Re: [PATCH v2 06/11] vduse: Support automatic irq callback affinity

[Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 12:56 PM Yongji Xie <xieyongji@bytedance.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 1:30 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 4:59 PM Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This brings current interrupt affinity spreading mechanism
> > > to vduse device. We will make use of irq_create_affinity_masks()
> > > to create an irq callback affinity mask for each virtqueue of
> > > vduse device. Then we will choose the CPU which has the lowest
> > > number of interrupt allocated in the affinity mask to run the
> > > irq callback.
> >
> > This seems a balance mechanism but it might not be the semantic of the
> > affinity or any reason we need to do this? I guess we should use at
> > least round-robin in this case.
> >
>
> Here we try to follow the pci interrupt management mechanism. In VM
> cases, the interrupt should always be triggered to one specific CPU
> rather than to each CPU in turn.

If I was not wrong, when using MSI, most arch allows not only the
cpuid as the destination but policy like rr and low priority first.

Thanks

>
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
> > > index d126f3e32a20..90c2896039d9 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
> > > @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
> > >  #include <linux/nospec.h>
> > >  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> > >  #include <linux/sched/mm.h>
> > > +#include <linux/interrupt.h>
> > >  #include <uapi/linux/vduse.h>
> > >  #include <uapi/linux/vdpa.h>
> > >  #include <uapi/linux/virtio_config.h>
> > > @@ -58,6 +59,8 @@ struct vduse_virtqueue {
> > >         struct work_struct inject;
> > >         struct work_struct kick;
> > >         int irq_effective_cpu;
> > > +       struct cpumask irq_affinity;
> > > +       spinlock_t irq_affinity_lock;
> >
> > Ok, I'd suggest to squash this into patch 5 to make it more easier to
> > be reviewed.
> >
>
> OK.
>
> > >  };
> > >
> > >  struct vduse_dev;
> > > @@ -123,6 +126,7 @@ struct vduse_control {
> > >
> > >  static DEFINE_MUTEX(vduse_lock);
> > >  static DEFINE_IDR(vduse_idr);
> > > +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, vduse_allocated_irq);
> > >
> > >  static dev_t vduse_major;
> > >  static struct class *vduse_class;
> > > @@ -710,6 +714,49 @@ static u32 vduse_vdpa_get_generation(struct vdpa_device *vdpa)
> > >         return dev->generation;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +static void vduse_vq_update_effective_cpu(struct vduse_virtqueue *vq)
> > > +{
> > > +       unsigned int cpu, best_cpu;
> > > +       unsigned long allocated, allocated_min = UINT_MAX;
> > > +
> > > +       spin_lock(&vq->irq_affinity_lock);
> > > +
> > > +       best_cpu = vq->irq_effective_cpu;
> > > +       if (best_cpu != -1)
> > > +               per_cpu(vduse_allocated_irq, best_cpu) -= 1;
> > > +
> > > +       for_each_cpu(cpu, &vq->irq_affinity) {
> > > +               allocated = per_cpu(vduse_allocated_irq, cpu);
> > > +               if (!cpu_online(cpu) || allocated >= allocated_min)
> > > +                       continue;
> > > +
> > > +               best_cpu = cpu;
> > > +               allocated_min = allocated;
> > > +       }
> > > +       vq->irq_effective_cpu = best_cpu;
> > > +       per_cpu(vduse_allocated_irq, best_cpu) += 1;
> > > +
> > > +       spin_unlock(&vq->irq_affinity_lock);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static void vduse_vdpa_set_irq_affinity(struct vdpa_device *vdpa,
> > > +                                       struct irq_affinity *desc)
> > > +{
> > > +       struct vduse_dev *dev = vdpa_to_vduse(vdpa);
> > > +       struct irq_affinity_desc *affd = NULL;
> > > +       int i;
> > > +
> > > +       affd = irq_create_affinity_masks(dev->vq_num, desc);
> > > +       if (!affd)
> >
> > Let's add a comment on the vdpa config ops to say set_irq_affinity()
> > is best effort.
> >
>
> OK.
>
> Thanks,
> Yongji
>

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