[RFC PATCH 4/4] virtio-net: sleep instead of busy waiting for cvq command

From: Jason Wang
Date: Thu Dec 22 2022 - 01:06:40 EST


We used to busy waiting on the cvq command this tends to be
problematic since:

1) CPU could wait for ever on a buggy/malicous device
2) There's no wait to terminate the process that triggers the cvq
command

So this patch switch to use sleep with a timeout (1s) instead of busy
polling for the cvq command forever. This gives the scheduler a breath
and can let the process can respond to a signal.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 8225496ccb1e..69173049371f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ static void disable_rx_mode_work(struct virtnet_info *vi)
vi->rx_mode_work_enabled = false;
spin_unlock_bh(&vi->rx_mode_lock);

+ virtqueue_wake_up(vi->cvq);
flush_work(&vi->rx_mode_work);
}

@@ -1497,6 +1498,11 @@ static bool try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi, struct receive_queue *rq,
return !oom;
}

+static void virtnet_cvq_done(struct virtqueue *cvq)
+{
+ virtqueue_wake_up(cvq);
+}
+
static void skb_recv_done(struct virtqueue *rvq)
{
struct virtnet_info *vi = rvq->vdev->priv;
@@ -2024,12 +2030,7 @@ static bool virtnet_send_command(struct virtnet_info *vi, u8 class, u8 cmd,
if (unlikely(!virtqueue_kick(vi->cvq)))
return vi->ctrl->status == VIRTIO_NET_OK;

- /* Spin for a response, the kick causes an ioport write, trapping
- * into the hypervisor, so the request should be handled immediately.
- */
- while (!virtqueue_get_buf(vi->cvq, &tmp) &&
- !virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq))
- cpu_relax();
+ virtqueue_wait_for_used(vi->cvq, &tmp);

return vi->ctrl->status == VIRTIO_NET_OK;
}
@@ -3524,7 +3525,7 @@ static int virtnet_find_vqs(struct virtnet_info *vi)

/* Parameters for control virtqueue, if any */
if (vi->has_cvq) {
- callbacks[total_vqs - 1] = NULL;
+ callbacks[total_vqs - 1] = virtnet_cvq_done;
names[total_vqs - 1] = "control";
}

--
2.25.1