netdev - Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue PATCH v6 2/5] mqprio: Implement select_queue class

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Message-ID: <633dfce2-71f1-f704-7ae2-b1ef2ba9b448@intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2017 08:59:03 -0700
From:   Jesus Sanchez-Palencia <jesus.sanchez-palencia@...el.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
        Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
        rodney.cummings@...com, andre.guedes@...el.com,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, ivan.briano@...el.com,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>, henrik@...tad.us,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>, levipearson@...il.com,
        boon.leong.ong@...el.com, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue PATCH v6 2/5] mqprio: Implement
 select_queue class_ops

Hi Alex,


On 10/12/2017 08:21 AM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Vinicius Costa Gomes
> <vinicius.gomes@...el.com> wrote:
>> From: Jesus Sanchez-Palencia <jesus.sanchez-palencia@...el.com>
>>
>> When replacing a child qdisc from mqprio, tc_modify_qdisc() must fetch
>> the netdev_queue pointer that the current child qdisc is associated
>> with before creating the new qdisc.
>>
>> Currently, when using mqprio as root qdisc, the kernel will end up
>> getting the queue #0 pointer from the mqprio (root qdisc), which leaves
>> any new child qdisc with a possibly wrong netdev_queue pointer.
>>
>> Implementing the Qdisc_class_ops select_queue() on mqprio fixes this
>> issue and avoid an inconsistent state when child qdiscs are replaced.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jesus Sanchez-Palencia <jesus.sanchez-palencia@...el.com>
>> ---
>>  net/sched/sch_mqprio.c | 7 +++++++
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c b/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c
>> index 6bcdfe6e7b63..8c042ae323e3 100644
>> --- a/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c
>> +++ b/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c
>> @@ -396,6 +396,12 @@ static void mqprio_walk(struct Qdisc *sch, struct qdisc_walker *arg)
>>         }
>>  }
>>
>> +static struct netdev_queue *mqprio_select_queue(struct Qdisc *sch,
>> +                                               struct tcmsg *tcm)
>> +{
>> +       return mqprio_queue_get(sch, TC_H_MIN(tcm->tcm_parent));
>> +}
>> +
> 
> So I was just comparing this against mq_selet_queue, and I was
> wondering why we are willing to return NULL here instead of just
> returning a pointer to the first Tx queue? I realize there is the fix
> in the first patch but it seems like if we are going to go that route
> then maybe we should update mq as well so that both of these qdiscs
> behave the same way. Either this should work like mq, or mq should
> work like this, but we shouldn't have them exposing different
> behaviors.


This was brought up by Cong Wang during the review of our v2. Based on my
understanding, the point I've made is that for mqprio the inner qdiscs are
always 'related' to one of the Tx netdev_queues per design. Returning any other
queue as a fallback seemed like going against that to me.

I'm still inclined to say that we should keep this function as the patch is
proposing, thus either returning the correct netdev_queue for a given handle, or
NULL as a way to flag that something was 'wrong' with it. Returning queue #0 is
misleading in that sense, imho.

As for aligning mq_select_queue() with this approach, if my reasoning behind
mqprio is correct and also applies to mq, I would be happy to send that fix as
part our v7.

What do you think?


Thanks,
Jesus