On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 06:23:00PM +0800, Albert Huang wrote:
> From: "huangjie.albert" <huangjie.albert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> in virtio_net, if we disable the napi_tx, when we triger a tx interrupt,
> the 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.
>
> 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 bring more interruptions.
>
> To summarize:
> 1) event_triggered was set to true in vring_interrupt()
> 2) after this nothing will happen for virtqueue_disable_cb() so
> VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT is not set in avail_flags_shadow
> 3) virtqueue_get_buf_ctx_split() will still think the cb is enabled
> then it tries to publish new event
>
> To fix:
> update VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT or VRING_PACKED_EVENT_FLAG_DISABLE to vq
> when we call virtqueue_disable_cb even the event_triggered is set to true.
>
> Tested with iperf:
> iperf3 tcp stream:
> vm1 -----------------> vm2
> vm2 just receives tcp data stream from vm1, and sends the ack to vm1,
> there are many tx interrupts in vm2.
> but without event_triggered there are just a few tx interrupts.
>
> v2->v3:
> -update the interrupt disable flag even with the event_triggered is set,
> -instead of checking whether event_triggered is set in
> -virtqueue_get_buf_ctx_{packed/split}, will cause the drivers which have
> -not called virtqueue_{enable/disable}_cb to miss notifications.
>
> v3->v4:
> -remove change for
> -"if (vq->packed.event_flags_shadow != VRING_PACKED_EVENT_FLAG_DISABLE)"
> -in virtqueue_disable_cb_packed
>
> Fixes: 8d622d21d248 ("virtio: fix up virtio_disable_cb")
> Signed-off-by: huangjie.albert <huangjie.albert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Can you confirm you tested 9p and it still works fine?
> ---
> drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> index cbeeea1b0439..ec7ab8e04846 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> @@ -931,6 +931,14 @@ static void virtqueue_disable_cb_split(struct virtqueue *_vq)
>
> if (!(vq->split.avail_flags_shadow & VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT)) {
> vq->split.avail_flags_shadow |= VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT;
> +
> + /*
> + * If device triggered an event already it won't trigger one again:
> + * no need to disable.
> + */
> + if (vq->event_triggered)
> + return;
> +
> if (vq->event)
> /* TODO: this is a hack. Figure out a cleaner value to write. */
> vring_used_event(&vq->split.vring) = 0x0;
> @@ -1761,6 +1769,14 @@ static void virtqueue_disable_cb_packed(struct virtqueue *_vq)
>
> if (vq->packed.event_flags_shadow != VRING_PACKED_EVENT_FLAG_DISABLE) {
> vq->packed.event_flags_shadow = VRING_PACKED_EVENT_FLAG_DISABLE;
> +
> + /*
> + * If device triggered an event already it won't trigger one again:
> + * no need to disable.
> + */
> + if (vq->event_triggered)
> + return;
> +
> vq->packed.vring.driver->flags =
> cpu_to_le16(vq->packed.event_flags_shadow);
> }
> @@ -2462,12 +2478,6 @@ void virtqueue_disable_cb(struct virtqueue *_vq)
> {
> struct vring_virtqueue *vq = to_vvq(_vq);
>
> - /* If device triggered an event already it won't trigger one again:
> - * no need to disable.
> - */
> - if (vq->event_triggered)
> - return;
> -
> if (vq->packed_ring)
> virtqueue_disable_cb_packed(_vq);
> else
> --
> 2.20.1
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