Re: [PATCH] virtio_ring: Suppress tx interrupt when napi_tx disable

[Jason Wang]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 5:00 PM Albert Huang
<huangjie.albert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: "huangjie.albert" <huangjie.albert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> fix commit 8d622d21d248 ("virtio: fix up virtio_disable_cb")
>
> if we disable the napi_tx. when we triger a tx interrupt, the

typo should be "trigger"

> vq->event_triggered will be set to true. It will no longer be
> set to false. Unless we explicitly call virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed
> or virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare
>
> if we disable the napi_tx, It will only be called when the tx ring
> buffer is relatively small:
> virtio_net->start_xmit:
>         if (sq->vq->num_free < 2+MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
>                 netif_stop_subqueue(dev, qnum);
>                 if (!use_napi &&
>                     unlikely(!virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed(sq->vq))) {
>                         /* More just got used, free them then recheck. */
>                         free_old_xmit_skbs(sq, false);
>                         if (sq->vq->num_free >= 2+MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
>                                 netif_start_subqueue(dev, qnum);
>                                 virtqueue_disable_cb(sq->vq);
>                         }

The code example here is out of date, make sure your tree has this:

commit d71ebe8114b4bf622804b810f5e274069060a174
Author: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Jan 17 11:47:07 2023 +0800

    virtio-net: correctly enable callback during start_xmit

>                 }
>         }
> Because event_triggered is true.Therefore, VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT or
> VRING_PACKED_EVENT_FLAG_DISABLE will not be set.So we update
> vring_used_event(&vq->split.vring) or vq->packed.vring.driver->off_wrap
> every time we call virtqueue_get_buf_ctx.This will bring more interruptions.

Can you please post how to test with the performance numbers?

>
> if event_triggered is set to true, do not update vring_used_event(&vq->split.vring)
> or vq->packed.vring.driver->off_wrap
>
> Signed-off-by: huangjie.albert <huangjie.albert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> index 307e139cb11d..f486cccadbeb 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> @@ -795,7 +795,8 @@ static void *virtqueue_get_buf_ctx_split(struct virtqueue *_vq,
>         /* If we expect an interrupt for the next entry, tell host
>          * by writing event index and flush out the write before
>          * the read in the next get_buf call. */
> -       if (!(vq->split.avail_flags_shadow & VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT))
> +       if (!(vq->split.avail_flags_shadow & VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT)
> +                       && (vq->event_triggered == false))

I'm not sure this can work, when event_triggered is true it means
we've got an interrupt, in this case if we want another interrupt for
the next entry, we should update used_event otherwise we will lose
that interrupt?

Thanks

>                 virtio_store_mb(vq->weak_barriers,
>                                 &vring_used_event(&vq->split.vring),
>                                 cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, vq->last_used_idx));
> @@ -1529,7 +1530,8 @@ static void *virtqueue_get_buf_ctx_packed(struct virtqueue *_vq,
>          * by writing event index and flush out the write before
>          * the read in the next get_buf call.
>          */
> -       if (vq->packed.event_flags_shadow == VRING_PACKED_EVENT_FLAG_DESC)
> +       if (vq->packed.event_flags_shadow == VRING_PACKED_EVENT_FLAG_DESC
> +                       && (vq->event_triggered == false))
>                 virtio_store_mb(vq->weak_barriers,
>                                 &vq->packed.vring.driver->off_wrap,
>                                 cpu_to_le16(vq->last_used_idx));
> --
> 2.31.1
>