Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/2] virtio-net: add cond_resched() to the command waiting loop

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On 2023-07-24 a.m.2:46, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
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On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 10:18:03PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:


On 7/21/23 17:10, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 04:58:04PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:


On 7/21/23 16:45, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 04:37:00PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:


On 7/20/23 23:02, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 01:26:20PM -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote:
On 7/20/23 1:38 AM, Jason Wang wrote:

Adding cond_resched() to the command waiting loop for a better
co-operation with the scheduler. This allows to give CPU a breath to
run other task(workqueue) instead of busy looping when preemption is
not allowed on a device whose CVQ might be slow.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>

This still leaves hung processes, but at least it doesn't pin the CPU any
more.  Thanks.
Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@xxxxxxx>


I'd like to see a full solution
1- block until interrupt

Would it make sense to also have a timeout?
And when timeout expires, set FAILED bit in device status?

virtio spec does not set any limits on the timing of vq
processing.

Indeed, but I thought the driver could decide it is too long for it.

The issue is we keep waiting with rtnl locked, it can quickly make the
system unusable.

if this is a problem we should find a way not to keep rtnl
locked indefinitely.

 From the tests I have done, I think it is. With OVS, a reconfiguration is
performed when the VDUSE device is added, and when a MLX5 device is
in the same bridge, it ends up doing an ioctl() that tries to take the
rtnl lock. In this configuration, it is not possible to kill OVS because
it is stuck trying to acquire rtnl lock for mlx5 that is held by virtio-
net.

So for sure, we can queue up the work and process it later.
The somewhat tricky part is limiting the memory consumption.




Hi Jason

Excuse me, is there any plan for when will v5 patch series be sent out? Will the v5 patches solve the problem of ctrlvq's infinite poll for buggy devices?

Thanks
Feng


2- still handle surprise removal correctly by waking in that case



---
      drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 4 +++-
      1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 9f3b1d6ac33d..e7533f29b219 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -2314,8 +2314,10 @@ static bool virtnet_send_command(struct virtnet_info *vi, u8 class, u8 cmd,
              * into the hypervisor, so the request should be handled immediately.
              */
             while (!virtqueue_get_buf(vi->cvq, &tmp) &&
-              !virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq))
+              !virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq)) {
+               cond_resched();
                     cpu_relax();
+       }

             return vi->ctrl->status == VIRTIO_NET_OK;
      }
--
2.39.3

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