(struct net_device *dev)
if (!try_fill_recv(&vi->rq[i], GFP_KERNEL))
schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
virtnet_napi_enable(&vi->rq[i]);
+ napi_enable(&vi->sq[i].napi);
}

return 0;
}

-static int free_old_xmit_skbs(struct send_queue *sq)
-{
- struct sk_buff *skb;
- unsigned int len;
- struct virtnet_info *vi = sq->vq->vdev->priv;
- struct virtnet_stats *stats = this_cpu_ptr(vi->stats);
- u64 tx_bytes = 0, tx_packets = 0;
-
- while ((skb = virtqueue_get_buf(sq->vq, &len)) != NULL) {
- pr_debug("Sent skb %p\n", skb);
-
- tx_bytes += skb->len;
- tx_packets++;
-
- dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
- }
-
- u64_stats_update_begin(&stats->tx_syncp);
- stats->tx_bytes += tx_bytes;
- stats->tx_packets =+ tx_packets;
- u64_stats_update_end(&stats->tx_syncp);
-
- return tx_packets;
-}
-
static int xmit_skb(struct send_queue *sq, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct skb_vnet_hdr *hdr;
@@ -917,6 +952,7 @@ static int xmit_skb(struct send_queue *sq, struct sk_buff *skb)
sg_set_buf(sq->sg, hdr, hdr_len);
num_sg = skb_to_sgvec(skb, sq->sg + 1, 0, skb->len) + 1;
}
+
return virtqueue_add_outbuf(sq->vq, sq->sg, num_sg, skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
}

@@ -925,10 +961,11 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
int qnum = skb_get_queue_mapping(skb);
struct send_queue *sq = &vi->sq[qnum];
- int err;
+ int err, qsize = virtqueue_get_vring_size(sq->vq);

+ virtqueue_disable_cb(sq->vq);
/* Free up any pending old buffers before queueing new ones. */
- free_old_xmit_skbs(sq);
+ free_old_xmit_skbs(sq, qsize);

/* Try to transmit */
err = xmit_skb(sq, skb);
@@ -944,22 +981,20 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}

- /* Don't wait up for transmitted skbs to be freed. */
- skb_orphan(skb);
- nf_reset(skb);
-
/* Apparently nice girls don't return TX_BUSY; stop the queue
* before it gets out of hand. Naturally, this wastes entries. */
if (sq->vq->num_free < 2+MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
netif_stop_subqueue(dev, qnum);
if (unlikely(!virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed(sq->vq))) {
/* More just got used, free them then recheck. */
- free_old_xmit_skbs(sq);
+ free_old_xmit_skbs(sq, qsize);
if (sq->vq->num_free >= 2+MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
netif_start_subqueue(dev, qnum);
virtqueue_disable_cb(sq->vq);
}
}
+ } else if (virtqueue_enable_cb(sq->vq)) {
+ free_old_xmit_skbs(sq, qsize);
}

if (__netif_subqueue_stopped(dev, qnum) || !skb->xmit_more)
@@ -1141,8 +1176,10 @@ static int virtnet_close(struct net_device *dev)
/* Make sure refill_work doesn't re-enable napi! */
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&vi->refill);

- for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) {
napi_disable(&vi->rq[i].napi);
+ napi_disable(&vi->sq[i].napi);
+ }

return 0;
}
@@ -1461,8 +1498,10 @@ static void virtnet_free_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi)
{
int i;

- for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) {
netif_napi_del(&vi->rq[i].napi);
+ netif_napi_del(&vi->sq[i].napi);
+ }

kfree(vi->rq);
kfree(vi->sq);
@@ -1616,6 +1655,8 @@ static int virtnet_alloc_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi)
netif_napi_add(vi->dev, &vi->rq[i].napi, virtnet_poll,
napi_weight);
napi_hash_add(&vi->rq[i].napi);
+ netif_napi_add(vi->dev, &vi->sq[i].napi, virtnet_poll_tx,
+ napi_weight);

sg_init_table(vi->rq[i].sg, ARRAY_SIZE(vi->rq[i].sg));
ewma_init(&vi->rq[i].mrg_avg_pkt_len, 1, RECEIVE_AVG_WEIGHT);
@@ -1920,8 +1961,10 @@ static int virtnet_freeze(struct virtio_device *vdev)
if (netif_running(vi->dev)) {
for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) {
napi_disable(&vi->rq[i].napi);
+ napi_disable(&vi->sq[i].napi);
napi_hash_del(&vi->rq[i].napi);
netif_napi_del(&vi->rq[i].napi);
+ netif_napi_del(&vi->sq[i].napi);
}
}

@@ -1946,8 +1989,10 @@ static int virtnet_restore(struct virtio_device *vdev)
if (!try_fill_recv(&vi->rq[i], GFP_KERNEL))
schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);

- for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) {
virtnet_napi_enable(&vi->rq[i]);
+ napi_enable(&vi->sq[i].napi);
+ }
}

netif_device_attach(vi->dev);
--
1.7.1

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