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Rusty Russell 282edb3649 virtio_ring: virtqueue_add_outbuf / virtqueue_add_inbuf.
These are specialized versions of virtqueue_add_buf(), which cover
over 80% of cases and are far clearer.

In particular, the scatterlists passed to these functions don't have
to be clean (ie. we ignore end markers).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-03-20 15:44:52 +10:30
Rusty Russell 13816c768d virtio_ring: virtqueue_add_sgs, to add multiple sgs.
virtio_scsi can really use this, to avoid the current hack of copying
the whole sg array.  Some other things get slightly neater, too.

This causes a slowdown in virtqueue_add_buf(), which is implemented as
a wrapper.  This is addressed in the next patches.

for i in `seq 50`; do /usr/bin/time -f 'Wall time:%e' ./vringh_test --indirect --eventidx --parallel --fast-vringh; done 2>&1 | stats --trim-outliers:

Before:
	Using CPUS 0 and 3
	Guest: notified 0, pinged 39009-39063(39062)
	Host: notified 39009-39063(39062), pinged 0
	Wall time:1.700000-1.950000(1.723542)

After:
	Using CPUS 0 and 3
	Guest: notified 0, pinged 39062-39063(39063)
	Host: notified 39062-39063(39063), pinged 0
	Wall time:1.760000-2.220000(1.789167)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
2013-03-20 15:43:29 +10:30
Rusty Russell a9a0fef779 virtio_ring: expose virtio barriers for use in vringh.
The host side of ring needs this logic too.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-03-20 14:00:41 +10:30
Rusty Russell 98e8c6bc66 virtio: make virtqueue_add_buf() returning 0 on success, not capacity.
Now noone relies on this behavior, we simplify virtqueue_add_buf() so it
return 0 or -errno.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-12-18 15:20:34 +10:30
Rusty Russell 06ca287dba virtio: move queue_index and num_free fields into core struct virtqueue.
They're generic concepts, so hoist them.  This also avoids accessor
functions (though kept around for merge with DaveM's net tree).

This goes even further than Jason Wang's 17bb6d4088 patch
("virtio-ring: move queue_index to vring_virtqueue") which moved the
queue_index from the specific transport.

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-12-18 15:20:31 +10:30
Will Deacon b92b1b89a3 virtio: force vring descriptors to be allocated from lowmem
Virtio devices may attempt to add descriptors to a virtqueue from atomic
context using GFP_ATOMIC allocation. This is problematic because such
allocations can fall outside of the lowmem mapping, causing virt_to_phys
to report bogus physical addresses which are subsequently passed to
userspace via the buffers for the virtual device.

This patch masks out __GFP_HIGH and __GFP_HIGHMEM from the requested
flags when allocating descriptors for a virtqueue. If an atomic
allocation is requested and later fails, we will return -ENOSPC which
will be handled by the driver.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-10-22 18:19:49 +10:30
Jason Wang 17bb6d4088 virtio-ring: move queue_index to vring_virtqueue
Instead of storing the queue index in transport-specific virtio structs,
this patch moves them to vring_virtqueue and introduces an helper to get
the value.  This lets drivers simplify their management and tracing of
virtqueues.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-09-28 15:05:15 +09:30
Jason Wang a72caae218 virtio: correct the memory barrier in virtqueue_kick_prepare()
Use virtio_mb() to make sure the available index to be exposed before
checking the the avail event. Otherwise we may get stale value of
avail event in guest and never kick the host after.

Note: this fixes a bug introduced by ee7cd8981e.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2012-01-28 08:10:23 +10:30
Jason Wang 4dbc5d9f4f virtio: fix typos of memory barriers
Note: this fixes a bug introduced recently in
7b21e34fd1.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-01-28 08:10:22 +10:30
Rusty Russell e93300b1af virtio: add debugging if driver doesn't kick.
Under the existing #ifdef DEBUG, check that they don't have more than
1/10 of a second between an add_buf() and a
virtqueue_notify()/virtqueue_kick_prepare() call.

