Re: [PATCH net-next] net: introduce budget_squeeze to help us tune rx behavior

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On 3/11/23 08:36, Jason Xing wrote:
From: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx>

When we encounter some performance issue and then get lost on how
to tune the budget limit and time limit in net_rx_action() function,
we can separately counting both of them to avoid the confusion.

Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
note: this commit is based on the link as below:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230311151756.83302-1-kerneljasonxing@xxxxxxxxx/
---
  include/linux/netdevice.h |  1 +
  net/core/dev.c            | 12 ++++++++----
  net/core/net-procfs.c     |  9 ++++++---
  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 6a14b7b11766..5736311a2133 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -3157,6 +3157,7 @@ struct softnet_data {
  	/* stats */
  	unsigned int		processed;
  	unsigned int		time_squeeze;
+	unsigned int		budget_squeeze;
  #ifdef CONFIG_RPS
  	struct softnet_data	*rps_ipi_list;
  #endif
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 253584777101..bed7a68fdb5d 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6637,6 +6637,7 @@ static __latent_entropy void net_rx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
  	unsigned long time_limit = jiffies +
  		usecs_to_jiffies(READ_ONCE(netdev_budget_usecs));
  	int budget = READ_ONCE(netdev_budget);
+	bool is_continue = true;
  	LIST_HEAD(list);
  	LIST_HEAD(repoll);
@@ -6644,7 +6645,7 @@ static __latent_entropy void net_rx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
  	list_splice_init(&sd->poll_list, &list);
  	local_irq_enable();
- for (;;) {
+	for (; is_continue;) {
  		struct napi_struct *n;
skb_defer_free_flush(sd);
@@ -6662,10 +6663,13 @@ static __latent_entropy void net_rx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
  		 * Allow this to run for 2 jiffies since which will allow
  		 * an average latency of 1.5/HZ.
  		 */
-		if (unlikely(budget <= 0 ||
-			     time_after_eq(jiffies, time_limit))) {
+		if (unlikely(budget <= 0)) {
+			sd->budget_squeeze++;
+			is_continue = false;
+		}
+		if (unlikely(time_after_eq(jiffies, time_limit))) {
  			sd->time_squeeze++;
-			break;
+			is_continue = false;
  		}
  	}
diff --git a/net/core/net-procfs.c b/net/core/net-procfs.c
index 97a304e1957a..4d1a499d7c43 100644
--- a/net/core/net-procfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-procfs.c
@@ -174,14 +174,17 @@ static int softnet_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
  	 */
  	seq_printf(seq,
  		   "%08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x "
-		   "%08x %08x\n",
-		   sd->processed, sd->dropped, sd->time_squeeze, 0,
+		   "%08x %08x %08x %08x\n",
+		   sd->processed, sd->dropped,
+		   0, /* was old way to count time squeeze */

Should we show a proximate number?  For example,
sd->time_squeeze + sd->bud_squeeze.


+		   0,
  		   0, 0, 0, 0, /* was fastroute */
  		   0,	/* was cpu_collision */
  		   sd->received_rps, flow_limit_count,
  		   0,	/* was len of two backlog queues */
  		   (int)seq->index,
-		   softnet_input_pkt_queue_len(sd), softnet_process_queue_len(sd));
+		   softnet_input_pkt_queue_len(sd), softnet_process_queue_len(sd),
+		   sd->time_squeeze, sd->budget_squeeze);
  	return 0;
  }



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