netdev - Re: Quota in __qdisc_run() (was: qdisc: validate skb without holding lock)

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Date:	Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:43:33 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	therbert@...gle.com, fw@...len.de, dborkman@...hat.com,
	jhs@...atatu.com, alexander.duyck@...il.com,
	john.r.fastabend@...el.com, dave.taht@...il.com, toke@...e.dk
Subject: Re: Quota in __qdisc_run() (was: qdisc: validate skb without holding
 lock)

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014, at 15:30, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 05:47:18 -0700
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 09:34 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > > On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:30:44 -0700 Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Another problem we need to address is the quota in __qdisc_run()
> > > > is no longer meaningfull, if each qdisc_restart() can pump many packets.
> > > 
> > > I fully agree. My earlier "magic" packet limit was covering/pampering
> > > over this issue.
> > 
> > Although quota was multiplied by 7 or 8 in worst case ?
> 
> Yes, exactly not a very elegant solution ;-)
> 
> 
> > > > An idea would be to use the bstats (or cpu_qstats if applicable)
> > > 
> > > Please elaborate some more, as I don't completely follow (feel free to
> > > show with a patch ;-)).
> > > 
> > 
> > I was hoping John could finish the percpu stats before I do that.
> > 
> > Problem with q->bstats.packets is that TSO packets with 45 MSS add 45 to
> > this counter.
> > 
> > Using a time quota would be better, but : jiffies is too big, and
> > local_clock() might be too expensive.
> 
> Hannes hacked up this patch for me... (didn't finish testing)
> 
> The basic idea is we want keep/restore the quota fairness between
> qdisc's , that we sort of broke with commit 5772e9a346 ("qdisc: bulk
> dequeue support for qdiscs with TCQ_F_ONETXQUEUE").
> 
> We choose not to account for the number of packets inside the TSO/GSO
> packets ("skb_gso_segs").  As the previous fairness also had this
> "defect".
> 
> You might view this as a short term solution, until you can fix it with
> your q->bstats.packets or time quota?
> 
> 
> [RFC PATCH] net_sched: restore quota limits after bulk dequeue
> 
> --- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
> +++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
> @@ -57,17 +57,19 @@ static inline int dev_requeue_skb(struct sk_buff
> *skb, struct Qdisc *q)
>  
>  static void try_bulk_dequeue_skb(struct Qdisc *q,
>                                  struct sk_buff *skb,
> -                                const struct netdev_queue *txq)
> +                                const struct netdev_queue *txq,
> +                                int *quota)
>  {
>         int bytelimit = qdisc_avail_bulklimit(txq) - skb->len;
>  
> -       while (bytelimit > 0) {
> +       while (bytelimit > 0 && *quota > 0) {
>                 struct sk_buff *nskb = q->dequeue(q);
>  
>                 if (!nskb)
>                         break;
>  
>                 bytelimit -= nskb->len; /* covers GSO len */
> +               --*quota;
>                 skb->next = nskb;
>                 skb = nskb;
>         }
> @@ -77,7 +79,7 @@ static void try_bulk_dequeue_skb(struct Qdisc *q,
>  /* Note that dequeue_skb can possibly return a SKB list (via skb->next).
>   * A requeued skb (via q->gso_skb) can also be a SKB list.
>   */
> -static struct sk_buff *dequeue_skb(struct Qdisc *q, bool *validate)
> +static struct sk_buff *dequeue_skb(struct Qdisc *q, bool *validate, int
> *quota)
>  {
>         struct sk_buff *skb = q->gso_skb;
>         const struct netdev_queue *txq = q->dev_queue;
> @@ -87,18 +89,25 @@ static struct sk_buff *dequeue_skb(struct Qdisc *q,
> bool *validate)
>                 /* check the reason of requeuing without tx lock first */
>                 txq = skb_get_tx_queue(txq->dev, skb);
>                 if (!netif_xmit_frozen_or_stopped(txq)) {
> +                       struct sk_buff *iskb = skb;
> +
>                         q->gso_skb = NULL;
>                         q->q.qlen--;
> -               } else
> +                       do
> +                               --*quota;
> +                       while ((iskb = skb->next));

This needs to be:

do
   ...
while ((iskb = iskb->next))

Bye,
Hannes
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