Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Preventing job distribution to isolated CPUs

[Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>]

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On 6/22/20 7:45 PM, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote:
>                                                                            
> Testing                                                                    
> =======                                                                    
> * Patch 1:                                                                 
>   Fix for cpumask_local_spread() is tested by creating VFs, loading        
>   iavf module and by adding a tracepoint to confirm that only housekeeping 
>   CPUs are picked when an appropriate profile is set up and all remaining  
>   CPUs when no CPU isolation is configured.                                
>                                                                            
> * Patch 2:                                                                 
>   To test the PCI fix, I hotplugged a virtio-net-pci from qemu console     
>   and forced its addition to a specific node to trigger the code path that 
>   includes the proposed fix and verified that only housekeeping CPUs       
>   are included via tracepoint.                                             
>                                                                            
> * Patch 3:                                                                 
>   To test the fix in store_rps_map(), I tried configuring an isolated      
>   CPU by writing to /sys/class/net/en*/queues/rx*/rps_cpus which           
>   resulted in 'write error: Invalid argument' error. For the case          
>   where a non-isolated CPU is writing in rps_cpus the above operation      
>   succeeded without any error.                                             
>                                                                            
>                                                                            
> Changes from v1:                                                           
> ===============                                                            
> - Included the suggestions made by Bjorn Helgaas in the commit messages.    
> - Included the 'Reviewed-by' and 'Acked-by' received for Patch-2.          
>                                                                            
> [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/51102eebe62336c6a4e584c7a503553b9f90e01c.camel@marvell.com/
>                                                                            
> Alex Belits (3):                                                           
>   lib: Restrict cpumask_local_spread to houskeeping CPUs                   
>   PCI: Restrict probe functions to housekeeping CPUs                       
>   net: Restrict receive packets queuing to housekeeping CPUs               
>                                                                            
>  drivers/pci/pci-driver.c |  5 ++++-                                       
>  lib/cpumask.c            | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------    
>  net/core/net-sysfs.c     | 10 +++++++++-                                  
>  3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)                        
>                                                                            
> --
>

Hi,

It seems that the cover email got messed up while I was sending the patches.
I am putting my intended cover-email below for now. I can send a v3 with proper
cover-email if needed. The reason, I am not sending it right now, is that if I
get some comments in my patches I will prefer including them as well in my
v3 posting.


"
This patch-set is originated from one of the patches that have been
posted earlier as a part of "Task_isolation" mode [1] patch series
by Alex Belits <abelits@marvell.com>. There are only a couple of
changes that I am proposing in this patch-set compared to what Alex
has posted earlier.


Context
=======
On a broad level, all three patches that are included in this patch
set are meant to improve the driver/library to respect isolated
CPUs by not pinning any job on it. Not doing so could impact
the latency values in RT use-cases.


Patches
=======
* Patch1:
  The first patch is meant to make cpumask_local_spread()
  aware of the isolated CPUs. It ensures that the CPUs that
  are returned by this API only includes housekeeping CPUs.

* Patch2:
  This patch ensures that a probe function that is called
  using work_on_cpu() doesn't run any task on an isolated CPU.

* Patch3:
  This patch makes store_rps_map() aware of the isolated
  CPUs so that rps don't queue any jobs on an isolated CPU.


Proposed Changes
================
To fix the above-mentioned issues Alex has used housekeeping_cpumask().
The only changes that I am proposing here are:
- Removing the dependency on CONFIG_TASK_ISOLATION that was proposed by
  Alex. As it should be safe to rely on housekeeping_cpumask()
  even when we don't have any isolated CPUs and we want
  to fall back to using all available CPUs in any of the above scenarios.
- Using both HK_FLAG_DOMAIN and HK_FLAG_WQ in all three patches, this is
  because we would want the above fixes not only when we have isolcpus but
  also with something like systemd's CPU affinity.


Testing
=======
* Patch 1:
  Fix for cpumask_local_spread() is tested by creating VFs, loading
  iavf module and by adding a tracepoint to confirm that only housekeeping
  CPUs are picked when an appropriate profile is set up and all remaining
  CPUs when no CPU isolation is configured.

* Patch 2:
  To test the PCI fix, I hotplugged a virtio-net-pci from qemu console
  and forced its addition to a specific node to trigger the code path that
  includes the proposed fix and verified that only housekeeping CPUs
  are included via tracepoint.

* Patch 3:
  To test the fix in store_rps_map(), I tried configuring an isolated
  CPU by writing to /sys/class/net/en*/queues/rx*/rps_cpus which
  resulted in 'write error: Invalid argument' error. For the case
  where a non-isolated CPU is writing in rps_cpus the above operation
  succeeded without any error.


Changes from v1: [2]
===============
- Included the suggestions made by Bjorn Helgaas in the commit message.
- Included the 'Reviewed-by' and 'Acked-by' received for Patch-2.

[1]
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/51102eebe62336c6a4e584c7a503553b9f90e01c.camel@marvell.com/
[2]
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-pci/cover/20200610161226.424337-1-nitesh@redhat.com/

Alex Belits (3):
  lib: Restrict cpumask_local_spread to houskeeping CPUs
  PCI: Restrict probe functions to housekeeping CPUs
  net: Restrict receive packets queuing to housekeeping CPUs

 drivers/pci/pci-driver.c |  5 ++++-
 lib/cpumask.c            | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 net/core/net-sysfs.c     | 10 +++++++++-
 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

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Thanks
Nitesh


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