From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2C558CCD183 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:39:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1v8F0u-0000wl-CT; Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:38:45 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1v8F0l-0000w1-Cc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:38:36 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([170.10.129.124]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1v8F0h-0006Vm-3I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:38:35 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1760348305; h=from:from:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references; bh=E2lqCRuHpif0UCjH+97lM7R4ZeWPNrd4Lwnit+wYyj0=; b=O764yJWxcNFRU1L72/A8vlaFeiuOPnDoMUQJ3bjJaHki9An8fzkn4iv30TzdpSocM6VdMl xxwZRdz263zD9NgGFPGUHMByygY389LXpUckTubQpvIFqKeS3EcHlaGHhnjmVNbR5ofKot HL/4MSG0a5b4i4TZhQgxDGjdie/1bPg= Received: from mx-prod-mc-05.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (ec2-54-186-198-63.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com [54.186.198.63]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-221-3ho7KMKAOy6QhnLeAYnZRg-1; Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:38:23 -0400 X-MC-Unique: 3ho7KMKAOy6QhnLeAYnZRg-1 X-Mimecast-MFC-AGG-ID: 3ho7KMKAOy6QhnLeAYnZRg_1760348302 Received: from mx-prod-int-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (mx-prod-int-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com [10.30.177.4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mx-prod-mc-05.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5826219560BA; Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:38:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from redhat.com (unknown [10.42.28.40]) by mx-prod-int-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 024D930002CE; Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:38:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:38:17 +0100 From: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= To: Tejus GK Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Manish Mishra Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] QIOChannelSocket: flush zerocopy socket error queue on sendmsg failure due to ENOBUF Message-ID: References: <20251013092126.3480671-1-tejus.gk@nutanix.com> <20251013092126.3480671-3-tejus.gk@nutanix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20251013092126.3480671-3-tejus.gk@nutanix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.14 (2025-02-20) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 10.30.177.4 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.129.124; envelope-from=berrange@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.001, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 09:21:22AM +0000, Tejus GK wrote: > From: Manish Mishra > > The kernel allocates extra metadata SKBs in case of a zerocopy send, > eventually used for zerocopy's notification mechanism. This metadata > memory is accounted for in the OPTMEM limit. The kernel queues > completion notifications on the socket error queue and this error queue > is freed when userspace reads it. > > Usually, in the case of in-order processing, the kernel will batch the > notifications and merge the metadata into a single SKB and free the > rest. As a result, it never exceeds the OPTMEM limit. However, if there > is any out-of-order processing or intermittent zerocopy failures, this > error chain can grow significantly, exhausting the OPTMEM limit. As a > result, all new sendmsg requests fail to allocate any new SKB, leading > to an ENOBUF error. Depending on the amount of data queued before the > flush (i.e., large live migration iterations), even large OPTMEM limits > are prone to failure. > > To work around this, if we encounter an ENOBUF error with a zerocopy > sendmsg, flush the error queue and retry once more. > > Co-authored-by: Manish Mishra > Signed-off-by: Tejus GK > --- > include/io/channel-socket.h | 5 +++ > io/channel-socket.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- > 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/io/channel-socket.h b/include/io/channel-socket.h > index 26319fa98b..fcfd489c6c 100644 > --- a/include/io/channel-socket.h > +++ b/include/io/channel-socket.h > @@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ struct QIOChannelSocket { > ssize_t zero_copy_queued; > ssize_t zero_copy_sent; > bool blocking; > + /** > + * This flag indicates whether any new data was successfully sent with > + * zerocopy since the last qio_channel_socket_flush() call. > + */ > + bool new_zero_copy_sent_success; > }; > > > diff --git a/io/channel-socket.c b/io/channel-socket.c > index 8b30d5b7f7..7cd9f3666d 100644 > --- a/io/channel-socket.c > +++ b/io/channel-socket.c > @@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ > > #define SOCKET_MAX_FDS 16 > > +#ifdef QEMU_MSG_ZEROCOPY > +static int qio_channel_socket_flush_internal(QIOChannel *ioc, > + bool block, > + Error **errp); > +#endif > + > SocketAddress * > qio_channel_socket_get_local_address(QIOChannelSocket *ioc, > Error **errp) > @@ -66,6 +72,7 @@ qio_channel_socket_new(void) > sioc->zero_copy_queued = 0; > sioc->zero_copy_sent = 0; > sioc->blocking = false; > + sioc->new_zero_copy_sent_success = FALSE; > > ioc = QIO_CHANNEL(sioc); > qio_channel_set_feature(ioc, QIO_CHANNEL_FEATURE_SHUTDOWN); > @@ -618,6 +625,8 @@ static ssize_t qio_channel_socket_writev(QIOChannel *ioc, > size_t fdsize = sizeof(int) * nfds; > struct cmsghdr *cmsg; > int sflags = 0; > + bool blocking = sioc->blocking; > + bool zerocopy_flushed_once = false; > > memset(control, 0, CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(int) * SOCKET_MAX_FDS)); > > @@ -664,9 +673,24 @@ static ssize_t qio_channel_socket_writev(QIOChannel *ioc, > goto retry; > case ENOBUFS: > if (flags & QIO_CHANNEL_WRITE_FLAG_ZERO_COPY) { > - error_setg_errno(errp, errno, > - "Process can't lock enough memory for using MSG_ZEROCOPY"); > - return -1; > + /** > + * Socket error queueing may exhaust the OPTMEM limit. Try > + * flushing the error queue once. > + */ > + if (!zerocopy_flushed_once) { > + ret = qio_channel_socket_flush_internal(ioc, blocking, > + errp); > + if (ret < 0) { > + return -1; > + } > + zerocopy_flushed_once = TRUE; > + goto retry; > + } else { > + error_setg_errno(errp, errno, > + "Process can't lock enough memory for " > + "using MSG_ZEROCOPY"); > + return -1; > + } > } > break; > } > @@ -777,8 +801,9 @@ static ssize_t qio_channel_socket_writev(QIOChannel *ioc, > > > #ifdef QEMU_MSG_ZEROCOPY > -static int qio_channel_socket_flush(QIOChannel *ioc, > - Error **errp) > +static int qio_channel_socket_flush_internal(QIOChannel *ioc, > + bool block, > + Error **errp) > { > QIOChannelSocket *sioc = QIO_CHANNEL_SOCKET(ioc); > struct msghdr msg = {}; > @@ -786,7 +811,6 @@ static int qio_channel_socket_flush(QIOChannel *ioc, > struct cmsghdr *cm; > char control[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(*serr))]; > int received; > - int ret; > > if (sioc->zero_copy_queued == sioc->zero_copy_sent) { > return 0; > @@ -796,16 +820,20 @@ static int qio_channel_socket_flush(QIOChannel *ioc, > msg.msg_controllen = sizeof(control); > memset(control, 0, sizeof(control)); > > - ret = 1; > - > while (sioc->zero_copy_sent < sioc->zero_copy_queued) { > received = recvmsg(sioc->fd, &msg, MSG_ERRQUEUE); > if (received < 0) { > switch (errno) { > case EAGAIN: > - /* Nothing on errqueue, wait until something is available */ > - qio_channel_wait(ioc, G_IO_ERR); > - continue; > + if (block) { > + /* > + * Nothing on errqueue, wait until something is > + * available. > + */ > + qio_channel_wait(ioc, G_IO_ERR); > + continue; Why G_IO_ERR ? If we're waiting for recvmsg() to become ready, then it would need to be G_IO_IN we're waiting for. > + } > + return 0; > case EINTR: > continue; > default: With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|