Adding netdev.
On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 1:09 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 3:31 PM Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:40:27 +0800, Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > We used to busy waiting on the cvq command this tends to be
> > > problematic since there no way for to schedule another process which
> > > may serve for the control virtqueue. This might be the case when the
> > > control virtqueue is emulated by software. This patch switches to use
> > > completion to allow the CPU to sleep instead of busy waiting for the
> > > cvq command.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > Changes since V1:
> > > - use completion for simplicity
> > > - don't try to harden the CVQ command which requires more thought
> > > Changes since RFC:
> > > - break the device when timeout
> > > - get buffer manually since the virtio core check more_used() instead
> > > ---
> > > drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
> > > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > index 2e56bbf86894..d3eb8fd6c9dc 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
> > > #include <linux/average.h>
> > > #include <linux/filter.h>
> > > #include <linux/kernel.h>
> > > +#include <linux/completion.h>
> > > #include <net/route.h>
> > > #include <net/xdp.h>
> > > #include <net/net_failover.h>
> > > @@ -295,6 +296,8 @@ struct virtnet_info {
> > >
> > > /* failover when STANDBY feature enabled */
> > > struct failover *failover;
> > > +
> > > + struct completion completion;
> > > };
> > >
> > > struct padded_vnet_hdr {
> > > @@ -1709,6 +1712,13 @@ static bool try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi, struct receive_queue *rq,
> > > return !oom;
> > > }
> > >
> > > +static void virtnet_cvq_done(struct virtqueue *cvq)
> > > +{
> > > + struct virtnet_info *vi = cvq->vdev->priv;
> > > +
> > > + complete(&vi->completion);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > static void skb_recv_done(struct virtqueue *rvq)
> > > {
> > > struct virtnet_info *vi = rvq->vdev->priv;
> > > @@ -2169,12 +2179,8 @@ static bool virtnet_send_command(struct virtnet_info *vi, u8 class, u8 cmd,
> > > if (unlikely(!virtqueue_kick(vi->cvq)))
> > > return vi->ctrl->status == VIRTIO_NET_OK;
> > >
> > > - /* Spin for a response, the kick causes an ioport write, trapping
> > > - * into the hypervisor, so the request should be handled immediately.
> > > - */
> > > - while (!virtqueue_get_buf(vi->cvq, &tmp) &&
> > > - !virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq))
> > > - cpu_relax();
> > > + wait_for_completion(&vi->completion);
> > > + virtqueue_get_buf(vi->cvq, &tmp);
> > >
> > > return vi->ctrl->status == VIRTIO_NET_OK;
> > > }
> > > @@ -3672,7 +3678,7 @@ static int virtnet_find_vqs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
> > >
> > > /* Parameters for control virtqueue, if any */
> > > if (vi->has_cvq) {
> > > - callbacks[total_vqs - 1] = NULL;
> > > + callbacks[total_vqs - 1] = virtnet_cvq_done;
> >
> > This depends the interrupt, right?
>
> Not necessarily, we have ISR for at last PCI:
>
> static irqreturn_t vp_interrupt(int irq, void *opaque)
> {
> struct virtio_pci_device *vp_dev = opaque;
> u8 isr;
>
> /* reading the ISR has the effect of also clearing it so it's very
> * important to save off the value. */
> isr = ioread8(vp_dev->isr);
> ...
> }
>
> >
> > I worry that there may be some devices that may not support interruption on cvq.
>
> Is the device using INTX or MSI-X?
>
> > Although this may not be in line with SPEC, it may cause problem on the devices
> > that can work normally at present.
>
> Then the implementation is buggy, it might not work for drivers other
> than Linux. Working around such buggy implementation is suboptimal.
>
> Thanks
>
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > > names[total_vqs - 1] = "control";
> > > }
> > >
> > > @@ -4122,6 +4128,7 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> > > if (vi->has_rss || vi->has_rss_hash_report)
> > > virtnet_init_default_rss(vi);
> > >
> > > + init_completion(&vi->completion);
> > > enable_rx_mode_work(vi);
> > >
> > > /* serialize netdev register + virtio_device_ready() with ndo_open() */
> > > --
> > > 2.25.1
> > >
> >
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