[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] ethdev: add port ownership

Matan Azrad matan at mellanox.com
Thu Jan 18 15:00:23 CET 2018


Hi Neil

From: Neil Horman, Thursday, January 18, 2018 3:10 PM
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 05:01:10PM +0000, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Neil Horman [mailto:nhorman at tuxdriver.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 2:00 PM
> > > To: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
> > > Cc: Ananyev, Konstantin <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>; Thomas
> > > Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>; Gaetan Rivet
> > > <gaetan.rivet at 6wind.com>; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu at intel.com>;
> > > dev at dpdk.org; Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] ethdev: add port ownership
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 12:05:42PM +0000, Matan Azrad wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Konstantin
> > > > From: Ananyev, Konstantin, Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 1:24
> > > > PM
> > > > > Hi Matan,
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi Konstantin
> > > > > >
> > > > > > From: Ananyev, Konstantin, Tuesday, January 16, 2018 9:11 PM
> > > > > > > Hi Matan,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Hi Konstantin
> > > > > > > > From: Ananyev, Konstantin, Monday, January 15, 2018 8:44
> > > > > > > > PM
> > > > > > > > > Hi Matan,
> > > > > > > > > > Hi Konstantin
> > > > > > > > > > From: Ananyev, Konstantin, Monday, January 15, 2018
> > > > > > > > > > 1:45 PM
> > > > > > > > > > > Hi Matan,
> > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Konstantin
> > > > > > > > > > > > From: Ananyev, Konstantin, Friday, January 12,
> > > > > > > > > > > > 2018 2:02 AM
> > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Matan,
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Konstantin
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Ananyev, Konstantin, Thursday, January
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > 11, 2018
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2:40 PM
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Matan,
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Konstantin
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Ananyev, Konstantin, Wednesday,
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > January 10,
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2018
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 3:36 PM
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Matan,
> > > > > > > >  <snip>
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It is good to see that now
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > scanning/updating rte_eth_dev_data[] is
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > lock protected, but it might be not very
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > plausible to protect both data[] and
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > next_owner_id using the
> > > > > > > > > > > same lock.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I guess you mean to the owner structure in
> > > > > > > > > > > rte_eth_dev_data[port_id].
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The next_owner_id is read by ownership
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > APIs(for owner validation), so it
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > makes sense to use the same lock.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Actually, why not?
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Well to me next_owner_id and
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > rte_eth_dev_data[] are not directly
> > > > > > > > > > > > > related.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You may create new owner_id but it doesn't
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > mean you would update rte_eth_dev_data[]
> immediately.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > And visa-versa - you might just want to
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > update rte_eth_dev_data[].name or .owner_id.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It is not very good coding practice to use
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > same lock for non-related data structures.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > I see the relation like next:
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Since the ownership mechanism synchronization
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > is in ethdev responsibility, we must protect
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > against user mistakes as much as we can by
> > > > > > > > > > > > > using the same lock.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > So, if user try to set by invalid owner
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > (exactly the ID which currently is
> > > > > > > > > > > > > allocated) we can protect on it.
> > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > Hmm, not sure why you can't do same checking
> > > > > > > > > > > > > with different lock or atomic variable?
> > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > The set ownership API is protected by ownership