We could get false positives on a really busy system, but good for
development.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-01-12 15:44:43 +10:30
Rusty Russell ee7cd8981e virtio: expose added descriptors immediately.
A virtio driver does virtqueue_add_buf() multiple times before finally
calling virtqueue_kick(); previously we only exposed the added buffers
in the virtqueue_kick() call.  This means we don't need a memory
barrier in virtqueue_add_buf(), but it reduces concurrency as the
device (ie. host) can't see the buffers until the kick.

In the unusual (but now possible) case where a driver does add_buf()
and get_buf() without doing a kick, we do need to insert one before
our counter wraps.  Otherwise we could wrap num_added, and later on
not realize that we have passed the marker where we should have
kicked.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-01-12 15:44:43 +10:30
Rusty Russell 3b720b8c86 virtio: avoid modulus operation.
Since we know vq->vring.num is a power of 2, modulus is lazy (it's asserted
in vring_new_virtqueue()).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-01-12 15:44:43 +10:30
Rusty Russell 41f0377f73 virtio: support unlocked queue kick
Based on patch by Christoph for virtio_blk speedup:

	Split virtqueue_kick to be able to do the actual notification
	outside the lock protecting the virtqueue.  This patch was
	originally done by Stefan Hajnoczi, but I can't find the
	original one anymore and had to recreated it from memory.
	Pointers to the original or corrections for the commit message
	are welcome.

Stefan's patch was here:

	a6d06644e3
	http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-virtualization/msg14616.html

Third time's the charm!

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-01-12 15:44:43 +10:30
Rusty Russell f96fde41f7 virtio: rename virtqueue_add_buf_gfp to virtqueue_add_buf
Remove wrapper functions. This makes the allocation type explicit in
all callers; I used GPF_KERNEL where it seemed obvious, left it at
GFP_ATOMIC otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2012-01-12 15:44:42 +10:30
Rusty Russell 5dfc17628d virtio: document functions better.
The old documentation is left over from when we used a structure with
strategy pointers.

And move the documentation to the C file as per kernel practice.
Though I disagree...

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2012-01-12 15:44:42 +10:30
Rusty Russell 7b21e34fd1 virtio: harsher barriers for rpmsg.
We were cheating with our barriers; using the smp ones rather than the
real device ones.  That was fine, until rpmsg came along, which is
used to talk to a real device (a non-SMP CPU).

Unfortunately, just putting back the real barriers (reverting
d57ed95d) causes a performance regression on virtio-pci.  In
particular, Amos reports netbench's TCP_RR over virtio_net CPU
utilization increased up to 35% while throughput went down by up to
14%.

By comparison, this branch is in the noise.

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/11/22

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-01-12 15:44:42 +10:30
Paul Gortmaker b5a2c4f199 virtio: Add module.h to drivers/virtio users.
Up to now, the module.h header was as hard to keep out as
sunlight.  But we are cleaning that up.  Fix the virtio users
who simply expect module.h to be there in every C file.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:32:14 -04:00
Rick Jones 8f9f4668b3 Add ethtool -g support to virtio_net
Add support for reporting ring sizes via ethtool -g to the virtio_net
driver.

Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-24 02:07:21 -04:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 7ab358c23c virtio: add api for delayed callbacks
Add an API that tells the other side that callbacks
should be delayed until a lot of work has been done.
Implement using the new event_idx feature.

Note: it might seem advantageous to let the drivers
ask for a callback after a specific capacity has
been reached. However, as a single head can
free many entries in the descriptor table,
we don't really have a clue about capacity
until get_buf is called. The API is the simplest
to implement at the moment, we'll see what kind of
hints drivers can pass when there's more than one
user of the feature.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-05-30 11:14:16 +09:30
Michael S. Tsirkin a5c262c5fd virtio_ring: support event idx feature
Support for the new event idx feature:
1. When enabling interrupts, publish the current avail index
   value to the host to get interrupts on the next update.
2. Use the new avail_event feature to reduce the number
   of exits from the guest.

Simple test with the simulator:

[virtio]# time ./virtio_test
spurious wakeus: 0x7

real    0m0.169s
user    0m0.140s
sys     0m0.019s
[virtio]# time ./virtio_test --no-event-idx
spurious wakeus: 0x11

real    0m0.649s
user    0m0.295s
sys     0m0.335s

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-05-30 11:14:15 +09:30
Amit Shah b3258ff1d6 virtio: Decrement avail idx on buffer detach
When detaching a buffer from a vq, the avail.idx value should be
decremented as well.

