On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 3:41 AM, Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 2017年09月28日 08:25, Willem de Bruijn wrote: >> >> From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Vhost-net has a hard limit on the number of zerocopy skbs in flight. >> When reached, transmission stalls. Stalls cause latency, as well as >> head-of-line blocking of other flows that do not use zerocopy. >> >> Instead of stalling, revert to copy-based transmission. >> >> Tested by sending two udp flows from guest to host, one with payload >> of VHOST_GOODCOPY_LEN, the other too small for zerocopy (1B). The >> large flow is redirected to a netem instance with 1MBps rate limit >> and deep 1000 entry queue. >> >> modprobe ifb >> ip link set dev ifb0 up >> tc qdisc add dev ifb0 root netem limit 1000 rate 1MBit >> >> tc qdisc add dev tap0 ingress >> tc filter add dev tap0 parent ffff: protocol ip \ >> u32 match ip dport 8000 0xffff \ >> action mirred egress redirect dev ifb0 >> >> Before the delay, both flows process around 80K pps. With the delay, >> before this patch, both process around 400. After this patch, the >> large flow is still rate limited, while the small reverts to its >> original rate. See also discussion in the first link, below. >> >> The limit in vhost_exceeds_maxpend must be carefully chosen. When >> vq->num >> 1, the flows remain correlated. This value happens to >> correspond to VHOST_MAX_PENDING for vq->num == 256. > > > Have you tested e.g vq->num = 512 or 1024? I did test with 1024 previously, but let me run that again with this patch applied. > > >> Allow smaller >> fractions and ensure correctness also for much smaller values of >> vq->num, by testing the min() of both explicitly. See also the >> discussion in the second link below. >> >> >> Link:http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAF=yD-+Wk9sc9dXMUq1+x_hh=3ThTXa6BnZkygP3tgVpjbp93g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Link:http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170819064129.27272-1-den@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> drivers/vhost/net.c | 14 ++++---------- >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c >> index 58585ec8699e..50758602ae9d 100644 >> --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c >> +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c >> @@ -436,8 +436,8 @@ static bool vhost_exceeds_maxpend(struct vhost_net >> *net) >> struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq = &net->vqs[VHOST_NET_VQ_TX]; >> struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = &nvq->vq; >> - return (nvq->upend_idx + vq->num - VHOST_MAX_PEND) % UIO_MAXIOV >> - == nvq->done_idx; >> + return (nvq->upend_idx + UIO_MAXIOV - nvq->done_idx) % UIO_MAXIOV >> > >> + min(VHOST_MAX_PEND, vq->num >> 2); >> } >> /* Expects to be always run from workqueue - which acts as >> @@ -480,12 +480,6 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net) >> if (zcopy) >> vhost_zerocopy_signal_used(net, vq); >> - /* If more outstanding DMAs, queue the work. >> - * Handle upend_idx wrap around >> - */ >> - if (unlikely(vhost_exceeds_maxpend(net))) >> - break; >> - >> head = vhost_net_tx_get_vq_desc(net, vq, vq->iov, >> ARRAY_SIZE(vq->iov), >> &out, &in); >> @@ -509,6 +503,7 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net) >> len = iov_length(vq->iov, out); >> iov_iter_init(&msg.msg_iter, WRITE, vq->iov, out, len); >> iov_iter_advance(&msg.msg_iter, hdr_size); >> + > > > Looks unnecessary. Other looks good. Oops, indeed. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
