Re: [PATCH net v2 2/2] Revert "virtio_net: Add a lock for per queue RX coalesce"

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在 2024/5/28 下午6:04, Paolo Abeni 写道:
On Tue, 2024-05-28 at 11:06 +0800, Heng Qi wrote:
On Mon, 27 May 2024 12:42:43 +0200, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2024-05-23 at 15:46 +0800, Heng Qi wrote:
This reverts commit 4d4ac2ececd3c42a08dd32a6e3a4aaf25f7efe44.

When the following snippet is run, lockdep will report a deadlock[1].

   /* Acquire all queues dim_locks */
   for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++)
           mutex_lock(&vi->rq[i].dim_lock);

There's no deadlock here because the vq locks are always taken
in the same order, but lockdep can not figure it out, and we
can not make each lock a separate class because there can be more
than MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES of vqs.

However, dropping the lock is harmless:
   1. If dim is enabled, modifications made by dim worker to coalescing
      params may cause the user's query results to be dirty data.
It looks like the above can confuse the user-space/admin?
Maybe, but we don't seem to guarantee this --
the global query interface (.get_coalesce) cannot
guarantee correct results when the DIM and .get_per_queue_coalesce are present:

1. DIM has been around for a long time (it will modify the per-queue parameters),
    but many nics only have interfaces for querying global parameters.
2. Some nics provide the .get_per_queue_coalesce interface, it is not
    synchronized with DIM.

So I think this is acceptable.
Yes, the above sounds acceptable to me.

Have you considered instead re-factoring
virtnet_send_rx_notf_coal_cmds() to avoid acquiring all the mutex in
sequence?
Perhaps it is a way to not traverse and update the parameters of each queue
in the global settings interface.
I'm wondering if something as dumb as the following would suffice? Not
even compile-tested.

This alleviates the problem, and l would like to repost this fix.

Thanks.
---
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 4a802c0ea2cb..d844f4c89152 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -4267,27 +4267,27 @@ static int virtnet_send_rx_notf_coal_cmds(struct virtnet_info *vi,
  			       ec->rx_max_coalesced_frames != vi->intr_coal_rx.max_packets))
  		return -EINVAL;
- /* Acquire all queues dim_locks */
-	for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++)
-		mutex_lock(&vi->rq[i].dim_lock);
-
  	if (rx_ctrl_dim_on && !vi->rx_dim_enabled) {
  		vi->rx_dim_enabled = true;
-		for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++)
+		for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) {
+			mutex_lock(&vi->rq[i].dim_lock);
  			vi->rq[i].dim_enabled = true;
-		goto unlock;
+			mutex_unlock(&vi->rq[i].dim_lock);
+		}
+		return 0;
  	}
coal_rx = kzalloc(sizeof(*coal_rx), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!coal_rx) {
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		goto unlock;
-	}
+	if (!coal_rx)
+		return -ENOMEM;
if (!rx_ctrl_dim_on && vi->rx_dim_enabled) {
  		vi->rx_dim_enabled = false;
-		for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++)
+		for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) {
+			mutex_lock(&vi->rq[i].dim_lock);
  			vi->rq[i].dim_enabled = false;
+			mutex_unlock(&vi->rq[i].dim_lock);
+		}
  	}
/* Since the per-queue coalescing params can be set,
@@ -4300,21 +4300,17 @@ static int virtnet_send_rx_notf_coal_cmds(struct virtnet_info *vi,
if (!virtnet_send_command(vi, VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_NOTF_COAL,
  				  VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_NOTF_COAL_RX_SET,
-				  &sgs_rx)) {
-		ret = -EINVAL;
-		goto unlock;
-	}
+				  &sgs_rx))
+		return -EINVAL;
vi->intr_coal_rx.max_usecs = ec->rx_coalesce_usecs;
  	vi->intr_coal_rx.max_packets = ec->rx_max_coalesced_frames;
  	for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) {
+		mutex_lock(&vi->rq[i].dim_lock);
  		vi->rq[i].intr_coal.max_usecs = ec->rx_coalesce_usecs;
  		vi->rq[i].intr_coal.max_packets = ec->rx_max_coalesced_frames;
-	}
-unlock:
-	for (i = vi->max_queue_pairs - 1; i >= 0; i--)
  		mutex_unlock(&vi->rq[i].dim_lock);
-
+	}
  	return ret;
  }
---

Otherwise I think you need to add {READ,WRITE}_ONCE annotations while
touching the dim fields to avoid data races.

Thanks,

Paolo








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