[dpdk-dev] Problems running netvsc multiq

[Mohammed Gamal]

On Fri, 2018-12-07 at 11:18 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 13:15:43 +0200
> Mohammed Gamal <mgamal at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 14:32 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > The problem is a regression in 4.20 kernel. Bisecting now.  
> > 
> > I was bisecting the kernel and the change that seems to introduce
> > this
> > regression is this one:
> > 
> > commit ae6935ed7d424ffa74d634da00767e7b03c98fd3
> > Author: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > Date:   Fri Sep 14 09:10:17 2018 -0700
> > 
> >     vmbus: split ring buffer allocation from open
> >     
> >     The UIO driver needs the ring buffer to be persistent(reused)
> >     across open/close. Split the allocation and setup of ring
> > buffer
> >     out of vmbus_open. For normal usage vmbus_open/vmbus_close
> > there
> >     are no changes; only impacts uio_hv_generic which needs to keep
> >     ring buffer memory and reuse when application restarts.
> >     
> >     Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> > 
> 
> Patch posted: 
> 
> From stephen at networkplumber.org Fri Dec  7 10:58:47 2018
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> Subject: [PATCH] vmbus: fix subchannel removal
> 
> The changes to split ring allocation from open/close, broke
> the cleanup of subchannels. This resulted in problems using
> uio on network devices because the subchannel was left behind
> when the network device was unbound.
> 
> The cause was in the disconnect logic which used list splice
> to move the subchannel list into a local variable. This won't
> work because the subchannel list is needed later during the
> process of the rescind messages (relid2channel).
> 
> The fix is to just leave the subchannel list in place
> which is what the original code did. The list is cleaned
> up later when the host rescind is processed.
> 
> Fixes: ae6935ed7d42 ("vmbus: split ring buffer allocation from open")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
> ---
>  drivers/hv/channel.c | 10 +---------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel.c b/drivers/hv/channel.c
> index fe00b12e4417..bea4c9850247 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/channel.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/channel.c
> @@ -701,20 +701,12 @@ static int vmbus_close_internal(struct
> vmbus_channel *channel)
>  int vmbus_disconnect_ring(struct vmbus_channel *channel)
>  {
>  	struct vmbus_channel *cur_channel, *tmp;
> -	unsigned long flags;
> -	LIST_HEAD(list);
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	if (channel->primary_channel != NULL)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	/* Snapshot the list of subchannels */
> -	spin_lock_irqsave(&channel->lock, flags);
> -	list_splice_init(&channel->sc_list, &list);
> -	channel->num_sc = 0;
> -	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&channel->lock, flags);
> -
> -	list_for_each_entry_safe(cur_channel, tmp, &list, sc_list) {
> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(cur_channel, tmp, &channel-
> >sc_list, sc_list) {
>  		if (cur_channel->rescind)
>  			wait_for_completion(&cur_channel-
> >rescind_event);
> 

Hi Stephen,
This works indeed for the first run. In any subsequent runs, I get this

testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_0>: n=155456,
size=2176, socket=0
testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: ring_mp_mc
Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
hn_dev_configure():  >>
hn_rndis_link_status(): link status 0x40020006
hn_subchan_configure(): open 1 subchannels
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
[...]
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
vmbus_uio_get_subchan(): ring mmap not found (yet) for: 19
^C
Signal 2 received, preparing to exit...
LATENCY_STATS: failed to remove Rx callback for pid=0, qid=0
LATENCY_STATS: failed to remove Rx callback for pid=0, qid=1
LATENCY_STATS: failed to remove Tx callback for pid=0, qid=0
LATENCY_STATS: failed to remove Tx callback for pid=0, qid=1

Shutting down port 0...
Stopping ports...
Done
Closing ports...
Port 0 is now not stopped
Done
Bye...

Do you see that on your end as well?