[PATCH vhost 21/22] virtio_net: update tx timeout record

Xuan Zhuo
Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:12:33 -0000

On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 05:10:55 -0400, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at
redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 05:27:27PM +0800, Xuan Zhuo wrote:
> > If send queue sent some packets, we update the tx timeout
> > record to prevent the tx timeout.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo at linux.alibaba.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/virtio/xsk.c | 10 ++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/xsk.c b/drivers/net/virtio/xsk.c
> > index 7abd46bb0e3d..e605f860edb6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/virtio/xsk.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/xsk.c
> > @@ -274,6 +274,16 @@ bool virtnet_xsk_xmit(struct virtnet_sq *sq,
struct xsk_buff_pool *pool,
> >
> >  	virtnet_xsk_check_queue(sq);
> >
> > +	if (stats.packets) {
> > +		struct netdev_queue *txq;
> > +		struct virtnet_info *vi;
> > +
> > +		vi = sq->vq->vdev->priv;
> > +
> > +		txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(vi->dev, sq - vi->sq);
> > +		txq_trans_cond_update(txq);
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	u64_stats_update_begin(&sq->stats.syncp);
> >  	sq->stats.packets += stats.packets;
> >  	sq->stats.bytes += stats.bytes;
>
> I don't get what this is doing. Is there some kind of race here you
> are trying to address? And what introduced the race?


Because the xsk xmit shares the send queue with the kernel xmit,
then when I do benchmark, the xsk will always use the send queue,
so the kernel may have no chance to do xmit, the tx watchdog
thinks that the send queue is hang and prints tx timeout log.

So I call the txq_trans_cond_update() to tell the tx watchdog
that the send queue is working.

Thanks.


>
> > --
> > 2.32.0.3.g01195cf9f
>
>