Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4 1/7] vhost: fix missing memory table NUMA realloc

["Xia, Chenbo" <chenbo.xia@intel.com>]

Hi Maxime,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 11:38 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org; david.marchand@redhat.com; Xia, Chenbo <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH v4 1/7] vhost: fix missing memory table NUMA realloc
> 
> When the guest allocates virtqueues on a different NUMA node
> than the one the Vhost metadata are allocated, both the Vhost
> device struct and the virtqueues struct are reallocated.
> 
> However, reallocating the Vhost memory table was missing, which
> likely causes iat least one cross-NUMA accesses for every burst
> of packets.

'at least' ?

> 
> This patch reallocates this table on the same NUMA node as the
> other metadata.
> 
> Fixes: 552e8fd3d2b4 ("vhost: simplify memory regions handling")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Reported-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> ---
>  lib/vhost/vhost_user.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c b/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c
> index 8f0eba6412..031e3bfa2f 100644
> --- a/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c
> +++ b/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c
> @@ -557,6 +557,9 @@ numa_realloc(struct virtio_net *dev, int index)

As we are realloc more things now, the comment above 'numa_realloc(XXX)'
should also be changed like:

Reallocate related data structure to make them on the same numa node as
the memory of vring descriptor.

Thanks,
Chenbo

>  		goto out;
>  	}
>  	if (oldnode != newnode) {
> +		struct rte_vhost_memory *old_mem;
> +		ssize_t mem_size;
> +
>  		VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(INFO,
>  			"reallocate dev from %d to %d node\n",
>  			oldnode, newnode);
> @@ -568,6 +571,18 @@ numa_realloc(struct virtio_net *dev, int index)
> 
>  		memcpy(dev, old_dev, sizeof(*dev));
>  		rte_free(old_dev);
> +
> +		mem_size = sizeof(struct rte_vhost_memory) +
> +			sizeof(struct rte_vhost_mem_region) * dev->mem->nregions;
> +		old_mem = dev->mem;
> +		dev->mem = rte_malloc_socket(NULL, mem_size, 0, newnode);
> +		if (!dev->mem) {
> +			dev->mem = old_mem;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
> +
> +		memcpy(dev->mem, old_mem, mem_size);
> +		rte_free(old_mem);
>  	}
> 
>  out:
> --
> 2.31.1