Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] vsock/virtio: limit the memory used per-socket

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On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:01:37PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 05:36:56PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 10:04:29AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 01:30:26PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > > > Since virtio-vsock was introduced, the buffers filled by the host
> > > > and pushed to the guest using the vring, are directly queued in
> > > > a per-socket list. These buffers are preallocated by the guest
> > > > with a fixed size (4 KB).
> > > >
> > > > The maximum amount of memory used by each socket should be
> > > > controlled by the credit mechanism.
> > > > The default credit available per-socket is 256 KB, but if we use
> > > > only 1 byte per packet, the guest can queue up to 262144 of 4 KB
> > > > buffers, using up to 1 GB of memory per-socket. In addition, the
> > > > guest will continue to fill the vring with new 4 KB free buffers
> > > > to avoid starvation of other sockets.
> > > >
> > > > This patch mitigates this issue copying the payload of small
> > > > packets (< 128 bytes) into the buffer of last packet queued, in
> > > > order to avoid wasting memory.
> > > >
> > > > Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > This is good enough for net-next, but for net I think we
> > > should figure out how to address the issue completely.
> > > Can we make the accounting precise? What happens to
> > > performance if we do?
> > >
> >
> > In order to do more precise accounting maybe we can use the buffer size,
> > instead of payload size when we update the credit available.
> > In this way, the credit available for each socket will reflect the memory
> > actually used.
> >
> > I should check better, because I'm not sure what happen if the peer sees
> > 1KB of space available, then it sends 1KB of payload (using a 4KB
> > buffer).
> > The other option is to copy each packet in a new buffer like I did in
> > the v2 [2], but this forces us to make a copy for each packet that does
> > not fill the entire buffer, perhaps too expensive.
> >
> > [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10938741/
> >
>
> So one thing we can easily do is to under-report the
> available credit. E.g. if we copy up to 256bytes,
> then report just 256bytes for every buffer in the queue.
>

Ehm sorry, I got lost :(
Can you explain better?


Thanks,
Stefano



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