Re: [PATCH 1/2] vdpa: mlx5: prevent cvq work from hogging CPU

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 02:04:19PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 10:34:09 +0800 Jason Wang wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 8:54 AM Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:59:14 +0800 Jason Wang wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Yes, there will be no "infinite" loop, but since the loop is triggered
> > > > by userspace. It looks to me it will delay the flush/drain of the
> > > > workqueue forever which is still suboptimal.
> > >
> > > Usually it is barely possible to shoot two birds using a stone.
> > >
> > > Given the "forever", I am inclined to not running faster, hehe, though
> > > another cobble is to add another line in the loop checking if mvdev is
> > > unregistered, and for example make mvdev->cvq unready before destroying
> > > workqueue.
> > >
> > > static void mlx5_vdpa_dev_del(struct vdpa_mgmt_dev *v_mdev, struct vdpa_device *dev)
> > > {
> > >         struct mlx5_vdpa_mgmtdev *mgtdev = container_of(v_mdev, struct mlx5_vdpa_mgmtdev, mgtdev);
> > >         struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev = to_mvdev(dev);
> > >         struct mlx5_vdpa_net *ndev = to_mlx5_vdpa_ndev(mvdev);
> > >
> > >         mlx5_notifier_unregister(mvdev->mdev, &ndev->nb);
> > >         destroy_workqueue(mvdev->wq);
> > >         _vdpa_unregister_device(dev);
> > >         mgtdev->ndev = NULL;
> > > }
> > >
> > 
> > Yes, so we had
> > 
> > 1) using a quota for re-requeue
> > 2) using something like
> > 
> > while (READ_ONCE(cvq->ready)) {
> >         ...
> >         cond_resched();
> > }
> > 
> > There should not be too much difference except we need to use
> > cancel_work_sync() instead of flush_work for 1).
> > 
> > I would keep the code as is but if you stick I can change.
> 
> No Sir I would not - I am simply not a fan of work requeue.
> 
> Hillf

I think I agree - requeue adds latency spikes under heavy load -
unfortunately, not measured by netperf but still important
for latency sensitive workloads. Checking a flag is cheaper.

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MST