[PATCH net-next V2 2/2] virtio-net: sleep instead of busy waiting for cvq command

From: Jason Wang
Date: Thu Apr 13 2023 - 02:41:48 EST


We used to busy waiting on the cvq command this tends to be
problematic since there no way for to schedule another process which
may serve for the control virtqueue. This might be the case when the
control virtqueue is emulated by software. This patch switches to use
completion to allow the CPU to sleep instead of busy waiting for the
cvq command.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes since V1:
- use completion for simplicity
- don't try to harden the CVQ command which requires more thought
Changes since RFC:
- break the device when timeout
- get buffer manually since the virtio core check more_used() instead
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 2e56bbf86894..d3eb8fd6c9dc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/average.h>
#include <linux/filter.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/completion.h>
#include <net/route.h>
#include <net/xdp.h>
#include <net/net_failover.h>
@@ -295,6 +296,8 @@ struct virtnet_info {

/* failover when STANDBY feature enabled */
struct failover *failover;
+
+ struct completion completion;
};

struct padded_vnet_hdr {
@@ -1709,6 +1712,13 @@ static bool try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi, struct receive_queue *rq,
return !oom;
}

+static void virtnet_cvq_done(struct virtqueue *cvq)
+{
+ struct virtnet_info *vi = cvq->vdev->priv;
+
+ complete(&vi->completion);
+}
+
static void skb_recv_done(struct virtqueue *rvq)
{
struct virtnet_info *vi = rvq->vdev->priv;
@@ -2169,12 +2179,8 @@ 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();
+ wait_for_completion(&vi->completion);
+ virtqueue_get_buf(vi->cvq, &tmp);

return vi->ctrl->status == VIRTIO_NET_OK;
}
@@ -3672,7 +3678,7 @@ 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";
}

@@ -4122,6 +4128,7 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
if (vi->has_rss || vi->has_rss_hash_report)
virtnet_init_default_rss(vi);

+ init_completion(&vi->completion);
enable_rx_mode_work(vi);

/* serialize netdev register + virtio_device_ready() with ndo_open() */
--
2.25.1