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Date:	Fri, 1 Apr 2016 12:47:24 -0700
From:	santosh shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang@...cle.com>, leon@...n.nu,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RDS: sync congestion map updating

(cc-ing netdev)
On 3/30/2016 7:59 PM, Wengang Wang wrote:
>
>
> 在 2016年03月31日 09:51, Wengang Wang 写道:
>>
>>
>> 在 2016年03月31日 01:16, santosh shilimkar 写道:
>>> Hi Wengang,
>>>
>>> On 3/30/2016 9:19 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 05:08:22PM +0800, Wengang Wang wrote:
>>>>> Problem is found that some among a lot of parallel RDS
>>>>> communications hang.
>>>>> In my test ten or so among 33 communications hang. The send
>>>>> requests got
>>>>> -ENOBUF error meaning the peer socket (port) is congested. But
>>>>> meanwhile,
>>>>> peer socket (port) is not congested.
>>>>>
>>>>> The congestion map updating can happen in two paths: one is in
>>>>> rds_recvmsg path
>>>>> and the other is when it receives packets from the hardware. There
>>>>> is no
>>>>> synchronization when updating the congestion map. So a bit
>>>>> operation (clearing)
>>>>> in the rds_recvmsg path can be skipped by another bit operation
>>>>> (setting) in
>>>>> hardware packet receving path.
>>>>>
>
> To be more detailed.  Here, the two paths (user calls recvmsg and
> hardware receives data) are for different rds socks. thus the
> rds_sock->rs_recv_lock is not helpful to sync the updating on congestion
> map.
>
For archive purpose, let me try to conclude the thread. I synced
with Wengang offlist and came up with below fix. I was under
impression that __set_bit_le() was atmoic version. After fixing
it like patch(end of the email), the bug gets addressed.

I will probably send this as fix for stable as well.


 From 5614b61f6fdcd6ae0c04e50b97efd13201762294 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 23:26:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] RDS: Fix the atomicity for congestion map update

Two different threads with different rds sockets may be in
rds_recv_rcvbuf_delta() via receive path. If their ports
both map to the same word in the congestion map, then
using non-atomic ops to update it could cause the map to
be incorrect. Lets use atomics to avoid such an issue.

Full credit to Wengang <wen.gang.wang@...cle.com> for
finding the issue, analysing it and also pointing out
to offending code with spin lock based fix.

Signed-off-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
---
  net/rds/cong.c |    4 ++--
  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/cong.c b/net/rds/cong.c
index e6144b8..6641bcf 100644
--- a/net/rds/cong.c
+++ b/net/rds/cong.c
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ void rds_cong_set_bit(struct rds_cong_map *map, 
__be16 port)
  	i = be16_to_cpu(port) / RDS_CONG_MAP_PAGE_BITS;
  	off = be16_to_cpu(port) % RDS_CONG_MAP_PAGE_BITS;

-	__set_bit_le(off, (void *)map->m_page_addrs[i]);
+	set_bit_le(off, (void *)map->m_page_addrs[i]);
  }

  void rds_cong_clear_bit(struct rds_cong_map *map, __be16 port)
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ void rds_cong_clear_bit(struct rds_cong_map *map, 
__be16 port)
  	i = be16_to_cpu(port) / RDS_CONG_MAP_PAGE_BITS;
  	off = be16_to_cpu(port) % RDS_CONG_MAP_PAGE_BITS;

-	__clear_bit_le(off, (void *)map->m_page_addrs[i]);
+	clear_bit_le(off, (void *)map->m_page_addrs[i]);
  }

  static int rds_cong_test_bit(struct rds_cong_map *map, __be16 port)
-- 
1.7.1