This was noticed by hot-unplugging a virtio console port and then
plugging in a new one on the same number (re-using the vqs which were
just 'disowned').  qemu reported

   'Guest moved used index from 0 to 256'

when any IO was attempted on the new port.

CC: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: juzhang <juzhang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-04-21 22:57:00 +09:30
Michael S. Tsirkin 7ae4b866f8 virtio: return correct capacity to users
We can't rely on indirect buffers for capacity
calculations because they need a memory allocation
which might fail.  In particular, virtio_net can get
into this situation under stress, and it drops packets
and performs badly.

So return the number of buffers we can guarantee users.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reported-By: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
2010-11-24 15:21:11 +10:30
Michael S. Tsirkin 1fe9b6fef1 virtio: fix oops on OOM
virtio ring was changed to return an error code on OOM,
but one caller was missed and still checks for vq->vring.num.
The fix is just to check for <0 error code.

Long term it might make sense to change goto add_head to
just return an error on oom instead, but let's apply
a minimal fix for 2.6.35.

Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .34.x
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-26 08:05:31 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 686d363786 virtio: return ENOMEM on out of memory
add_buf returns ring size on out of memory,
this is not what devices expect.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .34.x
2010-06-23 22:49:06 +09:30
Michael S. Tsirkin bbd603efb4 virtio: add_buf_gfp
Add an add_buf variant that gets gfp parameter. Use that
to allocate indirect buffers.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-05-19 22:15:46 +09:30
Michael S. Tsirkin 7c5e9ed0c8 virtio_ring: remove a level of indirection
We have a single virtqueue_ops implementation,
and it seems unlikely we'll get another one
at this point. So let's remove an unnecessary
level of indirection: it would be very easy to
re-add it if another implementation surfaces.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-05-19 22:15:43 +09:30
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Amit Shah 3b8706240e virtio: Initialize vq->data entries to NULL
vq operations depend on vq->data[i] being NULL to figure out if the vq
entry is in use (since the previous patch).

We have to initialize them to NULL to ensure we don't work with junk
data and trigger false BUG_ONs.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
2010-02-24 14:22:29 +10:30
Shirley Ma c021eac414 virtio: Add ability to detach unused buffers from vrings
There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
This is redundant, since virtio_ring stores that information.  So
add a new hook to do this.

Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-02-24 14:22:27 +10:30
Michael S. Tsirkin d57ed95da4 virtio: use smp_XX barriers on SMP
virtio is communicating with a virtual "device" that actually runs on
another host processor. Thus SMP barriers can be used to control
memory access ordering.

Where possible, we should use SMP barriers which are more lightweight than
mandatory barriers, because mandatory barriers also control MMIO effects on
accesses through relaxed memory I/O windows (which virtio does not use)
(compare specifically smp_rmb and rmb on x86_64).

We can't just use smp_mb and friends though, because
we must force memory ordering even if guest is UP since host could be
running on another CPU, but SMP barriers are defined to barrier() in
that configuration. So, for UP fall back to mandatory barriers instead.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-02-24 14:22:25 +10:30
Rusty Russell 97a545ab6c virtio: remove bogus barriers from DEBUG version of virtio_ring.c
With DEBUG defined, we add an ->in_use flag to detect if the caller
invokes two virtio methods in parallel.  The barriers attempt to ensure
timely update of the ->in_use flag.

But they're voodoo: if we need these barriers it implies that the
calling code doesn't have sufficient synchronization to ensure the
code paths aren't invoked at the same time anyway, and we want to
detect it.

Also, adding barriers changes timing, so turning on debug has more
chance of hiding real problems.

Thanks to MST for drawing my attention to this code...

