From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC7C201; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:10:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E3F464450; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:10:09 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com 2E3F464450 Authentication-Results: ext-mx10.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx10.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=ktraynor@redhat.com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mx1.redhat.com 2E3F464450 Received: from ktraynor.remote.csb (ovpn-117-119.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.117.119]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AEA5183AA; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:10:06 +0000 (UTC) To: Yuanhan Liu References: <1489605049-18686-1-git-send-email-ktraynor@redhat.com> <20170316062122.GN18844@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> Cc: maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org From: Kevin Traynor Organization: Red Hat Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:10:05 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170316062122.GN18844@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.15 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.39]); Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:10:09 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] vhost: fix virtio_net cache sharing of broadcast_rarp X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:10:09 -0000 On 03/16/2017 06:21 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 07:10:49PM +0000, Kevin Traynor wrote: >> The virtio_net structure is used in both enqueue and dequeue datapaths. >> broadcast_rarp is checked with cmpset in the dequeue datapath regardless >> of whether descriptors are available or not. >> >> It is observed in some cases where dequeue and enqueue are performed by >> different cores and no packets are available on the dequeue datapath >> (i.e. uni-directional traffic), the frequent checking of broadcast_rarp >> in dequeue causes performance degradation for the enqueue datapath. >> >> In OVS the issue can cause a uni-directional performance drop of up to 15%. >> >> Fix that by moving broadcast_rarp to a different cache line in >> virtio_net struct. > > Thanks, but I'm a bit confused. The drop looks like being caused by > cache false sharing, but I don't see anything would lead to a false > sharing. I mean, there is no write in the same cache line where the > broadcast_rarp belongs. Or, the "volatile" type is the culprit here? > Yes, the cmpset code uses cmpxchg and that performs a write regardless of the result - it either writes the new value or back the old value. > Talking about that, I had actually considered to turn "broadcast_rarp" > to a simple "int" or "uint16_t" type, to make it more light weight. > The reason I used atomic type is to exactly send one broadcast RARP > packet once SEND_RARP request is recieved. Otherwise, we may send more > than one RARP packet when MQ is invovled. But I think we don't have > to be that accurate: it's tolerable when more RARP are sent. I saw 4 > SEND_RARP requests (aka 4 RARP packets) in the last time I tried > vhost-user live migration after all. I don't quite remember why > it was 4 though. > > That said, I think it also would resolve the performance issue if you > change "rte_atomic16_t" to "uint16_t", without moving the place? > Yes, that should work fine, with the side effect you mentioned of possibly some more rarps - no big deal. I tested another solution also - as it is unlikely we would need to send the broadcast_rarp, you can first read and only do the cmpset if it is likely to succeed. This resolved the issue too. --- a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c @@ -1057,7 +1057,8 @@ static inline bool __attribute__((always_inline)) * * Check user_send_rarp() for more information. */ - if (unlikely(rte_atomic16_cmpset((volatile uint16_t *) + if (unlikely(rte_atomic16_read(&dev->broadcast_rarp) && + rte_atomic16_cmpset((volatile uint16_t *) &dev->broadcast_rarp.cnt, 1, 0))) { rarp_mbuf = rte_pktmbuf_alloc(mbuf_pool); if (rarp_mbuf == NULL) { I choose changing the struct because the 'read && cmpset' code is non-obvious and someone might not think to do that in the future. I did a PVP test with testpmd and didn't see any degradation with the struct change, so I thought it can be a good solution. I tested the struct change with several combinations of DPDK 16.11.1/17.02/master combined with OVS 2.6/2.7/master. If you prefer one of the other solutions, let me know and I'll perform some additional testing. Kevin. > --yliu >