Linux Virtualization - May 2021 - [PATCH v3 0/4] virtio net: spurious interrupt related fixes

With the implementation of napi-tx in virtio driver, we clean tx
descriptors from rx napi handler, for the purpose of reducing tx
complete interrupts. But this introduces a race where tx complete
interrupt has been raised, but the handler finds there is no work to do
because we have done the work in the previous rx interrupt handler.
A similar issue exists with polling from start_xmit, it is however
less common because of the delayed cb optimization of the split ring -
but will likely affect the packed ring once that is more common.

In particular, this was reported to lead to the following warning msg:
[ 3588.010778] irq 38: nobody cared (try booting with the
"irqpoll" option)
[ 3588.017938] CPU: 4 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/4 Not tainted
5.3.0-19-generic #20~18.04.2-Ubuntu
[ 3588.017940] Call Trace:
[ 3588.017942]  <IRQ>
[ 3588.017951]  dump_stack+0x63/0x85
[ 3588.017953]  __report_bad_irq+0x35/0xc0
[ 3588.017955]  note_interrupt+0x24b/0x2a0
[ 3588.017956]  handle_irq_event_percpu+0x54/0x80
[ 3588.017957]  handle_irq_event+0x3b/0x60
[ 3588.017958]  handle_edge_irq+0x83/0x1a0
[ 3588.017961]  handle_irq+0x20/0x30
[ 3588.017964]  do_IRQ+0x50/0xe0
[ 3588.017966]  common_interrupt+0xf/0xf
[ 3588.017966]  </IRQ>
[ 3588.017989] handlers:
[ 3588.020374] [<000000001b9f1da8>] vring_interrupt
[ 3588.025099] Disabling IRQ #38

This patchset attempts to fix this by cleaning up a bunch of races
related to the handling of sq callbacks (aka tx interrupts).
Somewhat tested but I couldn't reproduce the original issues
reported, sending out for help with testing.

Wei, does this address the spurious interrupt issue you are
observing? Could you confirm please?

Thanks!

changes from v2:
	Fixed a race condition in start_xmit: enable_cb_delayed was
	done as an optimization (to push out event index for
	split ring) so we did not have to care about it
	returning false (recheck). Now that we actually disable the cb
	we have to do test the return value and do the actual recheck.


Michael S. Tsirkin (4):
  virtio_net: move tx vq operation under tx queue lock
  virtio_net: move txq wakeups under tx q lock
  virtio: fix up virtio_disable_cb
  virtio_net: disable cb aggressively

 drivers/net/virtio_net.c     | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

-- 
MST

It's unsafe to operate a vq from multiple threads.
Unfortunately this is exactly what we do when invoking
clean tx poll from rx napi.
Same happens with napi-tx even without the
opportunistic cleaning from the receive interrupt: that races
with processing the vq in start_xmit.

As a fix move everything that deals with the vq to under tx lock.

Fixes: b92f1e6751a6 ("virtio-net: transmit napi")
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index ac0c143f97b4..12512d1002ec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1508,6 +1508,8 @@ static int virtnet_poll_tx(struct napi_struct *napi, int
budget)
 	struct virtnet_info *vi = sq->vq->vdev->priv;
 	unsigned int index = vq2txq(sq->vq);
 	struct netdev_queue *txq;
+	int opaque;
+	bool done;
 
 	if (unlikely(is_xdp_raw_buffer_queue(vi, index))) {
 		/* We don't need to enable cb for XDP */
@@ -1517,10 +1519,28 @@ static int virtnet_poll_tx(struct napi_struct *napi, int
budget)
 
 	txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(vi->dev, index);
 	__netif_tx_lock(txq, raw_smp_processor_id());
+	virtqueue_disable_cb(sq->vq);
 	free_old_xmit_skbs(sq, true);
+
+	opaque = virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare(sq->vq);
+
+	done = napi_complete_done(napi, 0);
+
+	if (!done)
+		virtqueue_disable_cb(sq->vq);
+
 	__netif_tx_unlock(txq);
 
-	virtqueue_napi_complete(napi, sq->vq, 0);
+	if (done) {
+		if (unlikely(virtqueue_poll(sq->vq, opaque))) {
+			if (napi_schedule_prep(napi)) {
+				__netif_tx_lock(txq, raw_smp_processor_id());
+				virtqueue_disable_cb(sq->vq);
+				__netif_tx_unlock(txq);
+				__napi_schedule(napi);
+			}
+		}
+	}
 
 	if (sq->vq->num_free >= 2 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
 		netif_tx_wake_queue(txq);
-- 
MST

We currently check num_free outside tx q lock
which is unsafe: new packets can arrive meanwhile
and there won't be space in the queue.
Thus a spurious queue wakeup causing overhead
and even packet drops.

