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Message-ID: <50BEEAAB.6050806@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:33:15 +0800
From: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC: rusty@...tcorp.com.au, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
davem@...emloft.net, krkumar2@...ibm.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
bhutchings@...arflare.com, jwhan@...ewood.snu.ac.kr,
shiyer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] virtio_net: multiqueue support
On 12/04/2012 11:11 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 10:45:33PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> On Tuesday, December 04, 2012 03:24:22 PM Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> I found some bugs, see below.
>>> Also some style nitpicking, this is not mandatory to address.
>> Thanks for the reviewing.
>>> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 07:07:57PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>>
[...]
>>>> + set = false;
>>> This will overwrite affinity if it was set by userspace.
>>> Just
>>> if (set)
>>> return;
>>> will not have this problem.
>> But we need handle the situtaiton when switch back to sq from mq mode.
>> Otherwise we may still get the affinity hint used in mq.
>> This kind of overwrite
>> is unavoidable or is there some method to detect whether userspac write
>> something new?
> If we didn't set the affinity originally we should not overwrite it.
> I think this means we need a flag that tells us that
> virtio set the affinity.
Ok.
[...]
>>>> +
>>>> + /* Parameters for control virtqueue, if any */
>>>> + if (vi->has_cvq) {
>>>> + callbacks[total_vqs - 1] = NULL;
>>>> + names[total_vqs - 1] = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "control");
>>>> + }
>>>>
>>>> + /* Allocate/initialize parameters for send/receive virtqueues */
>>>> + for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) {
>>>> + callbacks[rxq2vq(i)] = skb_recv_done;
>>>> + callbacks[txq2vq(i)] = skb_xmit_done;
>>>> + names[rxq2vq(i)] = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "input.%d", i);
>>>> + names[txq2vq(i)] = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "output.%d", i);
>>>> + }
>>> We would need to check kasprintf return value.
>> Looks like a better method is to make the name as a memeber of receive_queue
>> and send_queue, and use sprintf here.
>>> Also if you allocate names from slab we'll need to free them
>>> later.
>> Then it could be freed when the send_queue and receive_queue is freed.
>>> It's probably easier to just use fixed names for now -
>>> it's not like the index is really useful.
>> Looks useful for debugging e.g. check whether the irq distribution is as
>> expected.
> Well it doesn't really matter which one goes where, right?
> As long as interrupts are distributed well.
Yes, anyway, we decide to store the name in the send/receive queue, so I
will keep the index.
>
>>>> +
>>>> + ret = vi->vdev->config->find_vqs(vi->vdev, total_vqs, vqs, callbacks,
>>>> + (const char **)names);
>>> Please avoid casts, use a proper type for names.
>> I'm consider we need a minor change in this api, we need allocate the names
>> dynamically which could not be a const char **.
> I don't see why. Any use that allocates on the fly as
> you did would leak memory. Any use like you suggest
> e.g. allocating as part of send/receive structure
> would be fine.
True
>>>> + if (ret)
>>>> + goto err_names;
>>>> +
>>>> + if (vi->has_cvq) {
>>>> + vi->cvq = vqs[total_vqs - 1];
>>>>
>>>> if (virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN))
>>>>
>>>> vi->dev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER;
>>>>
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> +
>>>> + for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) {
>>>> + vi->rq[i].vq = vqs[rxq2vq(i)];
>>>> + vi->sq[i].vq = vqs[txq2vq(i)];
>>>> + }
>>>> +
>>>> + kfree(callbacks);
>>>> + kfree(vqs);
>>> Who frees names if there's no error?
>>>
>> The virtio core does not copy the name, so it need this and only used for
>> debugging if I'm reading the code correctly.
> No, virtio core does not free either individual vq name or the names
> array passed in. So this leaks memory.
Yes, so when we use the names in receive/send queue, it can be freed
during queue destroying.
[...]
> @@ -1276,24 +1531,29 @@ static int virtnet_freeze(struct virtio_device
> *vdev)>
> static int virtnet_restore(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> {
>
> struct virtnet_info *vi = vdev->priv;
>
> - int err;
> + int err, i;
>
> err = init_vqs(vi);
> if (err)
>
> return err;
>
> if (netif_running(vi->dev))
>
> - virtnet_napi_enable(&vi->rq);
> + for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++)
> + virtnet_napi_enable(&vi->rq[i]);
>
> netif_device_attach(vi->dev);
>
> - if (!try_fill_recv(&vi->rq, GFP_KERNEL))
> - schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
> + for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++)
> + if (!try_fill_recv(&vi->rq[i], GFP_KERNEL))
> + schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
>
> mutex_lock(&vi->config_lock);
> vi->config_enable = true;
> mutex_unlock(&vi->config_lock);
>
> + if (vi->has_cvq && virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_RFS))
> + virtnet_set_queues(vi);
> +
>>> I think it's easier to test
>>> if (curr_queue_pairs == max_queue_pairs)
>>> within virtnet_set_queues and make it
>>> a NOP if so.
>> Still need to send the command during restore since we reset the device during
>> freezing.
>
> Then maybe check vi->has_cvq && virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev,
> VIRTIO_NET_F_RFS) in there?
Right.
>
>>>>
[...]
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