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Date:   Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:54:24 +0200
From:   Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, sgarzare@...hat.com,
        eperezma@...hat.com, lulu@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
        peterz@...radead.org, paulmck@...nel.org, maz@...nel.org,
        pasic@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 6/9] virtio-ccw: implement synchronize_cbs()

On Mon, Apr 25 2022, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:44:15AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> This patch tries to implement the synchronize_cbs() for ccw. For the
>> vring_interrupt() that is called via virtio_airq_handler(), the
>> synchronization is simply done via the airq_info's lock. For the
>> vring_interrupt() that is called via virtio_ccw_int_handler(), a per
>> device spinlock for irq is introduced ans used in the synchronization
>> method.
>> 
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
>> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
>> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
>> Cc: Halil Pasic <pasic@...ux.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
>
>
> This is the only one that is giving me pause. Halil, Cornelia,
> should we be concerned about the performance impact here?
> Any chance it can be tested?

We can have a bunch of devices using the same airq structure, and the
sync cb creates a choke point, same as registering/unregistering. If
invoking the sync cb is a rare operation (same as (un)registering), it
should not affect interrupt processing for other devices too much, but
it really should be rare.

For testing, you would probably want to use a setup with many devices
that share the same airq area (you can fit a lot of devices if they have
few queues), generate traffic on the queues, and then do something that
triggers the callback (adding/removing a new device in a loop?)

I currently don't have such a setup handy; Halil, would you be able to
test that?

>
>> ---
>>  drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c b/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c
>> index d35e7a3f7067..c19f07a82d62 100644
>> --- a/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c
>> +++ b/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c
>> @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ struct virtio_ccw_device {
>>  	unsigned int revision; /* Transport revision */
>>  	wait_queue_head_t wait_q;
>>  	spinlock_t lock;
>> +	spinlock_t irq_lock;
>>  	struct mutex io_lock; /* Serializes I/O requests */
>>  	struct list_head virtqueues;
>>  	bool is_thinint;
>> @@ -984,6 +985,27 @@ static const char *virtio_ccw_bus_name(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>>  	return dev_name(&vcdev->cdev->dev);
>>  }
>>  
>> +static void virtio_ccw_synchronize_cbs(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>> +{
>> +	struct virtio_ccw_device *vcdev = to_vc_device(vdev);
>> +	struct airq_info *info = vcdev->airq_info;
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Synchronize with the vring_interrupt() called by
>> +	 * virtio_ccw_int_handler().
>> +	 */
>> +	spin_lock(&vcdev->irq_lock);
>> +	spin_unlock(&vcdev->irq_lock);
>> +
>> +	if (info) {
>> +		/*
>> +		 * Synchronize with the vring_interrupt() with airq indicator
>> +		 */
>> +		write_lock(&info->lock);
>> +		write_unlock(&info->lock);
>> +	}

I think we can make this an either/or operation (devices will either use
classic interrupts or adapter interrupts)?

>> +}
>> +
>>  static const struct virtio_config_ops virtio_ccw_config_ops = {
>>  	.get_features = virtio_ccw_get_features,
>>  	.finalize_features = virtio_ccw_finalize_features,