Move the check under the lock to fix that.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 12512d1002ec..c29f42d1e04f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1434,11 +1434,12 @@ static void virtnet_poll_cleantx(struct receive_queue
*rq)
 
 	if (__netif_tx_trylock(txq)) {
 		free_old_xmit_skbs(sq, true);
+
+		if (sq->vq->num_free >= 2 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
+			netif_tx_wake_queue(txq);
+
 		__netif_tx_unlock(txq);
 	}
-
-	if (sq->vq->num_free >= 2 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
-		netif_tx_wake_queue(txq);
 }
 
 static int virtnet_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
@@ -1522,6 +1523,9 @@ static int virtnet_poll_tx(struct napi_struct *napi, int
budget)
 	virtqueue_disable_cb(sq->vq);
 	free_old_xmit_skbs(sq, true);
 
+	if (sq->vq->num_free >= 2 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
+		netif_tx_wake_queue(txq);
+
 	opaque = virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare(sq->vq);
 
 	done = napi_complete_done(napi, 0);
@@ -1542,9 +1546,6 @@ static int virtnet_poll_tx(struct napi_struct *napi, int
budget)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (sq->vq->num_free >= 2 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
-		netif_tx_wake_queue(txq);
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
MST

virtio_disable_cb is currently a nop for split ring with event index.
This is because it used to be always called from a callback when we know
device won't trigger more events until we update the index.  However,
now that we run with interrupts enabled a lot we also poll without a
callback so that is different: disabling callbacks will help reduce the
number of spurious interrupts.
Further, if using event index with a packed ring, and if being called
from a callback, we actually do disable interrupts which is unnecessary.

Fix both issues by tracking whenever we get a callback. If that is
the case disabling interrupts with event index can be a nop.
If not the case disable interrupts. Note: with a split ring
there's no explicit "no interrupts" value. For now we write
a fixed value so our chance of triggering an interupt
is 1/ring size. It's probably better to write something
related to the last used index there to reduce the chance
even further. For now I'm keeping it simple.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 71e16b53e9c1..88f0b16b11b8 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ struct vring_virtqueue {
 	/* Last used index we've seen. */
 	u16 last_used_idx;
 
+	/* Hint for event idx: already triggered no need to disable. */
+	bool event_triggered;
+
 	union {
 		/* Available for split ring */
 		struct {
@@ -739,7 +742,10 @@ static void virtqueue_disable_cb_split(struct virtqueue
*_vq)
 
 	if (!(vq->split.avail_flags_shadow & VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT)) {
 		vq->split.avail_flags_shadow |= VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT;
-		if (!vq->event)
+		if (vq->event)
+			/* TODO: this is a hack. Figure out a cleaner value to write. */
+			vring_used_event(&vq->split.vring) = 0x0;
+		else
 			vq->split.vring.avail->flags  				cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev,
 						vq->split.avail_flags_shadow);
@@ -1605,6 +1611,7 @@ static struct virtqueue *vring_create_virtqueue_packed(
 	vq->weak_barriers = weak_barriers;
 	vq->broken = false;
 	vq->last_used_idx = 0;
+	vq->event_triggered = false;
 	vq->num_added = 0;
 	vq->packed_ring = true;
 	vq->use_dma_api = vring_use_dma_api(vdev);
@@ -1919,6 +1926,12 @@ void virtqueue_disable_cb(struct virtqueue *_vq)
 {
 	struct vring_virtqueue *vq = to_vvq(_vq);
 
+	/* If device triggered an event already it won't trigger one again:
+	 * no need to disable.
+	 */
+	if (vq->event_triggered)
+		return;
+
 	if (vq->packed_ring)
 		virtqueue_disable_cb_packed(_vq);
 	else
@@ -1942,6 +1955,9 @@ unsigned virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare(struct virtqueue
*_vq)
 {
 	struct vring_virtqueue *vq = to_vvq(_vq);
 
+	if (vq->event_triggered)
+		vq->event_triggered = false;
+
 	return vq->packed_ring ? virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare_packed(_vq) :
 				 virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare_split(_vq);
 }
@@ -2005,6 +2021,9 @@ bool virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed(struct virtqueue *_vq)
 {
 	struct vring_virtqueue *vq = to_vvq(_vq);
 
