[PATCH V3 0/2] vhost_net polling optimization

[PATCH V3 0/2] vhost_net polling optimization

[Jason Wang]

Hi:

This series tries to optimize vhost_net polling at two points:

- Stop rx polling for reduicng the unnecessary wakeups during
  handle_rx().
- Conditonally enable tx polling for reducing the unnecessary
  traversing and spinlock touching.

Test shows about 17% improvement on rx pps.

Please review

Changes from V2:
- Don't enable rx vq if we meet an err or rx vq is empty
Changes from V1:
- use vhost_net_disable_vq()/vhost_net_enable_vq() instead of open
  coding.
- Add a new patch for conditionally enable tx polling.

Jason Wang (2):
  vhost_net: stop polling socket during rx processing
  vhost_net: conditionally enable tx polling

 drivers/vhost/net.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

-- 
1.8.3.1

[PATCH V3 1/2] vhost_net: stop polling socket during rx processing

[Jason Wang]

We don't stop rx polling socket during rx processing, this will lead
unnecessary wakeups from under layer net devices (E.g
sock_def_readable() form tun). Rx will be slowed down in this
way. This patch avoids this by stop polling socket during rx
processing. A small drawback is that this introduces some overheads in
light load case because of the extra start/stop polling, but single
netperf TCP_RR does not notice any change. In a super heavy load case,
e.g using pktgen to inject packet to guest, we get about ~8.8%
improvement on pps:

before: ~1240000 pkt/s
after:  ~1350000 pkt/s

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/net.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index f744eeb..1d3e45f 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -301,6 +301,32 @@ static bool vhost_can_busy_poll(struct vhost_dev *dev,
 	       !vhost_has_work(dev);
 }
 
+static void vhost_net_disable_vq(struct vhost_net *n,
+				 struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
+{
+	struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq =
+		container_of(vq, struct vhost_net_virtqueue, vq);
+	struct vhost_poll *poll = n->poll + (nvq - n->vqs);
+	if (!vq->private_data)
+		return;
+	vhost_poll_stop(poll);
+}
+
+static int vhost_net_enable_vq(struct vhost_net *n,
+				struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
+{
+	struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq =
+		container_of(vq, struct vhost_net_virtqueue, vq);
+	struct vhost_poll *poll = n->poll + (nvq - n->vqs);
+	struct socket *sock;
+
+	sock = vq->private_data;
+	if (!sock)
+		return 0;
+
+	return vhost_poll_start(poll, sock->file);
+}
+
 static int vhost_net_tx_get_vq_desc(struct vhost_net *net,
 				    struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 				    struct iovec iov[], unsigned int iov_size,
@@ -613,6 +639,7 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
 	if (!sock)
 		goto out;
 	vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
+	vhost_net_disable_vq(net, vq);
 
 	vhost_hlen = nvq->vhost_hlen;
 	sock_hlen = nvq->sock_hlen;
@@ -629,7 +656,7 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
 					likely(mergeable) ? UIO_MAXIOV : 1);
 		/* On error, stop handling until the next kick. */
 		if (unlikely(headcount < 0))
-			break;
+			goto out;
 		/* On overrun, truncate and discard */
 		if (unlikely(headcount > UIO_MAXIOV)) {
 			iov_iter_init(&msg.msg_iter, READ, vq->iov, 1, 1);
@@ -648,7 +675,7 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
 			}
 			/* Nothing new?  Wait for eventfd to tell us
 			 * they refilled. */
-			break;
+			goto out;
 		}
 		/* We don't need to be notified again. */
 		iov_iter_init(&msg.msg_iter, READ, vq->iov, in, vhost_len);
@@ -676,7 +703,7 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
 					 &fixup) != sizeof(hdr)) {
 				vq_err(vq, "Unable to write vnet_hdr "
 				       "at addr %p\n", vq->iov->iov_base);
-				break;
+				goto out;
 			}
 		} else {
 			/* Header came from socket; we'll need to patch
@@ -692,7 +719,7 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
 				 &fixup) != sizeof num_buffers) {
 			vq_err(vq, "Failed num_buffers write");
 			vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, headcount);
-			break;
+			goto out;
 		}
 		vhost_add_used_and_signal_n(&net->dev, vq, vq->heads,
 					    headcount);
@@ -701,9 +728,10 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
 		total_len += vhost_len;
 		if (unlikely(total_len >= VHOST_NET_WEIGHT)) {
 			vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
-			break;
+			goto out;
 		}
 	}
+	vhost_net_enable_vq(net, vq);
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
 }
@@ -782,32 +810,6 @@ static int vhost_net_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *f)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void vhost_net_disable_vq(struct vhost_net *n,
-				 struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
-{
-	struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq =
-		container_of(vq, struct vhost_net_virtqueue, vq);
-	struct vhost_poll *poll = n->poll + (nvq - n->vqs);
-	if (!vq->private_data)
-		return;
-	vhost_poll_stop(poll);
-}
-
-static int vhost_net_enable_vq(struct vhost_net *n,
-				struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
-{
-	struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq =
-		container_of(vq, struct vhost_net_virtqueue, vq);
-	struct vhost_poll *poll = n->poll + (nvq - n->vqs);
-	struct socket *sock;
-
-	sock = vq->private_data;
-	if (!sock)
-		return 0;
-
-	return vhost_poll_start(poll, sock->file);
-}
-
 static struct socket *vhost_net_stop_vq(struct vhost_net *n,
 					struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
 {
-- 
1.8.3.1