> > > > > > > > > > > > lock and checks the owner ID validity By reading the next
> owner ID.
> > > > > > > > > > > > So, the owner ID allocation and set API should use
> > > > > > > > > > > > the same atomic
> > > > > > > > > > > mechanism.
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > Sure but all you are doing for checking validity, is
> > > > > > > > > > > check that owner_id > 0 &&& owner_id < next_ownwe_id,
> right?
> > > > > > > > > > > As you don't allow owner_id overlap (16/3248 bits)
> > > > > > > > > > > you can safely do same check with just
> atomic_get(&next_owner_id).
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > It will not protect it, scenario:
> > > > > > > > > > - current next_id is X.
> > > > > > > > > > - call set ownership of port A with owner id X by
> > > > > > > > > > thread 0(by user
> > > > > > > mistake).
> > > > > > > > > > - context switch
> > > > > > > > > > - allocate new id by thread 1 and get X and change
> > > > > > > > > > next_id to
> > > > > > > > > > X+1
> > > > > > > > > atomically.
> > > > > > > > > > -  context switch
> > > > > > > > > > - Thread 0 validate X by atomic_read and succeed to
> > > > > > > > > > take
> > > > > ownership.
> > > > > > > > > > - The system loosed the port(or will be managed by two
> > > > > > > > > > entities) -
> > > > > > > crash.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Ok, and how using lock will protect you with such scenario?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > The owner set API validation by thread 0 should fail
> > > > > > > > because the owner
> > > > > > > validation is included in the protected section.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Then your validation function would fail even if you'll use
> > > > > > > atomic ops instead of lock.
> > > > > > No.
> > > > > > With atomic this specific scenario will cause the validation to pass.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you explain to me how?
> > > > >
> > > > > rte_eth_is_valid_owner_id(uint16_t owner_id) {
> > > > >               int32_t cur_owner_id =
> > > > > RTE_MIN(rte_atomic32_get(next_owner_id),
> > > > > UINT16_MAX);
> > > > >
> > > > > 	if (owner_id == RTE_ETH_DEV_NO_OWNER || owner >
> > > > > cur_owner_id) {
> > > > > 		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Invalid owner_id=%d.\n", owner_id);
> > > > > 		return 0;
> > > > > 	}
> > > > > 	return 1;
> > > > > }
> > > > >
> > > > > Let say your next_owne_id==X, and you invoke
> > > > > rte_eth_is_valid_owner_id(owner_id=X+1)  - it would fail.
> > > >
> > > > Explanation:
> > > > The scenario with locks:
> > > > next_owner_id = X.
> > > > Thread 0 call to set API(with invalid owner Y=X) and take lock.
> > > > Context switch.
> > > > Thread 1 call to owner_new and stuck in the lock.
> > > > Context switch.
> > > > Thread 0 does owner id validation and failed(Y>=X) - unlock the lock and
> return failure to the user.
> > > > Context switch.
> > > > Thread 1 take the lock and update X to X+1, then, unlock the lock.
> > > > Everything is OK!
> > > >
> > > > The same scenario with atomics:
> > > > next_owner_id = X.
> > > > Thread 0 call to set API(with invalid owner Y=X) and take lock.
> > > > Context switch.
> > > > Thread 1 call to owner_new and change X to X+1(atomically).
> > > > Context switch.
> > > > Thread 0 does owner id validation and success(Y<(atomic)X+1) - unlock
> the lock and return success to the  user.
> > > > Problem!
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Matan is correct here, there is no way to preform parallel set
> > > operations using just and atomic variable here, because multiple
> > > reads of next_owner_id need to be preformed while it is stable.
> > > That is to say rte_eth_next_owner_id must be compared to
> > > RTE_ETH_DEV_NO_OWNER and owner_id in rte_eth_is_valid_owner_id.
> If
> > > you were to only use an atomic_read on such a variable, it could be
> > > incremented by the owner_new function between the checks and an
> > > invalid owner value could become valid because  a third thread
> > > incremented the next value.  The state of next_owner_id must be kept
> > > stable during any validity checks
> >
> > It could still be incremented between the checks - if let say
> > different thread will invoke new_onwer_id, grab the lock update
> > counter, release the lock - all that before the check.
> I don't see how all of the contents of rte_eth_dev_owner_set is protected
> under rte_eth_dev_ownership_lock, as is rte_eth_dev_owner_new.
> Next_owner might increment between another threads calls to owner_new
> and owner_set, but that will just cause a transition from an ownership id
> being valid to invalid, and thats ok, as long as there is consistency in the
> model that enforces a single valid owner at a time (in that case the
> subsequent caller to owner_new).
> 

I'm not sure I fully understand you, but see:
we can't protect all of the user mistakes(using the wrong owner id).
But we are doing the maximum for it.


> Though this confusion does underscore my assertion I think that this API is
> overly complicated
> 

I really don't think it is complicated. - just take ownership of a port(by owner id allocation and set APIs) and manage the port as you want. 

> Neil



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