+	if (vq->event_triggered)
+		vq->event_triggered = false;
+
 	return vq->packed_ring ? virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed_packed(_vq) :
 				 virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed_split(_vq);
 }
@@ -2044,6 +2063,10 @@ irqreturn_t vring_interrupt(int irq, void *_vq)
 	if (unlikely(vq->broken))
 		return IRQ_HANDLED;
 
+	/* Just a hint for performance: so it's ok that this can be racy! */
+	if (vq->event)
+		vq->event_triggered = true;
+
 	pr_debug("virtqueue callback for %p (%p)\n", vq,
vq->vq.callback);
 	if (vq->vq.callback)
 		vq->vq.callback(&vq->vq);
@@ -2083,6 +2106,7 @@ struct virtqueue *__vring_new_virtqueue(unsigned int
index,
 	vq->weak_barriers = weak_barriers;
 	vq->broken = false;
 	vq->last_used_idx = 0;
+	vq->event_triggered = false;
 	vq->num_added = 0;
 	vq->use_dma_api = vring_use_dma_api(vdev);
 #ifdef DEBUG
-- 
MST

There are currently two cases where we poll TX vq not in response to a
callback: start xmit and rx napi.  We currently do this with callbacks
enabled which can cause extra interrupts from the card.  Used not to be
a big issue as we run with interrupts disabled but that is no longer the
case, and in some cases the rate of spurious interrupts is so high
linux detects this and actually kills the interrupt.

Fix up by disabling the callbacks before polling the tx vq.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index c29f42d1e04f..a83dc038d8af 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1433,7 +1433,10 @@ static void virtnet_poll_cleantx(struct receive_queue
*rq)
 		return;
 
 	if (__netif_tx_trylock(txq)) {
-		free_old_xmit_skbs(sq, true);
+		do {
+			virtqueue_disable_cb(sq->vq);
+			free_old_xmit_skbs(sq, true);
+		} while (unlikely(!virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed(sq->vq)));
 
 		if (sq->vq->num_free >= 2 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
 			netif_tx_wake_queue(txq);
@@ -1605,12 +1608,17 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct net_device *dev)
 	struct netdev_queue *txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, qnum);
 	bool kick = !netdev_xmit_more();
 	bool use_napi = sq->napi.weight;
+	unsigned int bytes = skb->len;
 
 	/* Free up any pending old buffers before queueing new ones. */
-	free_old_xmit_skbs(sq, false);
+	do {
+		if (use_napi)
+			virtqueue_disable_cb(sq->vq);
 
-	if (use_napi && kick)
-		virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed(sq->vq);
+		free_old_xmit_skbs(sq, false);
+
+	} while (use_napi && kick &&
+	       unlikely(!virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed(sq->vq)));
 
 	/* timestamp packet in software */
 	skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
-- 
MST

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 4:24 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
wrote:
>
>
> With the implementation of napi-tx in virtio driver, we clean tx
> descriptors from rx napi handler, for the purpose of reducing tx
> complete interrupts. But this introduces a race where tx complete
> interrupt has been raised, but the handler finds there is no work to do
> because we have done the work in the previous rx interrupt handler.
> A similar issue exists with polling from start_xmit, it is however
> less common because of the delayed cb optimization of the split ring -
> but will likely affect the packed ring once that is more common.
>
> In particular, this was reported to lead to the following warning msg:
> [ 3588.010778] irq 38: nobody cared (try booting with the
> "irqpoll" option)
> [ 3588.017938] CPU: 4 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/4 Not tainted
> 5.3.0-19-generic #20~18.04.2-Ubuntu
> [ 3588.017940] Call Trace:
> [ 3588.017942]  <IRQ>
> [ 3588.017951]  dump_stack+0x63/0x85
> [ 3588.017953]  __report_bad_irq+0x35/0xc0
> [ 3588.017955]  note_interrupt+0x24b/0x2a0
> [ 3588.017956]  handle_irq_event_percpu+0x54/0x80
> [ 3588.017957]  handle_irq_event+0x3b/0x60
> [ 3588.017958]  handle_edge_irq+0x83/0x1a0
> [ 3588.017961]  handle_irq+0x20/0x30
> [ 3588.017964]  do_IRQ+0x50/0xe0
> [ 3588.017966]  common_interrupt+0xf/0xf
> [ 3588.017966]  </IRQ>
> [ 3588.017989] handlers:
> [ 3588.020374] [<000000001b9f1da8>] vring_interrupt
> [ 3588.025099] Disabling IRQ #38
>
> This patchset attempts to fix this by cleaning up a bunch of races
> related to the handling of sq callbacks (aka tx interrupts).
> Somewhat tested but I couldn't reproduce the original issues
> reported, sending out for help with testing.
>
> Wei, does this address the spurious interrupt issue you are
> observing? Could you confirm please?
Thanks for working on this, Michael. Wei is on leave. I'll try to reproduce.