CC: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-02-24 14:22:24 +10:30
Michael S. Tsirkin 2d61ba9503 virtio: order used ring after used index read
On SMP guests, reads from the ring might bypass used index reads. This
causes guest crashes because host writes to used index to signal ring
data readiness.  Fix this by inserting rmb before used ring reads.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-10-29 08:50:37 +10:30
Rusty Russell 3c1b27d504 virtio: make add_buf return capacity remaining
This API change means that virtio_net can tell how much capacity
remains for buffers.  It's necessarily fuzzy, since
VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC means we can fit any number of descriptors
in one, *if* we can kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dinesh Subhraveti <dineshs@us.ibm.com>
2009-09-23 22:26:31 +09:30
Mark McLoughlin 9fa29b9df3 virtio: indirect ring entries (VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC)
Add a new feature flag for indirect ring entries. These are ring
entries which point to a table of buffer descriptors.

The idea here is to increase the ring capacity by allowing a larger
effective ring size whereby the ring size dictates the number of
requests that may be outstanding, rather than the size of those
requests.

This should be most effective in the case of block I/O where we can
potentially benefit by concurrently dispatching a large number of
large requests. Even in the simple case of single segment block
requests, this results in a threefold increase in ring capacity.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:39 +09:30
Rusty Russell 9499f5e7ed virtio: add names to virtqueue struct, mapping from devices to queues.
Add a linked list of all virtqueues for a virtio device: this helps for
debugging and is also needed for upcoming interface change.

Also, add a "name" field for clearer debug messages.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell c5f841f178 virtio: more neatening of virtio_ring macros.
Impact: cleanup

Roel Kluin drew attention to these macros with his patch: here I
neaten them a little further:
1) Add a comment on what START_USE and END_USE are checking,
2) Brackets around _vq in BAD_RING,
3) Neaten formatting for START_USE so it's less than 80 cols.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-30 21:55:23 +10:30
Roel Kluin 3a35ce7dce virtio: fix BAD_RING, START_US and END_USE macros
Impact: cleanup

fix BAD_RING, START_US and END_USE macros

When these macros aren't called with a variable named vq as first
argument, this would result in a build failure.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-30 21:55:22 +10:30
Rusty Russell 87c7d57c17 virtio: hand virtio ring alignment as argument to vring_new_virtqueue
This allows each virtio user to hand in the alignment appropriate to
their virtio_ring structures.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2008-12-30 09:26:03 +10:30
Rusty Russell e34f872567 virtio: Add transport feature handling stub for virtio_ring.
To prepare for virtio_ring transport feature bits, hook in a call in
all the users to manipulate them.  This currently just clears all the
bits, since it doesn't understand any features.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:14 +10:00
Rusty Russell 44653eae14 virtio: don't always force a notification when ring is full
We force notification when the ring is full, even if the host has
indicated it doesn't want to know.  This seemed like a good idea at
the time: if we fill the transmit ring, we should tell the host
immediately.

Unfortunately this logic also applies to the receiving ring, which is
refilled constantly.  We should introduce real notification thesholds
to replace this logic.  Meanwhile, removing the logic altogether breaks
the heuristics which KVM uses, so we use a hack: only notify if there are
outgoing parts of the new buffer.

Here are the number of exits with lguest's crappy network implementation:
Before:
	network xmit 7859051 recv 236420
After:
	network xmit 7858610 recv 118136

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:04 +10:00
Rusty Russell b4f68be6c5 virtio: force callback on empty.
virtio allows drivers to suppress callbacks (ie. interrupts) for
efficiency (no locking, it's just an optimization).

There's a similar mechanism for the host to suppress notifications
coming from the guest: in that case, we ignore the suppression if the
ring is completely full.

It turns out that life is simpler if the host similarly ignores
callback suppression when the ring is completely empty: the network
driver wants to free up old packets in a timely manner, and otherwise
has to use a timer to poll.

We have to remove the code which ignores interrupts when the driver
has disabled them (again, it had no locking and hence was unreliable
anyway).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-30 15:09:46 +10:00
Christian Borntraeger 52a3a05f3a virtio_net: another race with virtio_net and enable_cb
Hello Rusty,

seems that we still have a problem with virtio_net and the enable_cb callback.
During a long running network stress tests with virtio and got the following
oops:

