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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: "Xie, Huawei" <huawei.xie@intel.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Victor Kaplansky <vkaplans@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/7] vhost: refactor rte_vhost_dequeue_burst
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 10:44:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160307024406.GX14300@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C37D651A908B024F974696C65296B57B4C636CBD@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 02:19:54AM +0000, Xie, Huawei wrote:
> On 3/4/2016 10:19 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 04:21:19PM +0000, Xie, Huawei wrote:
> >> On 2/18/2016 9:48 PM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> >>> The current rte_vhost_dequeue_burst() implementation is a bit messy
> >>> and logic twisted. And you could see repeat code here and there: it
> >>> invokes rte_pktmbuf_alloc() three times at three different places!
> >>>
> >>> However, rte_vhost_dequeue_burst() acutally does a simple job: copy
> >>> the packet data from vring desc to mbuf. What's tricky here is:
> >>>
> >>> - desc buff could be chained (by desc->next field), so that you need
> >>>   fetch next one if current is wholly drained.
> >>>
> >>> - One mbuf could not be big enough to hold all desc buff, hence you
> >>>   need to chain the mbuf as well, by the mbuf->next field.
> >>>
> >>> Even though, the logic could be simple. Here is the pseudo code.
> >>>
> >>> 	while (this_desc_is_not_drained_totally || has_next_desc) {
> >>> 		if (this_desc_has_drained_totally) {
> >>> 			this_desc = next_desc();
> >>> 		}
> >>>
> >>> 		if (mbuf_has_no_room) {
> >>> 			mbuf = allocate_a_new_mbuf();
> >>> 		}
> >>>
> >>> 		COPY(mbuf, desc);
> >>> 	}
> >>>
> >>> And this is how I refactored rte_vhost_dequeue_burst.
> >>>
> >>> Note that the old patch does a special handling for skipping virtio
> >>> header. However, that could be simply done by adjusting desc_avail
> >>> and desc_offset var:
> >>>
> >>> 	desc_avail  = desc->len - vq->vhost_hlen;
> >>> 	desc_offset = vq->vhost_hlen;
> >>>
> >>> This refactor makes the code much more readable (IMO), yet it reduces
> >>> binary code size (nearly 2K).
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> v2: - fix potential NULL dereference bug of var "prev" and "head"
> >>> ---
> >>>  lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c | 297 +++++++++++++++++-------------------------
> >>>  1 file changed, 116 insertions(+), 181 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c
> >>> index 5e7e5b1..d5cd0fa 100644
> >>> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c
> >>> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c
> >>> @@ -702,21 +702,104 @@ vhost_dequeue_offload(struct virtio_net_hdr *hdr, struct rte_mbuf *m)
> >>>  	}
> >>>  }
> >>>  
> >>> +static inline struct rte_mbuf *
> >>> +copy_desc_to_mbuf(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> >>> +		  uint16_t desc_idx, struct rte_mempool *mbuf_pool)
> >>> +{
> >>> +	struct vring_desc *desc;
> >>> +	uint64_t desc_addr;
> >>> +	uint32_t desc_avail, desc_offset;
> >>> +	uint32_t mbuf_avail, mbuf_offset;
> >>> +	uint32_t cpy_len;
> >>> +	struct rte_mbuf *head = NULL;
> >>> +	struct rte_mbuf *cur = NULL, *prev = NULL;
> >>> +	struct virtio_net_hdr *hdr;
> >>> +
> >>> +	desc = &vq->desc[desc_idx];
> >>> +	desc_addr = gpa_to_vva(dev, desc->addr);
> >>> +	rte_prefetch0((void *)(uintptr_t)desc_addr);
> >>> +
> >>> +	/* Retrieve virtio net header */
> >>> +	hdr = (struct virtio_net_hdr *)((uintptr_t)desc_addr);
> >>> +	desc_avail  = desc->len - vq->vhost_hlen;
> >> There is a serious bug here, desc->len - vq->vhost_len could overflow.
> >> VM could easily create this case. Let us fix it here.
> > Nope, this issue has been there since the beginning, and this patch
> > is a refactor: we should not bring any functional changes. Therefore,
> > we should not fix it here.
> 
> No, I don't mean exactly fixing in this patch but in this series.
> 
> Besides, from refactoring's perspective, actually we could make things
> further much simpler and more readable. Both the desc chains and mbuf
> could be converted into iovec, then both dequeue(copy_desc_to_mbuf) and
> enqueue(copy_mbuf_to_desc) could use the commonly used iovec copying
> algorithms As data path are performance oriented, let us stop here.

