Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] virtio net: spurious interrupt related fixes

[Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 4:24 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
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> With the implementation of napi-tx in virtio driver, we clean tx
> descriptors from rx napi handler, for the purpose of reducing tx
> complete interrupts. But this introduces a race where tx complete
> interrupt has been raised, but the handler finds there is no work to do
> because we have done the work in the previous rx interrupt handler.
> A similar issue exists with polling from start_xmit, it is however
> less common because of the delayed cb optimization of the split ring -
> but will likely affect the packed ring once that is more common.
>
> In particular, this was reported to lead to the following warning msg:
> [ 3588.010778] irq 38: nobody cared (try booting with the
> "irqpoll" option)
> [ 3588.017938] CPU: 4 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/4 Not tainted
> 5.3.0-19-generic #20~18.04.2-Ubuntu
> [ 3588.017940] Call Trace:
> [ 3588.017942]  <IRQ>
> [ 3588.017951]  dump_stack+0x63/0x85
> [ 3588.017953]  __report_bad_irq+0x35/0xc0
> [ 3588.017955]  note_interrupt+0x24b/0x2a0
> [ 3588.017956]  handle_irq_event_percpu+0x54/0x80
> [ 3588.017957]  handle_irq_event+0x3b/0x60
> [ 3588.017958]  handle_edge_irq+0x83/0x1a0
> [ 3588.017961]  handle_irq+0x20/0x30
> [ 3588.017964]  do_IRQ+0x50/0xe0
> [ 3588.017966]  common_interrupt+0xf/0xf
> [ 3588.017966]  </IRQ>
> [ 3588.017989] handlers:
> [ 3588.020374] [<000000001b9f1da8>] vring_interrupt
> [ 3588.025099] Disabling IRQ #38
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> This patchset attempts to fix this by cleaning up a bunch of races
> related to the handling of sq callbacks (aka tx interrupts).
> Somewhat tested but I couldn't reproduce the original issues
> reported, sending out for help with testing.
>
> Wei, does this address the spurious interrupt issue you are
> observing? Could you confirm please?

Thanks for working on this, Michael. Wei is on leave. I'll try to reproduce.

My main concern is whether the cost of the fix may be greater than the
race, if the additional locking may significantly impact
efficiency/throughput/latency. We lack that performance data right
now. The race had not been reported for years, and caused no real
concerns in the initial report we did get, either. That said, it may
be more problematic in specific scenarios, such as the packed rings
you pointed out.

One (additional) short term mitigation could be to further restrict
tx_napi default-on to exclude such scenarios.

Let me take a closer look at the individual patches.


>
> Thanks!
>
> changes from v2:
>         Fixed a race condition in start_xmit: enable_cb_delayed was
>         done as an optimization (to push out event index for
>         split ring) so we did not have to care about it
>         returning false (recheck). Now that we actually disable the cb
>         we have to do test the return value and do the actual recheck.
>
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> Michael S. Tsirkin (4):
>   virtio_net: move tx vq operation under tx queue lock
>   virtio_net: move txq wakeups under tx q lock
>   virtio: fix up virtio_disable_cb
>   virtio_net: disable cb aggressively
>
>  drivers/net/virtio_net.c     | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
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> MST
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