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From: "Hu, Jiayu" <jiayu.hu@intel.com>
To: "Bie, Tiwei" <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"maxime.coquelin@redhat.com" <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
	"stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] vhost: fix interrupt suppression for the split ring
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 05:38:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ED946F0BEFE0A141B63BABBD629A2A9B3CF5D471@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190225070654.GA22485@dpdk-tbie.sh.intel.com>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bie, Tiwei
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 3:07 PM
> To: Hu, Jiayu <jiayu.hu@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] vhost: fix interrupt suppression for the split ring
> 
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 04:13:50PM +0800, Jiayu Hu wrote:
> > The VIRTIO_RING_F_EVENT_IDX feature of split ring might
> > be broken, as the value of signalled_used is unpredictable
> > after live migration or start up. This patch fixes it by
> > using signalled_used_valid.
> 
> Seems you also need to invalidate the signalled_used in e.g.
> set_vring_base, as signalled_used may not match last_used_idx
> anymore e.g. when guest driver is reloaded.

To handle the virtio device reload case, how about setting
signalled_used_valid to false in get_vring_base()?

Thanks,
Jiayu

> 
> >
> > In addition, this patch makes the VIRTIO_RING_F_EVENT_IDX
> > implementation of split ring match kernel backend to suppress
> > more interrupts.
> >
> > Fixes: e37ff954405a ("vhost: support virtqueue interrupt/notification
> suppression")
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jiayu Hu <jiayu.hu@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h | 12 ++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h
> > index fc31796..c4e5e34 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h
> > +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h
> > @@ -633,16 +633,20 @@ vhost_vring_call_split(struct virtio_net *dev,
> struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
> >  	if (dev->features & (1ULL << VIRTIO_RING_F_EVENT_IDX)) {
> >  		uint16_t old = vq->signalled_used;
> >  		uint16_t new = vq->last_used_idx;
> > +		bool signalled_used_valid = vq->signalled_used_valid;
> > +
> > +		vq->signalled_used = new;
> > +		vq->signalled_used_valid = true;
> >
> >  		VHOST_LOG_DEBUG(VHOST_DATA, "%s:
> used_event_idx=%d, old=%d, new=%d\n",
> >  			__func__,
> >  			vhost_used_event(vq),
> >  			old, new);
> > -		if (vhost_need_event(vhost_used_event(vq), new, old)
> > -			&& (vq->callfd >= 0)) {
> > -			vq->signalled_used = vq->last_used_idx;
> > +
> > +		if ((vhost_need_event(vhost_used_event(vq), new, old) &&
> > +					(vq->callfd >= 0)) ||
> > +				unlikely(!signalled_used_valid))
> >  			eventfd_write(vq->callfd, (eventfd_t) 1);
> > -		}
> >  	} else {
> >  		/* Kick the guest if necessary. */
> >  		if (!(vq->avail->flags & VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT)
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-27  5:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-22  8:13 Jiayu Hu
2019-02-25  7:06 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-02-27  5:38   ` Hu, Jiayu [this message]
2019-02-27 10:55     ` Tiwei Bie
2019-03-17  6:38 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] " Jiayu Hu
2019-03-20  0:45   ` Wang, Yinan
2019-03-20  4:56   ` Tiwei Bie
2019-03-20  7:36   ` Maxime Coquelin

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