[PATCH V3 2/2] vhost_net: conditionally enable tx polling

[Jason Wang]

We always poll tx for socket, this is sub optimal since:

- it will be only used when we exceed the sndbuf of the socket.
- since we use two independent polls for tx and vq, this will slightly
  increase the waitqueue traversing time and more important, vhost
  could not benefit from commit
  9e641bdcfa4ef4d6e2fbaa59c1be0ad5d1551fd5 ("net-tun: restructure
  tun_do_read for better sleep/wakeup efficiency") even if we've
  stopped rx polling during handle_rx since tx poll were still left in
  the waitqueue.

Fix this by conditionally enable tx polling only when -EAGAIN were
met.

Test shows about 8% improvement on guest rx pps.

Before: ~1350000
After:  ~1460000

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/net.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 1d3e45f..e75ffcc 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
 		goto out;
 
 	vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
+	vhost_net_disable_vq(net, vq);
 
 	hdr_size = nvq->vhost_hlen;
 	zcopy = nvq->ubufs;
@@ -459,6 +460,8 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
 					% UIO_MAXIOV;
 			}
 			vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, 1);
+			if (err == -EAGAIN)
+				vhost_net_enable_vq(net, vq);
 			break;
 		}
 		if (err != len)
-- 
1.8.3.1

Re: [PATCH V3 0/2] vhost_net polling optimization

[David Miller]

From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Date: Wed,  1 Jun 2016 01:56:32 -0400

> This series tries to optimize vhost_net polling at two points:
> 
> - Stop rx polling for reduicng the unnecessary wakeups during
>   handle_rx().
> - Conditonally enable tx polling for reducing the unnecessary
>   traversing and spinlock touching.
> 
> Test shows about 17% improvement on rx pps.
> 
> Please review
> 
> Changes from V2:
> - Don't enable rx vq if we meet an err or rx vq is empty
> Changes from V1:
> - use vhost_net_disable_vq()/vhost_net_enable_vq() instead of open
>   coding.
> - Add a new patch for conditionally enable tx polling.

Michael, please review this patch series.

Thanks.

Re: [PATCH V3 0/2] vhost_net polling optimization

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 12:08:06PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed,  1 Jun 2016 01:56:32 -0400
> 
> > This series tries to optimize vhost_net polling at two points:
> > 
> > - Stop rx polling for reduicng the unnecessary wakeups during
> >   handle_rx().
> > - Conditonally enable tx polling for reducing the unnecessary
> >   traversing and spinlock touching.
> > 
> > Test shows about 17% improvement on rx pps.
> > 
> > Please review
> > 
> > Changes from V2:
> > - Don't enable rx vq if we meet an err or rx vq is empty
> > Changes from V1:
> > - use vhost_net_disable_vq()/vhost_net_enable_vq() instead of open
> >   coding.
> > - Add a new patch for conditionally enable tx polling.
> 
> Michael, please review this patch series.
> 
> Thanks.

thanks for the reminder, I plan to review next week.

Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] vhost_net: stop polling socket during rx processing

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 01:56:33AM -0400, Jason Wang wrote:
> We don't stop rx polling socket during rx processing, this will lead
> unnecessary wakeups from under layer net devices (E.g
> sock_def_readable() form tun). Rx will be slowed down in this
> way. This patch avoids this by stop polling socket during rx
> processing. A small drawback is that this introduces some overheads in
> light load case because of the extra start/stop polling, but single
> netperf TCP_RR does not notice any change. In a super heavy load case,
> e.g using pktgen to inject packet to guest, we get about ~8.8%
> improvement on pps:
> 
> before: ~1240000 pkt/s
> after:  ~1350000 pkt/s
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

I guess this works though I suspect it's even faster to
maintain some state in the vq structure so we don't need
to play with waitq all the time.

For now

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>



> ---
>  drivers/vhost/net.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> index f744eeb..1d3e45f 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> @@ -301,6 +301,32 @@ static bool vhost_can_busy_poll(struct vhost_dev *dev,
>  	       !vhost_has_work(dev);
>  }
>  
> +static void vhost_net_disable_vq(struct vhost_net *n,
> +				 struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
> +{
> +	struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq =
> +		container_of(vq, struct vhost_net_virtqueue, vq);
> +	struct vhost_poll *poll = n->poll + (nvq - n->vqs);
> +	if (!vq->private_data)
> +		return;
> +	vhost_poll_stop(poll);
> +}
> +
> +static int vhost_net_enable_vq(struct vhost_net *n,
> +				struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
> +{
> +	struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq =
> +		container_of(vq, struct vhost_net_virtqueue, vq);
> +	struct vhost_poll *poll = n->poll + (nvq - n->vqs);
> +	struct socket *sock;
> +
> +	sock = vq->private_data;
> +	if (!sock)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	return vhost_poll_start(poll, sock->file);
> +}
> +
>  static int vhost_net_tx_get_vq_desc(struct vhost_net *net,
>  				    struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
>  				    struct iovec iov[], unsigned int iov_size,
> @@ -613,6 +639,7 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
>  	if (!sock)
>  		goto out;
>  	vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
> +	vhost_net_disable_vq(net, vq);
>  
>  	vhost_hlen = nvq->vhost_hlen;
>  	sock_hlen = nvq->sock_hlen;
> @@ -629,7 +656,7 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
>  					likely(mergeable) ? UIO_MAXIOV : 1);
>  		/* On error, stop handling until the next kick. */
>  		if (unlikely(headcount < 0))
> -			break;
> +			goto out;
>  		/* On overrun, truncate and discard */
>  		if (unlikely(headcount > UIO_MAXIOV)) {
>  			iov_iter_init(&msg.msg_iter, READ, vq->iov, 1, 1);
> @@ -648,7 +675,7 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
>  			}
>  			/* Nothing new?  Wait for eventfd to tell us
>  			 * they refilled. */
> -			break;
> +			goto out;
>  		}
>  		/* We don't need to be notified again. */
>  		iov_iter_init(&msg.msg_iter, READ, vq->iov, in, vhost_len);
> @@ -676,7 +703,7 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
>  					 &fixup) != sizeof(hdr)) {
>  				vq_err(vq, "Unable to write vnet_hdr "
>  				       "at addr %p\n", vq->iov->iov_base);
> -				break;
> +				goto out;
>  			}
>  		} else {
>  			/* Header came from socket; we'll need to patch
> @@ -692,7 +719,7 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
>  				 &fixup) != sizeof num_buffers) {
>  			vq_err(vq, "Failed num_buffers write");
>  			vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, headcount);
> -			break;
> +			goto out;
>  		}
>  		vhost_add_used_and_signal_n(&net->dev, vq, vq->heads,
>  					    headcount);
> @@ -701,9 +728,10 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
>  		total_len += vhost_len;
>  		if (unlikely(total_len >= VHOST_NET_WEIGHT)) {
>  			vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
> -			break;
> +			goto out;
>  		}
>  	}
> +	vhost_net_enable_vq(net, vq);
>  out:
>  	mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
>  }
> @@ -782,32 +810,6 @@ static int vhost_net_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *f)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static void vhost_net_disable_vq(struct vhost_net *n,
> -				 struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
> -{
> -	struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq =
> -		container_of(vq, struct vhost_net_virtqueue, vq);
> -	struct vhost_poll *poll = n->poll + (nvq - n->vqs);
> -	if (!vq->private_data)
> -		return;
> -	vhost_poll_stop(poll);
> -}
> -
> -static int vhost_net_enable_vq(struct vhost_net *n,
> -				struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
> -{
> -	struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq =
> -		container_of(vq, struct vhost_net_virtqueue, vq);
> -	struct vhost_poll *poll = n->poll + (nvq - n->vqs);
> -	struct socket *sock;
> -
> -	sock = vq->private_data;
> -	if (!sock)
> -		return 0;
> -
> -	return vhost_poll_start(poll, sock->file);
> -}
> -
>  static struct socket *vhost_net_stop_vq(struct vhost_net *n,
>  					struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
>  {
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1

Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] vhost_net: conditionally enable tx polling

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 01:56:34AM -0400, Jason Wang wrote:
> We always poll tx for socket, this is sub optimal since:
> 
> - it will be only used when we exceed the sndbuf of the socket.
> - since we use two independent polls for tx and vq, this will slightly
>   increase the waitqueue traversing time and more important, vhost
>   could not benefit from commit
>   9e641bdcfa4ef4d6e2fbaa59c1be0ad5d1551fd5 ("net-tun: restructure
>   tun_do_read for better sleep/wakeup efficiency") even if we've
>   stopped rx polling during handle_rx since tx poll were still left in
>   the waitqueue.
> 
> Fix this by conditionally enable tx polling only when -EAGAIN were
> met.
> 
> Test shows about 8% improvement on guest rx pps.
> 
> Before: ~1350000
> After:  ~1460000
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/vhost/net.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> index 1d3e45f..e75ffcc 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> @@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
> +	vhost_net_disable_vq(net, vq);
>  
>  	hdr_size = nvq->vhost_hlen;
>  	zcopy = nvq->ubufs;
> @@ -459,6 +460,8 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
>  					% UIO_MAXIOV;
>  			}
>  			vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, 1);
> +			if (err == -EAGAIN)
> +				vhost_net_enable_vq(net, vq);
>  			break;
>  		}
>  		if (err != len)

This seems rather risky. What if TX failed for some other reason?
Polling won't ever be re-enabled ...


> -- 
> 1.8.3.1

Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] vhost_net: stop polling socket during rx processing

[David Miller]

From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Date: Wed,  1 Jun 2016 01:56:33 -0400

> We don't stop rx polling socket during rx processing, this will lead
> unnecessary wakeups from under layer net devices (E.g
> sock_def_readable() form tun). Rx will be slowed down in this
> way. This patch avoids this by stop polling socket during rx
> processing. A small drawback is that this introduces some overheads in
> light load case because of the extra start/stop polling, but single
> netperf TCP_RR does not notice any change. In a super heavy load case,
> e.g using pktgen to inject packet to guest, we get about ~8.8%
> improvement on pps:
> 
> before: ~1240000 pkt/s
> after:  ~1350000 pkt/s
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

Applied.

Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] vhost_net: conditionally enable tx polling

[Jason Wang]

On 2016年06月07日 20:26, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 01:56:34AM -0400, Jason Wang wrote:
>> We always poll tx for socket, this is sub optimal since:
>>
>> - it will be only used when we exceed the sndbuf of the socket.
>> - since we use two independent polls for tx and vq, this will slightly
>>    increase the waitqueue traversing time and more important, vhost
>>    could not benefit from commit
>>    9e641bdcfa4ef4d6e2fbaa59c1be0ad5d1551fd5 ("net-tun: restructure
>>    tun_do_read for better sleep/wakeup efficiency") even if we've
>>    stopped rx polling during handle_rx since tx poll were still left in
>>    the waitqueue.
>>
>> Fix this by conditionally enable tx polling only when -EAGAIN were
>> met.
>>
>> Test shows about 8% improvement on guest rx pps.
>>
>> Before: ~1350000
>> After:  ~1460000
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/vhost/net.c | 3 +++
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
>> index 1d3e45f..e75ffcc 100644
>> --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
>> +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
>> @@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
>>   		goto out;
>>   
>>   	vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
>> +	vhost_net_disable_vq(net, vq);
>>   
>>   	hdr_size = nvq->vhost_hlen;
>>   	zcopy = nvq->ubufs;
>> @@ -459,6 +460,8 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
>>   					% UIO_MAXIOV;
>>   			}
>>   			vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, 1);
>> +			if (err == -EAGAIN)
>> +				vhost_net_enable_vq(net, vq);
>>   			break;
>>   		}
>>   		if (err != len)
> This seems rather risky. What if TX failed for some other reason?
> Polling won't ever be re-enabled ...
>

But why we need to enable tx poll in this case? Even if we enable it, we 
wont' get any wakeup.

>> -- 
>> 1.8.3.1