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Message-ID: <c487d07a-55ff-a49f-79d3-bf7dbf480127@nvidia.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2022 11:15:40 +0800
From: Gavin Li <gavinl@...dia.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, stephen@...workplumber.org,
davem@...emloft.net, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com,
alexander.h.duyck@...el.com, kuba@...nel.org,
sridhar.samudrala@...el.com, loseweigh@...il.com,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org, mst@...hat.com
Cc: gavi@...dia.com, parav@...dia.com,
Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>,
Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH v5 2/2] virtio-net: use mtu size as buffer
length for big packets
On 9/7/2022 10:17 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
> External email: Use caution opening links or attachments
>
>
> 在 2022/9/1 10:10, Gavin Li 写道:
>> Currently add_recvbuf_big() allocates MAX_SKB_FRAGS segments for big
>> packets even when GUEST_* offloads are not present on the device.
>> However, if guest GSO is not supported, it would be sufficient to
>> allocate segments to cover just up the MTU size and no further.
>> Allocating the maximum amount of segments results in a large waste of
>> buffer space in the queue, which limits the number of packets that can
>> be buffered and can result in reduced performance.
>>
>> Therefore, if guest GSO is not supported, use the MTU to calculate the
>> optimal amount of segments required.
>>
>> When guest offload is enabled at runtime, RQ already has packets of
>> bytes
>> less than 64K. So when packet of 64KB arrives, all the packets of such
>> size will be dropped. and RQ is now not usable.
>>
>> So this means that during set_guest_offloads() phase, RQs have to be
>> destroyed and recreated, which requires almost driver reload.
>>
>> If VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS has been negotiated, then it should
>> always treat them as GSO enabled.
>>
>> Accordingly, for now the assumption is that if guest GSO has been
>> negotiated then it has been enabled, even if it's actually been disabled
>> at runtime through VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS.
>
>
> Nit: Actually, it's not the assumption but the behavior of the codes
> itself. Since we don't try to change guest offloading in probe so it's
> ok to check GSO via negotiated features?
ACK
Should be
>
> Thanks
>
>
>>
>> Below is the iperf TCP test results over a Mellanox NIC, using vDPA for
>> 1 VQ, queue size 1024, before and after the change, with the iperf
>> server running over the virtio-net interface.
>>
>> MTU(Bytes)/Bandwidth (Gbit/s)
>> Before After
>> 1500 22.5 22.4
>> 9000 12.8 25.9
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gavin Li <gavinl@...dia.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Gavi Teitz <gavi@...dia.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <parav@...dia.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@...cle.com>
>> ---
>> changelog:
>> v4->v5
>> - Addressed comments from Michael S. Tsirkin
>> - Improve commit message
>> v3->v4
>> - Addressed comments from Si-Wei
>> - Rename big_packets_sg_num with big_packets_num_skbfrags
>> v2->v3
>> - Addressed comments from Si-Wei
>> - Simplify the condition check to enable the optimization
>> v1->v2
>> - Addressed comments from Jason, Michael, Si-Wei.
>> - Remove the flag of guest GSO support, set sg_num for big packets and
>> use it directly
>> - Recalculate sg_num for big packets in virtnet_set_guest_offloads
>> - Replace the round up algorithm with DIV_ROUND_UP
>> ---
>> drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>> 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> index f831a0290998..dbffd5f56fb8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> @@ -225,6 +225,9 @@ struct virtnet_info {
>> /* I like... big packets and I cannot lie! */
>> bool big_packets;
>>
>> + /* number of sg entries allocated for big packets */
>> + unsigned int big_packets_num_skbfrags;
>> +
>> /* Host will merge rx buffers for big packets (shake it! shake
>> it!) */
>> bool mergeable_rx_bufs;
>>
>> @@ -1331,10 +1334,10 @@ static int add_recvbuf_big(struct
>> virtnet_info *vi, struct receive_queue *rq,
>> char *p;
>> int i, err, offset;
>>
>> - sg_init_table(rq->sg, MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2);
>> + sg_init_table(rq->sg, vi->big_packets_num_skbfrags + 2);
>>
>> - /* page in rq->sg[MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1] is list tail */
>> - for (i = MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1; i > 1; --i) {
>> + /* page in rq->sg[vi->big_packets_num_skbfrags + 1] is list
>> tail */
>> + for (i = vi->big_packets_num_skbfrags + 1; i > 1; --i) {
>> first = get_a_page(rq, gfp);
>> if (!first) {
>> if (list)
>> @@ -1365,7 +1368,7 @@ static int add_recvbuf_big(struct virtnet_info
>> *vi, struct receive_queue *rq,
>>
>> /* chain first in list head */
>> first->private = (unsigned long)list;
>> - err = virtqueue_add_inbuf(rq->vq, rq->sg, MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2,
>> + err = virtqueue_add_inbuf(rq->vq, rq->sg,
>> vi->big_packets_num_skbfrags + 2,
>> first, gfp);
>> if (err < 0)
>> give_pages(rq, first);
>> @@ -3690,13 +3693,27 @@ static bool virtnet_check_guest_gso(const
>> struct virtnet_info *vi)
>> virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_UFO);
>> }
>>
>> +static void virtnet_set_big_packets_fields(struct virtnet_info *vi,
>> const int mtu)
>> +{
>> + bool guest_gso = virtnet_check_guest_gso(vi);
>> +
>> + /* If device can receive ANY guest GSO packets, regardless of mtu,
>> + * allocate packets of maximum size, otherwise limit it to only
>> + * mtu size worth only.
>> + */
>> + if (mtu > ETH_DATA_LEN || guest_gso) {
>> + vi->big_packets = true;
>> + vi->big_packets_num_skbfrags = guest_gso ?
>> MAX_SKB_FRAGS : DIV_ROUND_UP(mtu, PAGE_SIZE);
>> + }
>> +}
>> +
>> static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>> {
>> int i, err = -ENOMEM;
>> struct net_device *dev;
>> struct virtnet_info *vi;
>> u16 max_queue_pairs;
>> - int mtu;
>> + int mtu = 0;
>>
>> /* Find if host supports multiqueue/rss virtio_net device */
>> max_queue_pairs = 1;
>> @@ -3784,10 +3801,6 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device
>> *vdev)
>> INIT_WORK(&vi->config_work, virtnet_config_changed_work);
>> spin_lock_init(&vi->refill_lock);
>>
>> - /* If we can receive ANY GSO packets, we must allocate large
>> ones. */
>> - if (virtnet_check_guest_gso(vi))
>> - vi->big_packets = true;
>> -
>> if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF))
>> vi->mergeable_rx_bufs = true;
>>
>> @@ -3853,12 +3866,10 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device
>> *vdev)
>>
>> dev->mtu = mtu;
>> dev->max_mtu = mtu;
>> -
>> - /* TODO: size buffers correctly in this case. */
>> - if (dev->mtu > ETH_DATA_LEN)
>> - vi->big_packets = true;
>> }
>>
>> + virtnet_set_big_packets_fields(vi, mtu);
>> +
>> if (vi->any_header_sg)
>> dev->needed_headroom = vi->hdr_len;
>>
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