------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:230!
illegal operation: 0001 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.26-rc2-kvm-00436-gc94c08b-dirty #34
Process netserver (pid: 2582, task: 000000000fbc4c68, ksp: 000000000f42b990)
Krnl PSW : 0704c00180000000 00000000002d0ec8 (vring_enable_cb+0x1c/0x60)
           R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:0 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000000ef3d000 0000000010009800
           0000000000000000 0000000000419ce0 0000000000000080 000000000000007b
           000000000adb5538 000000000ef40900 000000000ef40000 000000000ef40920
           0000000000000000 0000000000000005 000000000029c1b0 000000000fea7d18
Krnl Code: 00000000002d0ebc: a7110001           tmll    %r1,1
           00000000002d0ec0: a7740004           brc     7,2d0ec8
           00000000002d0ec4: a7f40001           brc     15,2d0ec6
          >00000000002d0ec8: a517fffe           nill    %r1,65534
           00000000002d0ecc: 40103000           sth     %r1,0(%r3)
           00000000002d0ed0: 07f0               bcr     15,%r0
           00000000002d0ed2: e31020380004       lg      %r1,56(%r2)
           00000000002d0ed8: a7480000           lhi     %r4,0
Call Trace:
([<000000000029c0fc>] virtnet_poll+0x290/0x3b8)
 [<0000000000333fb8>] net_rx_action+0x9c/0x1b8
 [<00000000001394bc>] __do_softirq+0x74/0x108
 [<000000000010d16a>] do_softirq+0x92/0xac
 [<0000000000139826>] irq_exit+0x72/0xc8
 [<000000000010a7b6>] do_extint+0xe2/0x104
 [<0000000000110508>] ext_no_vtime+0x16/0x1a
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
 [<00000000002d0ec4>] vring_enable_cb+0x18/0x60

I looked into the virtio_net code for some time and I think the following
scenario happened. Please look at virtnet_poll:
[...]
        /* Out of packets? */
        if (received < budget) {
                netif_rx_complete(vi->dev, napi);
                if (unlikely(!vi->rvq->vq_ops->enable_cb(vi->rvq))
                    && napi_schedule_prep(napi)) {
                        vi->rvq->vq_ops->disable_cb(vi->rvq);
                        __netif_rx_schedule(vi->dev, napi);
                        goto again;
                }
        }

If an interrupt arrives after netif_rx_complete, a second poll routine can run
on a different cpu. The second check for napi_schedule_prep would prevent any
harm in the network stack, but we have called enable_cb possibly after the
disable_cb in skb_recv_done.

static void skb_recv_done(struct virtqueue *rvq)
{
        struct virtnet_info *vi = rvq->vdev->priv;
        /* Schedule NAPI, Suppress further interrupts if successful. */
        if (netif_rx_schedule_prep(vi->dev, &vi->napi)) {
                rvq->vq_ops->disable_cb(rvq);
                __netif_rx_schedule(vi->dev, &vi->napi);
        }
}

That means that the second poll routine runs with interrupts enabled, which is
ok, since we can handle additional interrupts. The problem is now that the
second poll routine might also call enable_cb, triggering the BUG.

The only solution I can come up with, is to remove the BUG statement in
enable_cb - similar to disable_cb. Opinions or better ideas where the oops
could come from?

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-30 15:09:45 +10:00
Rusty Russell 5ef827526f virtio: ignore corrupted virtqueues rather than spinning.
A corrupt virtqueue (caused by the other end screwing up) can have
strange results such as a driver spinning: just bail when we try to
get a buffer from a known-broken queue.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-02 21:50:43 +10:00
Rusty Russell 2557a933b7 virtio: remove overzealous BUG_ON.
The 'disable_cb' callback is designed as an optimization to tell the host
we don't need callbacks now.  As it is not reliable, the debug check is
overzealous: it can happen on two CPUs at the same time.  Document this.

Even if it were reliable, the virtio_net driver doesn't disable
callbacks on transmit so the START_USE/END_USE debugging reentrance
protection can be easily tripped even on UP.

