From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Xianting Tian <xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: virtio_net: BQL?
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 10:53:08 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3a9b036-14d1-2f4f-52e6-f0aa1b187003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw7Vr_pFMsPCrPadqaLGu0BdC-wtCmW2iyHFkHERkaiyWQ@mail.gmail.com>
在 2021/5/18 上午5:48, Dave Taht 写道:
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 1:23 PM Willem de Bruijn
> <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 2:44 PM Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Not really related to this patch, but is there some reason why virtio
>>> has no support for BQL?
>> There have been a few attempts to add it over the years.
>>
>> Most recently, https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181205225323.12555-2-mst@redhat.com/
>>
>> That thread has a long discussion. I think the key open issue remains
>>
>> "The tricky part is the mode switching between napi and no napi."
> Oy, vey.
>
> I didn't pay any attention to that discussion, sadly enough.
>
> It's been about that long (2018) since I paid any attention to
> bufferbloat in the cloud and my cloudy provider (linode) switched to
> using virtio when I wasn't looking. For over a year now, I'd been
> getting reports saying that comcast's pie rollout wasn't working as
> well as expected, that evenroute's implementation of sch_cake and sqm
> on inbound wasn't working right, nor pf_sense's and numerous other
> issues at Internet scale.
>
> Last week I ran a string of benchmarks against starlink's new services
> and was really aghast at what I found there, too. but the problem
> seemed deeper than in just the dishy...
>
> Without BQL, there's no backpressure for fq_codel to do its thing.
> None. My measurement servers aren't FQ-codeling
> no matter how much load I put on them. Since that qdisc is the default
> now in most linux distributions, I imagine that the bulk of the cloud
> is now behaving as erratically as linux was in 2011 with enormous
> swings in throughput and latency from GSO/TSO hitting overlarge rx/tx
> rings, [1], breaking various rate estimators in codel, pie and the tcp
> stack itself.
>
> See:
>
> http://fremont.starlink.taht.net/~d/virtio_nobql/rrul_-_evenroute_v3_server_fq_codel.png
>
> See the swings in latency there? that's symptomatic of tx/rx rings
> filling and emptying.
>
> it wasn't until I switched my measurement server temporarily over to
> sch_fq that I got a rrul result that was close to the results we used
> to get from the virtualized e1000e drivers we were using in 2014.
>
> http://fremont.starlink.taht.net/~d/virtio_nobql/rrul_-_evenroute_v3_server_fq.png
>
> While I have long supported the use of sch_fq for tcp-heavy workloads,
> it still behaves better with bql in place, and fq_codel is better for
> generic workloads... but needs bql based backpressure to kick in.
>
> [1] I really hope I'm overreacting but, um, er, could someone(s) spin
> up a new patch that does bql in some way even half right for this
> driver and help test it? I haven't built a kernel in a while.
I think it's time to obsolete skb_orphan() for virtio-net to get rid of
a brunch of tricky codes in the current virtio-net driver.
Then we can do BQL on top.
I will prepare some patches to do this (probably with Michael's BQL patch).
Thanks
>
>
>>> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:41 AM Xianting Tian
>>> <xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>>>> BUG_ON() uses unlikely in if(), which can be optimized at compile time.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 5 ++---
>>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>>>> index c921ebf3ae82..212d52204884 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>>>> @@ -1646,10 +1646,9 @@ static int xmit_skb(struct send_queue *sq, struct
>>>> sk_buff *skb)
>>>> else
>>>> hdr = skb_vnet_hdr(skb);
>>>>
>>>> - if (virtio_net_hdr_from_skb(skb, &hdr->hdr,
>>>> + BUG_ON(virtio_net_hdr_from_skb(skb, &hdr->hdr,
>>>> virtio_is_little_endian(vi->vdev), false,
>>>> - 0))
>>>> - BUG();
>>>> + 0));
>>>>
>>>> if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs)
>>>> hdr->num_buffers = 0;
>>>> --
>>>> 2.17.1
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>
>
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>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-24 2:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-17 13:31 [PATCH] virtio_net: Use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG Xianting Tian
2021-05-17 14:35 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-05-18 9:20 ` Xianting Tian
2021-05-17 18:43 ` virtio_net: BQL? Dave Taht
2021-05-17 20:23 ` Willem de Bruijn
2021-05-17 21:48 ` Dave Taht
2021-05-17 23:00 ` [Bloat] " Stephen Hemminger
2021-05-17 23:32 ` Dave Taht
2021-05-18 2:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-05-19 14:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2021-05-19 22:53 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-05-24 2:53 ` Jason Wang [this message]
2021-05-24 9:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-05-19 8:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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