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From: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com>
To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
	"Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
Cc: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"jia.he@hxt-semitech.com" <jia.he@hxt-semitech.com>,
	"jie2.liu@hxt-semitech.com" <jie2.liu@hxt-semitech.com>,
	"bing.zhao@hxt-semitech.com" <bing.zhao@hxt-semitech.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ring: guarantee ordering of cons/prod loading when doing enqueue/dequeue
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 09:02:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3517bf8-95f1-0aa4-fc64-47922c35ce1f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171012172311.GA8524@jerin>

Hi Jerin


On 10/13/2017 1:23 AM, Jerin Jacob Wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:05:50 +0000
>> From: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
>> To: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>, Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com>
>> CC: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, "jia.he@hxt-semitech.com"
>>   <jia.he@hxt-semitech.com>, "jie2.liu@hxt-semitech.com"
>>   <jie2.liu@hxt-semitech.com>, "bing.zhao@hxt-semitech.com"
>>   <bing.zhao@hxt-semitech.com>, "jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com"
>>   <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
>> Subject: RE: [PATCH] ring: guarantee ordering of cons/prod loading when
>>   doing enqueue/dequeue
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Olivier MATZ [mailto:olivier.matz@6wind.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 4:54 PM
>>> To: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; jia.he@hxt-semitech.com; jie2.liu@hxt-semitech.com; bing.zhao@hxt-semitech.com; Ananyev, Konstantin
>>> <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>; jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com
>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ring: guarantee ordering of cons/prod loading when doing enqueue/dequeue
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 05:56:36PM +0800, Jia He wrote:
>>>> Before this patch:
>>>> In __rte_ring_move_cons_head()
>>>> ...
>>>>          do {
>>>>                  /* Restore n as it may change every loop */
>>>>                  n = max;
>>>>
>>>>                  *old_head = r->cons.head;                //1st load
>>>>                  const uint32_t prod_tail = r->prod.tail; //2nd load
>>>>
>>>> In weak memory order architectures(powerpc,arm), the 2nd load might be
>>>> reodered before the 1st load, that makes *entries is bigger than we wanted.
>>>> This nasty reording messed enque/deque up.
>>>>
>>>> cpu1(producer)          cpu2(consumer)          cpu3(consumer)
>>>>                          load r->prod.tail
>>>> in enqueue:
>>>> load r->cons.tail
>>>> load r->prod.head
>>>>
>>>> store r->prod.tail
>>>>
>>>>                                                  load r->cons.head
>>>>                                                  load r->prod.tail
>>>>                                                  ...
>>>>                                                  store r->cons.{head,tail}
>>>>                          load r->cons.head
>>>>
>>>> THEN,r->cons.head will be bigger than prod_tail, then make *entries very big
>>>>
>>>> After this patch, the old cons.head will be recaculated after failure of
>>>> rte_atomic32_cmpset
>>>>
>>>> There is no such issue in X86 cpu, because X86 is strong memory order model
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: jia.he@hxt-semitech.com
>>>> Signed-off-by: jie2.liu@hxt-semitech.com
>>>> Signed-off-by: bing.zhao@hxt-semitech.com
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>   lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.h | 8 ++++++++
>>>>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.h b/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.h
>>>> index 5e9b3b7..15c72e2 100644
>>>> --- a/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.h
>>>> +++ b/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.h
>>>> @@ -409,6 +409,10 @@ __rte_ring_move_prod_head(struct rte_ring *r, int is_sp,
>>>>   		n = max;
>>>>
>>>>   		*old_head = r->prod.head;
>>>> +
>>>> +		/* load of prod.tail can't be reordered before cons.head */
>>>> +		rte_smp_rmb();
>>>> +
>>>>   		const uint32_t cons_tail = r->cons.tail;
>>>>   		/*
>>>>   		 *  The subtraction is done between two unsigned 32bits value
>>>> @@ -517,6 +521,10 @@ __rte_ring_move_cons_head(struct rte_ring *r, int is_sc,
>>>>   		n = max;
>>>>
>>>>   		*old_head = r->cons.head;
>>>> +
>>>> +		/* load of prod.tail can't be reordered before cons.head */
>>>> +		rte_smp_rmb();
>>>> +
>>>>   		const uint32_t prod_tail = r->prod.tail;
>>>>   		/* The subtraction is done between two unsigned 32bits value
>>>>   		 * (the result is always modulo 32 bits even if we have
>>>> --
>>>> 2.7.4
>>>>
>>> The explanation convinces me.
>>>
>>> However, since it's in a critical path, it would be good to have other
>>> opinions. This patch reminds me this discussion, that was also related to
>>> memory barrier, but at another place:
>>> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/043765.html
>>> Lead to that patch: http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=ecc7d10e448e
>>> But finally reverted: http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=c3acd92746c3
>>>
>>> Konstatin, Jerin, do you have any comment?
>> For IA, as rte_smp_rmb() is just a compiler_barrier, that patch shouldn't make any difference,
>> but  I can't see how read reordering would screw things up here...
>> Probably just me and arm or ppc guys could explain what will be the problem
>> if let say cons.tail will be read before prod.head in __rte_ring_move_prod_head().
>> I wonder Is there a simple test-case to reproduce that problem (on arm or ppc)?
>> Probably new test-case for rte_ring autotest is needed, or is it possible to reproduce
>> it with existing one?
> On the same lines,
>
> Jia He, jie2.liu, bing.zhao,
>
> Is this patch based on code review or do you saw this issue on any of the
> arm/ppc target? arm64 will have performance impact with this change.
Based on mbuf_autotest, the rte_panic will be invoked in seconds.

