Re: [PATCH for-rc] rdma-core/mad: Improve handling of timed out WRs of mad agent

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On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 09:27:35AM +0530, Saravanan Vajravel wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 1:08 PM Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 04:33:25PM +0530, Saravanan Vajravel wrote:
> > > Current timeout handler of mad agent aquires/releases mad_agent_priv
> > > lock for every timed out WRs. This causes heavy locking contention
> > > when higher no. of WRs are to be handled inside timeout handler.
> > >
> > > This leads to softlockup with below trace in some use cases where
> > > rdma-cm path is used to establish connection between peer nodes
> > >
> > > Trace:
> > > -----
> > >  BUG: soft lockup - CPU#4 stuck for 26s! [kworker/u128:3:19767]
> > >  CPU: 4 PID: 19767 Comm: kworker/u128:3 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE
> > >      -------  ---  5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64 #1
> > >  Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/01YM03, BIOS 2.4.8 11/26/2019
> > >  Workqueue: ib_mad1 timeout_sends [ib_core]
> > >  RIP: 0010:__do_softirq+0x78/0x2ac
> > >  RSP: 0018:ffffb253449e4f98 EFLAGS: 00000246
> > >  RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000000000001f
> > >  RDX: 000000000000001d RSI: 000000003d1879ab RDI: fff363b66fd3a86b
> > >  RBP: ffffb253604cbcd8 R08: 0000009065635f3b R09: 0000000000000000
> > >  R10: 0000000000000040 R11: ffffb253449e4ff8 R12: 0000000000000000
> > >  R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000040
> > >  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8caa1fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > >  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > >  CR2: 00007fd9ec9db900 CR3: 0000000891934006 CR4: 00000000007706e0
> > >  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > >  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > >  PKRU: 55555554
> > >  Call Trace:
> > >   <IRQ>
> > >   ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df
> > >   ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df
> > >   ? __irq_exit_rcu+0xa1/0xc0
> > >   ? watchdog_timer_fn+0x1b2/0x210
> > >   ? __pfx_watchdog_timer_fn+0x10/0x10
> > >   ? __hrtimer_run_queues+0x127/0x2c0
> > >   ? hrtimer_interrupt+0xfc/0x210
> > >   ? __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5c/0x110
> > >   ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x37/0x90
> > >   ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20
> > >   ? __do_softirq+0x78/0x2ac
> > >   ? __do_softirq+0x60/0x2ac
> > >   __irq_exit_rcu+0xa1/0xc0
> > >   sysvec_call_function_single+0x72/0x90
> > >   </IRQ>
> > >   <TASK>
> > >   asm_sysvec_call_function_single+0x16/0x20
> > >  RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x14/0x30
> > >  RSP: 0018:ffffb253604cbd88 EFLAGS: 00000247
> > >  RAX: 000000000001960d RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: ffff8cad2a064800
> > >  RDX: 000000008020001b RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff8cad5d39f66c
> > >  RBP: ffff8cad5d39f600 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
> > >  R10: ffff8caa443e0c00 R11: ffffb253604cbcd8 R12: ffff8cacb8682538
> > >  R13: 0000000000000005 R14: ffffb253604cbd90 R15: ffff8cad5d39f66c
> > >   cm_process_send_error+0x122/0x1d0 [ib_cm]
> > >   timeout_sends+0x1dd/0x270 [ib_core]
> > >   process_one_work+0x1e2/0x3b0
> > >   ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
> > >   worker_thread+0x50/0x3a0
> > >   ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
> > >   kthread+0xdd/0x100
> > >   ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
> > >   ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50
> > >   </TASK>
> > >
> > > Simplified timeout handler by creating local list of timed out WRs
> > > and invoke send handler post creating the list. The new method acquires/
> > > releases lock once to fetch the list and hence helps to reduce locking
> > > contetiong when processing higher no. of WRs
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Saravanan Vajravel <saravanan.vajravel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c | 14 ++++++++------
> > >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c
> > > index 674344eb8e2f..58befbaaf0ad 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c
> > > @@ -2616,14 +2616,16 @@ static int retry_send(struct ib_mad_send_wr_private *mad_send_wr)
> > >
> > >  static void timeout_sends(struct work_struct *work)
> > >  {
> > > +     struct ib_mad_send_wr_private *mad_send_wr, *n;
> > >       struct ib_mad_agent_private *mad_agent_priv;
> > > -     struct ib_mad_send_wr_private *mad_send_wr;
> > >       struct ib_mad_send_wc mad_send_wc;
> > > +     struct list_head local_list;
> > >       unsigned long flags, delay;
> > >
> > >       mad_agent_priv = container_of(work, struct ib_mad_agent_private,
> > >                                     timed_work.work);
> > >       mad_send_wc.vendor_err = 0;
> > > +     INIT_LIST_HEAD(&local_list);
> > >
> > >       spin_lock_irqsave(&mad_agent_priv->lock, flags);
> > >       while (!list_empty(&mad_agent_priv->wait_list)) {
> > > @@ -2641,13 +2643,16 @@ static void timeout_sends(struct work_struct *work)
> > >                       break;
> > >               }
> > >
> > > -             list_del(&mad_send_wr->agent_list);
> > > +             list_del_init(&mad_send_wr->agent_list);
> > >               if (mad_send_wr->status == IB_WC_SUCCESS &&
> > >                   !retry_send(mad_send_wr))
> > >                       continue;
> > >
> > > -             spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mad_agent_priv->lock, flags);
> > > +             list_add_tail(&mad_send_wr->agent_list, &local_list);
> > > +     }
> > > +     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mad_agent_priv->lock, flags);
> > >
> > > +     list_for_each_entry_safe(mad_send_wr, n, &local_list, agent_list) {
> > >               if (mad_send_wr->status == IB_WC_SUCCESS)
> > >                       mad_send_wc.status = IB_WC_RESP_TIMEOUT_ERR;
> > >               else
> > > @@ -2655,11 +2660,8 @@ static void timeout_sends(struct work_struct *work)
> > >               mad_send_wc.send_buf = &mad_send_wr->send_buf;
> > >               mad_agent_priv->agent.send_handler(&mad_agent_priv->agent,
> > >                                                  &mad_send_wc);
> >
> > I understand the problem, but I'm not sure that this is safe to do. How
> > can we be sure that this is safe to call the send_handler on entry in
> > wait_list without the locking?
> >
> > Thanks
> 
> Per existing implementation, the send_handler is invoked without locking.
> I didn't change that design. Existing implementation was acquiring and
> releasing the lock for every Work Request (WR) that it handles inside
> timeout_handler.
> I improved it in such a way that once lock is acquired to fetch list
> of WR to be handled
> and process all fetched WRs outside the scope of lock. In both implementations,
> send_handler is always called without lock. This patch aims to reduce locking
> contention

Indeed send_handler is called without lock, but not on the wait_list.
I've asked explicitly about operations on the wait_list.

Thanks

> 
> Thanks,
> >
> > > -
> > >               deref_mad_agent(mad_agent_priv);
> > > -             spin_lock_irqsave(&mad_agent_priv->lock, flags);
> > >       }
> > > -     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mad_agent_priv->lock, flags);
> > >  }
> > >
> > >  /*
> > > --
> > > 2.39.3
> > >






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