[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] virtio: fix rx ring descriptor starvation
Tom Kiely
tkiely at brocade.com
Thu Dec 17 10:22:22 CET 2015
Hi,
Sorry for the delay. I have been occupied on another critical issue.
I'll look at this today.
Tom
On 12/17/2015 04:47 AM, Xie, Huawei wrote:
> On 11/26/2015 1:33 AM, Xie, Huawei wrote:
>> On 11/13/2015 5:33 PM, Tom Kiely wrote:
>>> If all rx descriptors are processed while transient
>>> mbuf exhaustion is present, the rx ring ends up with
>>> no available descriptors. Thus no packets are received
>>> on that ring. Since descriptor refill is performed post
>>> rx descriptor processing, in this case no refill is
>>> ever subsequently performed resulting in permanent rx
>>> traffic drop.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tom Kiely <tkiely at brocade.com>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c | 6 ++++--
>>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
>>> index 5770fa2..a95e234 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
>>> @@ -586,7 +586,8 @@ virtio_recv_pkts(void *rx_queue, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
>>> if (likely(num > DESC_PER_CACHELINE))
>>> num = num - ((rxvq->vq_used_cons_idx + num) % DESC_PER_CACHELINE);
>>>
>>> - if (num == 0)
>>> + /* Refill free descriptors even if no pkts recvd */
>>> + if (num == 0 && virtqueue_full(rxvq))
>> Should the return condition be that no used buffers and we have avail
>> descs in avail ring, i.e,
>> num == 0 && rxvq->vq_free_cnt != rxvq->vq_nentries
>>
>> rather than
>> num == 0 && rxvq->vq_free_cnt == 0
>> ?
> Tom:
> Any further progress?
>>> return 0;
>>>
>>> num = virtqueue_dequeue_burst_rx(rxvq, rcv_pkts, len, num);
>>> @@ -683,7 +684,8 @@ virtio_recv_mergeable_pkts(void *rx_queue,
>>>
>>> virtio_rmb();
>>>
>>> - if (nb_used == 0)
>>> + /* Refill free descriptors even if no pkts recvd */
>>> + if (nb_used == 0 && virtqueue_full(rxvq))
>>> return 0;
>>>
>>> PMD_RX_LOG(DEBUG, "used:%d\n", nb_used);
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