PANIC in test_refcnt_iter():
(lcore=0, iter=0): after 10s only 61 of 64 mbufs left free
1: [./test(rte_dump_stack+0x38) [0x58d868]]
Aborted (core dumped)

Cheers,
Jia
>
>
>> Konstantin

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-13  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-10  9:56 Jia He
2017-10-12 15:53 ` Olivier MATZ
2017-10-12 16:15   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-10-12 17:05   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-10-12 17:23     ` Jerin Jacob
2017-10-13  1:02       ` Jia He [this message]
2017-10-13  1:15         ` Jia He
2017-10-13  1:16         ` Jia He
2017-10-13  1:49           ` Jerin Jacob
2017-10-13  3:23             ` Jia He
2017-10-13  5:57               ` Zhao, Bing
2017-10-13  7:33             ` Jianbo Liu
2017-10-13  8:20               ` Jia He
2017-10-19 10:02           ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-10-19 11:18             ` Zhao, Bing
2017-10-19 14:15               ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-10-19 20:02                 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-10-20  1:57                   ` Jia He
2017-10-20  5:43                     ` Jerin Jacob
2017-10-23  8:49                       ` Jia He
2017-10-23  9:05                         ` Kuusisaari, Juhamatti
2017-10-23  9:10                           ` Bruce Richardson
2017-10-23 10:06                         ` Jerin Jacob
2017-10-24  2:04                           ` Jia He
2017-10-25 13:26                             ` Jerin Jacob
2017-10-26  2:27                               ` Jia He
2017-10-31  2:55                               ` Jia He
2017-10-31 11:14                                 ` Jerin Jacob
2017-11-01  2:53                                   ` Jia He
2017-11-01 19:04                                     ` Jerin Jacob
2017-11-02  1:09                                       ` Jia He
2017-11-02  8:57                                       ` Jia He
2017-11-03  2:55                                         ` Jia He
2017-11-03 12:47                                           ` Jerin Jacob
2017-11-01  4:48                                   ` Jia He
2017-11-01 19:10                                     ` Jerin Jacob
2017-10-20  7:03                     ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-10-13  0:24     ` Liu, Jie2
2017-10-13  2:12       ` Zhao, Bing
2017-10-13  2:34         ` Jerin Jacob
2017-10-16 10:51       ` Kuusisaari, Juhamatti

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