[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] vhost: improve dirty pages logging performance
Tiwei Bie
tiwei.bie at intel.com
Wed May 16 08:21:07 CEST 2018
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 07:30:21PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> This patch caches all dirty pages logging until the used ring index
> is updated. These dirty pages won't be accessed by the guest as
> long as the host doesn't give them back to it by updating the
> index.
>
> The goal of this optimization is to fix a performance regression
> introduced when the vhost library started to use atomic operations
> to set bits in the shared dirty log map. While the fix was valid
> as previous implementation wasn't safe against concurent accesses,
Typo: concurent
> contention was induced.
>
> With this patch, during migration, we have:
> 1. Less atomic operations as only a single atomic OR operation
> per 32 or 64 (depending on CPU) pages.
> 2. Less atomic operations as during a burst, the same page will
> be marked dirty only once.
> 3. Less write memory barriers.
>
> Fixes: 897f13a1f726 ("vhost: make page logging atomic")
>
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Cc: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie at intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
This is a nice approach! Thanks for the work!
> ---
> lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c | 29 +++++++----
> 2 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h
> index 891978131..8f6a41d7e 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h
> @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
>
> #define BUF_VECTOR_MAX 256
>
> +#define VHOST_LOG_CACHE_NR 32
> +
> /**
> * Structure contains buffer address, length and descriptor index
> * from vring to do scatter RX.
> @@ -69,6 +71,14 @@ struct batch_copy_elem {
> uint64_t log_addr;
> };
>
> +/*
> + * Structure that contains the info for batched dirty logging.
> + */
> +struct log_cache_entry {
> + uint32_t offset;
> + unsigned long val;
> +};
> +
> /**
> * Structure contains variables relevant to RX/TX virtqueues.
> */
> @@ -112,6 +122,9 @@ struct vhost_virtqueue {
> struct batch_copy_elem *batch_copy_elems;
> uint16_t batch_copy_nb_elems;
>
> + struct log_cache_entry log_cache[VHOST_LOG_CACHE_NR];
> + uint16_t log_cache_nb_elem;
> +
> rte_rwlock_t iotlb_lock;
> rte_rwlock_t iotlb_pending_lock;
> struct rte_mempool *iotlb_pool;
> @@ -309,7 +322,15 @@ struct virtio_net {
> static __rte_always_inline void
> vhost_set_bit(unsigned int nr, volatile uint8_t *addr)
> {
> +#if defined(RTE_TOOLCHAIN_GCC) && (GCC_VERSION < 70100)
Just curious, is there any reference about why
this version was chosen? Thanks!
> + /*
> + * __sync_ built-ins are deprecated, but __atomic_ ones
> + * are sub-optimized in older GCC versions.
> + */
The indent isn't right (just need one tab here).
> __sync_fetch_and_or_8(addr, (1U << nr));
> +#else
> + __atomic_fetch_or(addr, (1U << nr), __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
> +#endif
> }
>
> static __rte_always_inline void
> @@ -340,6 +361,98 @@ vhost_log_write(struct virtio_net *dev, uint64_t addr, uint64_t len)
> }
> }
>
> +static __rte_always_inline void
> +vhost_log_cache_sync(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
> +{
> + unsigned long *log_base;
> + int i;
> +
> + if (likely(((dev->features & (1ULL << VHOST_F_LOG_ALL)) == 0) ||
> + !dev->log_base))
> + return;
> +
> + log_base = (unsigned long *)(uintptr_t)dev->log_base;
> +
> + /* To make sure guest memory updates are committed before logging */
> + rte_smp_wmb();
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < vq->log_cache_nb_elem; i++) {
> + struct log_cache_entry *elem = vq->log_cache + i;
> +
> +#if defined(RTE_TOOLCHAIN_GCC) && (GCC_VERSION < 70100)
> + /*
> + * '__sync' builtins are deprecated, but '__atomic' ones
> + * are sub-optimized in older GCC versions.
> + */
> + __sync_fetch_and_or(log_base + elem->offset, elem->val);
> +#else
> + __atomic_fetch_or(log_base + elem->offset, elem->val,
> + __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
> +#endif
> + }
> +
> + vq->log_cache_nb_elem = 0;
> +}
> +
> +static __rte_always_inline void
> +vhost_log_cache_page(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> + uint64_t page)
> +{
> + uint32_t bit_nr = page % (sizeof(unsigned long) << 3);
> + uint32_t offset = page / (sizeof(unsigned long) << 3);
> + int i;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < vq->log_cache_nb_elem; i++) {
> + struct log_cache_entry *elem = vq->log_cache + i;
> +
> + if (elem->offset == offset) {
> + elem->val |= (1U << bit_nr);
The val is unsigned long now, we need to use 1UL.
> + return;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + if (unlikely(i >= VHOST_LOG_CACHE_NR)) {
> + /*
> + * No more room for a new log cache entry,
> + * so write the dirty log map directly.
> + */
> + rte_smp_wmb();
> + vhost_log_page((uint8_t *)(uintptr_t)dev->log_base, page);
> +
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + vq->log_cache[i].offset = offset;
> + vq->log_cache[i].val = (1U << bit_nr);
Ditto.
> +}
> +
> +static __rte_always_inline void
> +vhost_log_cache_write(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> + uint64_t addr, uint64_t len)
The 8 spaces width tabs are more widely used in DPDK.
And in below coding style document,
https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk/blob/master/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst
The width of each level indent in most examples is 8
spaces. So maybe it's better to keep using 8 spaces
width tabs.
> +{
> + uint64_t page;
> +
> + if (likely(((dev->features & (1ULL << VHOST_F_LOG_ALL)) == 0) ||
> + !dev->log_base || !len))
> + return;
> +
> + if (unlikely(dev->log_size <= ((addr + len - 1) / VHOST_LOG_PAGE / 8)))
> + return;
> +
> + page = addr / VHOST_LOG_PAGE;
> + while (page * VHOST_LOG_PAGE < addr + len) {
> + vhost_log_cache_page(dev, vq, page);
> + page += 1;
> + }
> +}
> +
> +static __rte_always_inline void
> +vhost_log_cache_used_vring(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> + uint64_t offset, uint64_t len)
> +{
> + vhost_log_cache_write(dev, vq, vq->log_guest_addr + offset, len);
> +}
> +
> static __rte_always_inline void
> vhost_log_used_vring(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> uint64_t offset, uint64_t len)
> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
> index eed6b0227..76ec5f089 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ do_flush_shadow_used_ring(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> rte_memcpy(&vq->used->ring[to],
> &vq->shadow_used_ring[from],
> size * sizeof(struct vring_used_elem));
> - vhost_log_used_vring(dev, vq,
> + vhost_log_cache_used_vring(dev, vq,
> offsetof(struct vring_used, ring[to]),
> size * sizeof(struct vring_used_elem));
> }
> @@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ flush_shadow_used_ring(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
>
> rte_smp_wmb();
>
> + vhost_log_cache_sync(dev, vq);
Each time we call vhost_log_cache_sync(), there
is already a rte_smp_wmb() which is to protect
the used->idx update. So maybe there is no need
to call rte_smp_wmb() in vhost_log_cache_sync().
Best regards,
Tiwei Bie
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