My main concern is whether the cost of the fix may be greater than the
race, if the additional locking may significantly impact
efficiency/throughput/latency. We lack that performance data right
now. The race had not been reported for years, and caused no real
concerns in the initial report we did get, either. That said, it may
be more problematic in specific scenarios, such as the packed rings
you pointed out.

One (additional) short term mitigation could be to further restrict
tx_napi default-on to exclude such scenarios.

Let me take a closer look at the individual patches.

>
> Thanks!
>
> changes from v2:
>         Fixed a race condition in start_xmit: enable_cb_delayed was
>         done as an optimization (to push out event index for
>         split ring) so we did not have to care about it
>         returning false (recheck). Now that we actually disable the cb
>         we have to do test the return value and do the actual recheck.
>
>
> Michael S. Tsirkin (4):
>   virtio_net: move tx vq operation under tx queue lock
>   virtio_net: move txq wakeups under tx q lock
>   virtio: fix up virtio_disable_cb
>   virtio_net: disable cb aggressively
>
>  drivers/net/virtio_net.c     | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> --
> MST
>

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 11:34 AM Willem de Bruijn
<willemdebruijn.kernel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 4:24 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at
redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > With the implementation of napi-tx in virtio driver, we clean tx
> > descriptors from rx napi handler, for the purpose of reducing tx
> > complete interrupts. But this introduces a race where tx complete
> > interrupt has been raised, but the handler finds there is no work to
do
> > because we have done the work in the previous rx interrupt handler.
> > A similar issue exists with polling from start_xmit, it is however
> > less common because of the delayed cb optimization of the split ring -
> > but will likely affect the packed ring once that is more common.
> >
> > In particular, this was reported to lead to the following warning msg:
> > [ 3588.010778] irq 38: nobody cared (try booting with the
> > "irqpoll" option)
> > [ 3588.017938] CPU: 4 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/4 Not tainted
> > 5.3.0-19-generic #20~18.04.2-Ubuntu
> > [ 3588.017940] Call Trace:
> > [ 3588.017942]  <IRQ>
> > [ 3588.017951]  dump_stack+0x63/0x85
> > [ 3588.017953]  __report_bad_irq+0x35/0xc0
> > [ 3588.017955]  note_interrupt+0x24b/0x2a0
> > [ 3588.017956]  handle_irq_event_percpu+0x54/0x80
> > [ 3588.017957]  handle_irq_event+0x3b/0x60
> > [ 3588.017958]  handle_edge_irq+0x83/0x1a0
> > [ 3588.017961]  handle_irq+0x20/0x30
> > [ 3588.017964]  do_IRQ+0x50/0xe0
> > [ 3588.017966]  common_interrupt+0xf/0xf
> > [ 3588.017966]  </IRQ>
> > [ 3588.017989] handlers:
> > [ 3588.020374] [<000000001b9f1da8>] vring_interrupt
> > [ 3588.025099] Disabling IRQ #38
> >
> > This patchset attempts to fix this by cleaning up a bunch of races
> > related to the handling of sq callbacks (aka tx interrupts).
> > Somewhat tested but I couldn't reproduce the original issues
> > reported, sending out for help with testing.
> >
> > Wei, does this address the spurious interrupt issue you are
> > observing? Could you confirm please?
>
> Thanks for working on this, Michael. Wei is on leave. I'll try to
reproduce.
The original report was generated with five GCE virtual machines
sharing a sole-tenant node, together sending up to 160 netperf
tcp_stream connections to 16 other instances. Running Ubuntu 20.04-LTS
with kernel 5.4.0-1034-gcp.

But the issue can also be reproduced with just two n2-standard-16
instances, running neper tcp_stream with high parallelism (-T 16 -F
240).

It's a bit faster to trigger by reducing the interrupt count threshold
from 99.9K/100K to 9.9K/10K. And I added additional logging to report
the unhandled rate even if lower.

Unhandled interrupt rate scales with the number of queue pairs
(`ethtool -L $DEV combined $NUM`). It is essentially absent at 8
queues, at around 90% at 14 queues. By default these GCE instances
have one rx and tx interrupt per core, so 16 each. With the rx and tx
interrupts for a given virtio-queue pinned to the same core.

Unfortunately, commit 3/4 did not have a significant impact on these
numbers. Have to think a bit more about possible mitigations. At least
I'll be able to test the more easily now.