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Willem de Bruijn 1e6f74536d vhost_net: do not stall on zerocopy depletion
Vhost-net has a hard limit on the number of zerocopy skbs in flight.
When reached, transmission stalls. Stalls cause latency, as well as
head-of-line blocking of other flows that do not use zerocopy.

Instead of stalling, revert to copy-based transmission.

Tested by sending two udp flows from guest to host, one with payload
of VHOST_GOODCOPY_LEN, the other too small for zerocopy (1B). The
large flow is redirected to a netem instance with 1MBps rate limit
and deep 1000 entry queue.

  modprobe ifb
  ip link set dev ifb0 up
  tc qdisc add dev ifb0 root netem limit 1000 rate 1MBit

  tc qdisc add dev tap0 ingress
  tc filter add dev tap0 parent ffff: protocol ip \
      u32 match ip dport 8000 0xffff \
      action mirred egress redirect dev ifb0

Before the delay, both flows process around 80K pps. With the delay,
before this patch, both process around 400. After this patch, the
large flow is still rate limited, while the small reverts to its
original rate. See also discussion in the first link, below.

Without rate limiting, {1, 10, 100}x TCP_STREAM tests continued to
send at 100% zerocopy.

The limit in vhost_exceeds_maxpend must be carefully chosen. With
vq->num >> 1, the flows remain correlated. This value happens to
correspond to VHOST_MAX_PENDING for vq->num == 256. Allow smaller
fractions and ensure correctness also for much smaller values of
vq->num, by testing the min() of both explicitly. See also the
discussion in the second link below.

Changes
  v1 -> v2
    - replaced min with typed min_t
    - avoid unnecessary whitespace change

Link:http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAF=yD-+Wk9sc9dXMUq1+x_hh=3ThTXa6BnZkygP3tgVpjbp93g@mail.gmail.com
Link:http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170819064129.27272-1-den@klaipeden.com
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
History 2017-10-09 20:46:39 -07:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-09 20:11:09 -07:00
block bsg-lib: fix use-after-free under memory-pressure 2017-10-04 08:35:04 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - update correct dst SGL entry 2017-09-20 17:42:42 +08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-09 20:11:09 -07:00
drivers vhost_net: do not stall on zerocopy depletion 2017-10-09 20:46:39 -07:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs NFS client bugfixes for Linux 4.14 2017-10-09 10:55:37 -07:00
include openvswitch: Add erspan tunnel support. 2017-10-09 20:45:50 -07:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-09 20:11:09 -07:00
lib once: switch to new jump label API 2017-10-09 20:26:23 -07:00
mm mm/memory_hotplug: define find_{smallest|biggest}_section_pfn as unsigned long 2017-10-03 17:54:26 -07:00
net openvswitch: Add erspan tunnel support. 2017-10-09 20:45:50 -07:00
samples bpf: add a test case for helper bpf_perf_prog_read_value 2017-10-07 23:05:57 +01:00
scripts Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-05 18:19:22 -07:00
security lsm: fix smack_inode_removexattr and xattr_getsecurity memleak 2017-10-04 18:03:15 +11:00
sound sound fixes for 4.14-rc4 2017-10-05 10:39:29 -07:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-09 20:11:09 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap Update James Hogan's email address 2017-10-04 17:11:53 -07:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS selinux/stable-4.14 PR 20170831 2017-09-12 13:21:00 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-09 20:11:09 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.14-rc4 2017-10-08 20:53:29 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.