Re: [PATCH 1/3] virtio-crypto: fixup potential cpu stall when free unused bufs

Xianting Tian
2023-06-09T13:50:04Z

在 2023/6/9 下午9:41, Greg KH 写道:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 03:39:24PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 09:18:15PM +0800, Xianting Tian wrote:
>>> From: Xianting Tian <tianxianting.txt@alibaba-inc.com>
>>>
>>> Cpu stall issue may happen if device is configured with multi queues
>>> and large queue depth, so fix it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_core.c | 1 +
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_core.c b/drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_core.c
>>> index 1198bd306365..94849fa3bd74 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_core.c
>>> @@ -480,6 +480,7 @@ static void virtcrypto_free_unused_reqs(struct virtio_crypto *vcrypto)
>>> kfree(vc_req->req_data);
>>> kfree(vc_req->sgs);
>>> }
>>> + cond_resched();
>> that's not "fixing a stall", it is "call the scheduler because we are
>> taking too long". The CPU isn't stalled at all, just busy.
>>
>> Are you sure this isn't just a bug in the code? Why is this code taking
>> so long that you have to force the scheduler to run? This is almost
>> always a sign that something else needs to be fixed instead.
> And same comment on the other 2 patches, please fix this properly.
>
> Also, this is a tight loop that is just freeing memory, why is it taking
> so long? Why do you want it to take longer (which is what you are doing
> here), ideally it would be faster, not slower, so you are now slowing
> down the system overall with this patchset, right?

yes, it is the similar fix with one for virtio-net

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/virtio_net.c?h=v6.4-rc5&id=f8bb5104394560e29017c25bcade4c6b7aabd108
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/virtio_net.c?h=v6.4-rc5&id=f8bb5104394560e29017c25bcade4c6b7aabd108>

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h