Thanks to Balaji Rao for the bug report and testing.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-07 13:14:22 -07:00
Christian Borntraeger 4265f161b6 virtio: fix race in enable_cb
There is a race in virtio_net, dealing with disabling/enabling the callback.
I saw the following oops:

kernel BUG at /space/kvm/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:218!
illegal operation: 0001 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: sunrpc dm_mod
CPU: 2 Not tainted 2.6.25-rc1zlive-host-10623-gd358142-dirty #99
Process swapper (pid: 0, task: 000000000f85a610, ksp: 000000000f873c60)
Krnl PSW : 0404300180000000 00000000002b81a6 (vring_disable_cb+0x16/0x20)
           R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:3 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 0000000010005800 0000000000000001
           000000000f3a0900 000000000f85a610 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
           0000000000000000 000000000f870000 0000000000000000 0000000000001237
           000000000f3a0920 000000000010ff74 00000000002846f6 000000000fa0bcd8
Krnl Code: 00000000002b819a: a7110001           tmll    %r1,1
           00000000002b819e: a7840004           brc     8,2b81a6
           00000000002b81a2: a7f40001           brc     15,2b81a4
          >00000000002b81a6: a51b0001           oill    %r1,1
           00000000002b81aa: 40102000           sth     %r1,0(%r2)
           00000000002b81ae: 07fe               bcr     15,%r14
           00000000002b81b0: eb7ff0380024       stmg    %r7,%r15,56(%r15)
           00000000002b81b6: a7f13e00           tmll    %r15,15872
Call Trace:
([<000000000fa0bcd0>] 0xfa0bcd0)
 [<00000000002b8350>] vring_interrupt+0x5c/0x6c
 [<000000000010ab08>] do_extint+0xb8/0xf0
 [<0000000000110716>] ext_no_vtime+0x16/0x1a
 [<0000000000107e72>] cpu_idle+0x1c2/0x1e0

The problem can be triggered with a high amount of host->guest traffic.
I think its the following race:

poll says netif_rx_complete
poll calls enable_cb
enable_cb opens the interrupt mask
a new packet comes, an interrupt is triggered----\
enable_cb sees that there is more work           |
enable_cb disables the interrupt                 |
       .                                         V
       .                            interrupt is delivered
       .                            skb_recv_done does atomic napi test, ok
 some waiting                       disable_cb is called->check fails->bang!
       .
poll would do napi check
poll would do disable_cb

The fix is to let enable_cb not disable the interrupt again, but expect the
caller to do the cleanup if it returns false. In that case, the interrupt is
only disabled, if the napi test_set_bit was successful.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (cleaned up doco)
2008-03-17 22:58:21 +11:00
Rusty Russell c6fd47011b virtio: Allow virtio to be modular and used by modules
This is needed for the virtio PCI device to be compiled as a module.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:50:06 +11:00
Rusty Russell 15f9c8903c virtio: Use the sg_phys convenience function.
Simple cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:50:05 +11:00
Rusty Russell 81a8deab1c virtio: handle interrupts after callbacks turned off
Anthony Liguori found double interrupt suppression in the virtio_net
driver, triggered by two skb_recv_done's in a row.  This is because
virtio_ring's interrupt suppression is a best-effort optimization: it
contains no synchronization so the host can miss it and still send
interrupts.

But it's certainly nicer for virtio users if calling disable_cb
actually disables callbacks, so we check for the race in the interrupt
routine.

Note: SMP guests might require syncronization here, but since
disable_cb is actually called from interrupt context, there has to be
some form of synchronization before the next same interrupt handler is
called (Linux guarantees that the same device's irq handler will never
run simultanously on multiple CPUs).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:50:04 +11:00
Rusty Russell 6e5aa7efb2 virtio: reset function
A reset function solves three problems:

1) It allows us to renegotiate features, eg. if we want to upgrade a
   guest driver without rebooting the guest.

2) It gives us a clean way of shutting down virtqueues: after a reset,
   we know that the buffers won't be used by the host, and

3) It helps the guest recover from messed-up drivers.

So we remove the ->shutdown hook, and the only way we now remove
feature bits is via reset.

We leave it to the driver to do the reset before it deletes queues:
the balloon driver, for example, needs to chat to the host in its
remove function.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:50:03 +11:00
Rusty Russell 426e3e0af5 virtio: clarify NO_NOTIFY flag usage
The other side (host) can set the NO_NOTIFY flag as an optimization,
to say "no need to kick me when you add things".  Make it clear that
this is advisory only; especially that we should always notify when
the ring is full.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:50:00 +11:00