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Message-ID: <CANn89i+0u=DmAd1_vv-vJsJ53L2y6v7pvvTgrVN9D=rGo9-ifA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 08:32:30 -0700
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: Use this_cpu_inc() to increment net->core_stats
On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 7:00 AM Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<bigeasy@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> The macro dev_core_stats_##FIELD##_inc() disables preemption and invokes
> netdev_core_stats_alloc() to return a per-CPU pointer.
> netdev_core_stats_alloc() will allocate memory on its first invocation
> which breaks on PREEMPT_RT because it requires non-atomic context for
> memory allocation.
Can you elaborate on this, I am confused ?
You are saying that on PREEMPT_RT, we can not call
alloc_percpu_gfp(XXX, GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN);
under some contexts ?
preemption might be disabled by callers of net->core_stats anyways...
>
> This can be avoided by enabling preemption in netdev_core_stats_alloc()
> assuming the caller always disables preemption.
>
> It might be better to replace local_inc() with this_cpu_inc() now that
> dev_core_stats_##FIELD##_inc() gained a preempt-disable section and does
> not rely on already disabled preemption. This results in less
> instructions on x86-64:
> local_inc:
> | incl %gs:__preempt_count(%rip) # __preempt_count
> | movq 488(%rdi), %rax # _1->core_stats, _22
> | testq %rax, %rax # _22
> | je .L585 #,
> | add %gs:this_cpu_off(%rip), %rax # this_cpu_off, tcp_ptr__
> | .L586:
> | testq %rax, %rax # _27
> | je .L587 #,
> | incq (%rax) # _6->a.counter
> | .L587:
> | decl %gs:__preempt_count(%rip) # __preempt_count
>
> this_cpu_inc(), this patch:
> | movq 488(%rdi), %rax # _1->core_stats, _5
> | testq %rax, %rax # _5
> | je .L591 #,
> | .L585:
> | incq %gs:(%rax) # _18->rx_dropped
>
> Use unsigned long as type for the counter. Use this_cpu_inc() to
> increment the counter. Use a plain read of the counter.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
> ---
> include/linux/netdevice.h | 17 +++++++----------
> net/core/dev.c | 14 +++++---------
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> index 59e27a2b7bf04..0009112b23767 100644
> --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
> +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> @@ -199,10 +199,10 @@ struct net_device_stats {
> * Try to fit them in a single cache line, for dev_get_stats() sake.
> */
> struct net_device_core_stats {
> - local_t rx_dropped;
> - local_t tx_dropped;
> - local_t rx_nohandler;
> -} __aligned(4 * sizeof(local_t));
> + unsigned long rx_dropped;
> + unsigned long tx_dropped;
> + unsigned long rx_nohandler;
> +} __aligned(4 * sizeof(unsigned long));
>
> #include <linux/cache.h>
> #include <linux/skbuff.h>
> @@ -3843,7 +3843,7 @@ static __always_inline bool __is_skb_forwardable(const struct net_device *dev,
> return false;
> }
>
> -struct net_device_core_stats *netdev_core_stats_alloc(struct net_device *dev);
> +struct net_device_core_stats __percpu *netdev_core_stats_alloc(struct net_device *dev);
>
> static inline struct net_device_core_stats *dev_core_stats(struct net_device *dev)
> {
> @@ -3851,7 +3851,7 @@ static inline struct net_device_core_stats *dev_core_stats(struct net_device *de
> struct net_device_core_stats __percpu *p = READ_ONCE(dev->core_stats);
>
> if (likely(p))
> - return this_cpu_ptr(p);
> + return p;
>
> return netdev_core_stats_alloc(dev);
> }
> @@ -3861,12 +3861,9 @@ static inline void dev_core_stats_##FIELD##_inc(struct net_device *dev) \
> { \
> struct net_device_core_stats *p; \
> \
> - preempt_disable(); \
> p = dev_core_stats(dev); \
> - \
> if (p) \
> - local_inc(&p->FIELD); \
> - preempt_enable(); \
> + this_cpu_inc(p->FIELD); \
> }
> DEV_CORE_STATS_INC(rx_dropped)
> DEV_CORE_STATS_INC(tx_dropped)
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 9ec51c1d77cf4..bf6026158874e 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -10309,7 +10309,7 @@ void netdev_stats_to_stats64(struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats64,
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_stats_to_stats64);
>
> -struct net_device_core_stats *netdev_core_stats_alloc(struct net_device *dev)
> +struct net_device_core_stats __percpu *netdev_core_stats_alloc(struct net_device *dev)
> {
> struct net_device_core_stats __percpu *p;
>
> @@ -10320,11 +10320,7 @@ struct net_device_core_stats *netdev_core_stats_alloc(struct net_device *dev)
> free_percpu(p);
>
> /* This READ_ONCE() pairs with the cmpxchg() above */
> - p = READ_ONCE(dev->core_stats);
> - if (!p)
> - return NULL;
> -
> - return this_cpu_ptr(p);
> + return READ_ONCE(dev->core_stats);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_core_stats_alloc);
>
> @@ -10361,9 +10357,9 @@ struct rtnl_link_stats64 *dev_get_stats(struct net_device *dev,
>
> for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
> core_stats = per_cpu_ptr(p, i);
> - storage->rx_dropped += local_read(&core_stats->rx_dropped);
> - storage->tx_dropped += local_read(&core_stats->tx_dropped);
> - storage->rx_nohandler += local_read(&core_stats->rx_nohandler);
> + storage->rx_dropped += core_stats->rx_dropped;
> + storage->tx_dropped += core_stats->tx_dropped;
> + storage->rx_nohandler += core_stats->rx_nohandler;
> }
> }
> return storage;
> --
> 2.35.2
>
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