Agreed, I had same performance concern on further simplication,
therefore I didn't go further.

> >
> > And actually, it's been fixed in the 6th patch in this series:
> 
> Will check that.

Do you have other comments for other patches? I'm considering to send
a new version recently, say maybe tomorrow.

	--yliu

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-07  2:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-03  6:06 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5 for 2.3] vhost rxtx refactor Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-03  6:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] vhost: refactor rte_vhost_dequeue_burst Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-03  7:02   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-03  7:25     ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-03  7:03   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-12  6:55   ` Rich Lane
2015-12-14  1:55     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-01-26 10:30   ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-27  3:26     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-01-27  6:12       ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-27  6:16         ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-03  6:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/5] vhost: refactor virtio_dev_rx Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-11 20:42   ` Rich Lane
2015-12-14  1:47     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-01-21 13:50       ` Jérôme Jutteau
2016-01-27  3:27         ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-03  6:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] vhost: refactor virtio_dev_merge_rx Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-03  6:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/5] vhost: do not use rte_memcpy for virtio_hdr copy Yuanhan Liu
2016-01-27  2:46   ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-27  3:22     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-01-27  5:56       ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-27  6:02         ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-01-27  6:16           ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-27  6:35             ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-03  6:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] vhost: don't use unlikely for VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF detection Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-17 22:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5 for 2.3] vhost rxtx refactor Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-18  4:09   ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-18 13:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] " Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-18 13:49   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/7] vhost: refactor rte_vhost_dequeue_burst Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-03 16:21     ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-04  2:21       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-07  2:19         ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-07  2:44           ` Yuanhan Liu [this message]
2016-03-03 16:30     ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-04  2:17       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-07  2:32         ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-07  2:48           ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-07  2:59             ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-07  6:14               ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-03 17:19     ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-04  2:11       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-07  2:55         ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-03 17:40     ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-04  2:32       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-07  3:02         ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-07  3:03     ` Xie, Huawei
2016-02-18 13:49   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/7] vhost: refactor virtio_dev_rx Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-07  3:34     ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-08 12:27       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-18 13:49   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/7] vhost: refactor virtio_dev_merge_rx Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-07  6:22     ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-07  6:36       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-07  6:38         ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-07  6:51           ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-07  7:03             ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-07  7:16               ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-07  8:20                 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-07  7:52     ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-07  8:38       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-07  9:27         ` Xie, Huawei
2016-02-18 13:49   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/7] vhost: do not use rte_memcpy for virtio_hdr copy Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-07  1:20     ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-07  4:20     ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-03-07  5:24       ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-07  6:21       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-18 13:49   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/7] vhost: don't use unlikely for VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF detection Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-18 13:49   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/7] vhost: do sanity check for desc->len Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-18 13:49   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 7/7] vhost: do sanity check for desc->next Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-07  3:10     ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-07  6:57       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-29 16:06   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] vhost rxtx refactor Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-01  6:01     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-10  4:32   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/8] vhost rxtx refactor and fixes Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-10  4:32     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/8] vhost: refactor rte_vhost_dequeue_burst Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-10  4:32     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/8] vhost: refactor virtio_dev_rx Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-10  4:32     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/8] vhost: refactor virtio_dev_merge_rx Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-11 16:18       ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-14  7:35         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 " Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-10  4:32     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/8] vhost: do not use rte_memcpy for virtio_hdr copy Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-10  4:32     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/8] vhost: don't use unlikely for VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF detection Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-10  4:32     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/8] vhost: do sanity check for desc->len Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-10  4:32     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 7/8] vhost: do sanity check for desc->next against with vq->size Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-10  4:32     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 8/8] vhost: avoid dead loop chain Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-14 23:09     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/8] vhost rxtx refactor and fixes Thomas Monjalon

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