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SubjectRe: [PATCH net v3] net: sched: fix packet stuck problem for lockless qdisc
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On 25.03.21 04:13, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> Lockless qdisc has below concurrent problem:
> cpu0 cpu1
> . .
> q->enqueue .
> . .
> qdisc_run_begin() .
> . .
> dequeue_skb() .
> . .
> sch_direct_xmit() .
> . .
> . q->enqueue
> . qdisc_run_begin()
> . return and do nothing
> . .
> qdisc_run_end() .
>
> cpu1 enqueue a skb without calling __qdisc_run() because cpu0
> has not released the lock yet and spin_trylock() return false
> for cpu1 in qdisc_run_begin(), and cpu0 do not see the skb
> enqueued by cpu1 when calling dequeue_skb() because cpu1 may
> enqueue the skb after cpu0 calling dequeue_skb() and before
> cpu0 calling qdisc_run_end().
>
> Lockless qdisc has below another concurrent problem when
> tx_action is involved:
>
> cpu0(serving tx_action) cpu1 cpu2
> . . .
> . q->enqueue .
> . qdisc_run_begin() .
> . dequeue_skb() .
> . . q->enqueue
> . . .
> . sch_direct_xmit() .
> . . qdisc_run_begin()
> . . return and do nothing
> . . .
> clear __QDISC_STATE_SCHED . .
> qdisc_run_begin() . .
> return and do nothing . .
> . . .
> . qdisc_run_end() .
>
> This patch fixes the above data race by:
> 1. Get the flag before doing spin_trylock().
> 2. If the first spin_trylock() return false and the flag is not
> set before the first spin_trylock(), Set the flag and retry
> another spin_trylock() in case other CPU may not see the new
> flag after it releases the lock.
> 3. reschedule if the flags is set after the lock is released
> at the end of qdisc_run_end().
>
> For tx_action case, the flags is also set when cpu1 is at the
> end if qdisc_run_end(), so tx_action will be rescheduled
> again to dequeue the skb enqueued by cpu2.
>
> Only clear the flag before retrying a dequeuing when dequeuing
> returns NULL in order to reduce the overhead of the above double
> spin_trylock() and __netif_schedule() calling.
>
> The performance impact of this patch, tested using pktgen and
> dummy netdev with pfifo_fast qdisc attached:
>
> threads without+this_patch with+this_patch delta
> 1 2.61Mpps 2.60Mpps -0.3%
> 2 3.97Mpps 3.82Mpps -3.7%
> 4 5.62Mpps 5.59Mpps -0.5%
> 8 2.78Mpps 2.77Mpps -0.3%
> 16 2.22Mpps 2.22Mpps -0.0%
>
> Fixes: 6b3ba9146fe6 ("net: sched: allow qdiscs to handle locking")
> Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>

I have a setup which is able to reproduce the issue quite reliably:

In a Xen guest I'm mounting 8 NFS shares and run sysbench fileio on
each of them. The average latency reported by sysbench is well below
1 msec, but at least once per hour I get latencies in the minute
range.

With this patch I don't see these high latencies any longer (test
is running for more than 20 hours now).

So you can add my:

Tested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Juergen
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