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Message-ID: <bccae5ab-45d3-447e-aed9-d1955da0b109@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:22:58 +0200
From: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com>
To: Eugenio Perez Martin <eperezma@...hat.com>
Cc: "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@...cle.com>,
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>,
kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Parav Pandit <parav@...dia.com>, Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>,
Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH vhost 7/7] vdpa/mlx5: Postpone MR deletion
On 29.08.24 17:07, Eugenio Perez Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 1:42 PM Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com> wrote:
>>
>> Currently, when a new MR is set up, the old MR is deleted. MR deletion
>> is about 30-40% the time of MR creation. As deleting the old MR is not
>> important for the process of setting up the new MR, this operation
>> can be postponed.
>>
>> This series adds a workqueue that does MR garbage collection at a later
>> point. If the MR lock is taken, the handler will back off and
>> reschedule. The exception during shutdown: then the handler must
>> not postpone the work.
>>
>> Note that this is only a speculative optimization: if there is some
>> mapping operation that is triggered while the garbage collector handler
>> has the lock taken, this operation it will have to wait for the handler
>> to finish.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@...dia.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h | 10 ++++++
>> drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>> drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c | 3 +-
>> 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h
>> index c3e17bc888e8..2cedf7e2dbc4 100644
>> --- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h
>> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h
>> @@ -86,8 +86,18 @@ enum {
>> struct mlx5_vdpa_mr_resources {
>> struct mlx5_vdpa_mr *mr[MLX5_VDPA_NUM_AS];
>> unsigned int group2asid[MLX5_VDPA_NUMVQ_GROUPS];
>> +
>> + /* Pre-deletion mr list */
>> struct list_head mr_list_head;
>> +
>> + /* Deferred mr list */
>> + struct list_head mr_gc_list_head;
>> + struct workqueue_struct *wq_gc;
>> + struct delayed_work gc_dwork_ent;
>> +
>> struct mutex lock;
>> +
>> + atomic_t shutdown;
>> };
>>
>> struct mlx5_vdpa_dev {
>> diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c
>> index ec75f165f832..43fce6b39cf2 100644
>> --- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c
>> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c
>> @@ -653,14 +653,46 @@ static void _mlx5_vdpa_destroy_mr(struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev, struct mlx5_vdpa_
>> kfree(mr);
>> }
>>
>> +#define MLX5_VDPA_MR_GC_TRIGGER_MS 2000
>> +
>> +static void mlx5_vdpa_mr_gc_handler(struct work_struct *work)
>> +{
>> + struct mlx5_vdpa_mr_resources *mres;
>> + struct mlx5_vdpa_mr *mr, *tmp;
>> + struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev;
>> +
>> + mres = container_of(work, struct mlx5_vdpa_mr_resources, gc_dwork_ent.work);
>> +
>> + if (atomic_read(&mres->shutdown)) {
>> + mutex_lock(&mres->lock);
>> + } else if (!mutex_trylock(&mres->lock)) {
>
> Is the trylock worth it? My understanding is that mutex_lock will add
> the kthread to the waitqueue anyway if it is not able to acquire the
> lock.
>
I want to believe it is :). I noticed during testing that this can
interfere with the case where there are several .set_map() operations
in quick succession. That's why the work is delayed by such a long
time.
It's not a perfect heuristic but I found that it's better than not
having it.
>> + queue_delayed_work(mres->wq_gc, &mres->gc_dwork_ent,
>> + msecs_to_jiffies(MLX5_VDPA_MR_GC_TRIGGER_MS));
>> + return;
>> + }
>> +
>> + mvdev = container_of(mres, struct mlx5_vdpa_dev, mres);
>> +
>> + list_for_each_entry_safe(mr, tmp, &mres->mr_gc_list_head, mr_list) {
>> + _mlx5_vdpa_destroy_mr(mvdev, mr);
>> + }
>> +
>> + mutex_unlock(&mres->lock);
>> +}
>> +
>> static void _mlx5_vdpa_put_mr(struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev,
>> struct mlx5_vdpa_mr *mr)
>> {
>> + struct mlx5_vdpa_mr_resources *mres = &mvdev->mres;
>> +
>> if (!mr)
>> return;
>>
>> - if (refcount_dec_and_test(&mr->refcount))
>> - _mlx5_vdpa_destroy_mr(mvdev, mr);
>> + if (refcount_dec_and_test(&mr->refcount)) {
>> + list_move_tail(&mr->mr_list, &mres->mr_gc_list_head);
>> + queue_delayed_work(mres->wq_gc, &mres->gc_dwork_ent,
>> + msecs_to_jiffies(MLX5_VDPA_MR_GC_TRIGGER_MS));
>
> Why the delay?
>
See above.
>> + }
>> }
>>
>> void mlx5_vdpa_put_mr(struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev,
>> @@ -848,9 +880,17 @@ int mlx5_vdpa_init_mr_resources(struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev)
>> {
>> struct mlx5_vdpa_mr_resources *mres = &mvdev->mres;
>>
>> - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mres->mr_list_head);
>> + mres->wq_gc = create_singlethread_workqueue("mlx5_vdpa_mr_gc");
>> + if (!mres->wq_gc)
>> + return -ENOMEM;
>> +
>> + INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&mres->gc_dwork_ent, mlx5_vdpa_mr_gc_handler);
>> +
>> mutex_init(&mres->lock);
>>
>> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mres->mr_list_head);
>> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mres->mr_gc_list_head);
>> +
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> @@ -858,5 +898,10 @@ void mlx5_vdpa_destroy_mr_resources(struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev)
>> {
>> struct mlx5_vdpa_mr_resources *mres = &mvdev->mres;
>>
>> + atomic_set(&mres->shutdown, 1);
>> +
>> + flush_delayed_work(&mres->gc_dwork_ent);
>> + destroy_workqueue(mres->wq_gc);
>> + mres->wq_gc = NULL;
>> mutex_destroy(&mres->lock);
>> }
>> diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
>> index 1cadcb05a5c7..ee9482ef51e6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
>> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
>> @@ -3435,6 +3435,8 @@ static void mlx5_vdpa_free(struct vdpa_device *vdev)
>> free_fixed_resources(ndev);
>> mlx5_vdpa_clean_mrs(mvdev);
>> mlx5_vdpa_destroy_mr_resources(&ndev->mvdev);
>> + mlx5_cmd_cleanup_async_ctx(&mvdev->async_ctx);
>> +
>> if (!is_zero_ether_addr(ndev->config.mac)) {
>> pfmdev = pci_get_drvdata(pci_physfn(mvdev->mdev->pdev));
>> mlx5_mpfs_del_mac(pfmdev, ndev->config.mac);
>> @@ -4044,7 +4046,6 @@ static void mlx5_vdpa_dev_del(struct vdpa_mgmt_dev *v_mdev, struct vdpa_device *
>> destroy_workqueue(wq);
>> mgtdev->ndev = NULL;
>>
>
> Extra newline here.
Ack.
>
>> - mlx5_cmd_cleanup_async_ctx(&mvdev->async_ctx);
>> }
>>
>> static const struct vdpa_mgmtdev_ops mdev_ops = {
>> --
>> 2.45.1
>>
>
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