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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2020-04-22 09:13:27 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-04-23 12:43:20 -0700
commit6f8b12d661d09b488b9ac879b8eafbd2cc4a1450 (patch)
treeb5ef6f687bc70ecdffd8c9ce39b3daf7f11214ba
parente6acd2b6e84bf61fef42f99fe3d117fe75701629 (diff)
net: napi: add hard irqs deferral feature
Back in commit 3b47d30396ba ("net: gro: add a per device gro flush timer") we added the ability to arm one high resolution timer, that we used to keep not-complete packets in GRO engine a bit longer, hoping that further frames might be added to them. Since then, we added the napi_complete_done() interface, and commit 364b6055738b ("net: busy-poll: return busypolling status to drivers") allowed drivers to avoid re-arming NIC interrupts if we made a promise that their NAPI poll() handler would be called in the near future. This infrastructure can be leveraged, thanks to a new device parameter, which allows to arm the napi hrtimer, instead of re-arming the device hard IRQ. We have noticed that on some servers with 32 RX queues or more, the chit-chat between the NIC and the host caused by IRQ delivery and re-arming could hurt throughput by ~20% on 100Gbit NIC. In contrast, hrtimers are using local (percpu) resources and might have lower cost. The new tunable, named napi_defer_hard_irqs, is placed in the same hierarchy than gro_flush_timeout (/sys/class/net/ethX/) By default, both gro_flush_timeout and napi_defer_hard_irqs are zero. This patch does not change the prior behavior of gro_flush_timeout if used alone : NIC hard irqs should be rearmed as before. One concrete usage can be : echo 20000 >/sys/class/net/eth1/gro_flush_timeout echo 10 >/sys/class/net/eth1/napi_defer_hard_irqs If at least one packet is retired, then we will reset napi counter to 10 (napi_defer_hard_irqs), ensuring at least 10 periodic scans of the queue. On busy queues, this should avoid NIC hard IRQ, while before this patch IRQ avoidance was only possible if napi->poll() was exhausting its budget and not call napi_complete_done(). This feature also can be used to work around some non-optimal NIC irq coalescing strategies. Having the ability to insert XX usec delays between each napi->poll() can increase cache efficiency, since we increase batch sizes. It also keeps serving cpus not idle too long, reducing tail latencies. Co-developed-by: Luigi Rizzo <lrizzo@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h2
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c29
-rw-r--r--net/core/net-sysfs.c18
3 files changed, 38 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 0750b54b3765..5a8d40f1ffe2 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ struct napi_struct {
unsigned long state;
int weight;
+ int defer_hard_irqs_count;
unsigned long gro_bitmask;
int (*poll)(struct napi_struct *, int);
#ifdef CONFIG_NETPOLL
@@ -1995,6 +1996,7 @@ struct net_device {
struct bpf_prog __rcu *xdp_prog;
unsigned long gro_flush_timeout;
+ int napi_defer_hard_irqs;
rx_handler_func_t __rcu *rx_handler;
void __rcu *rx_handler_data;
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index fb61522b1ce1..67585484ad32 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6227,7 +6227,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__napi_schedule_irqoff);
bool napi_complete_done(struct napi_struct *n, int work_done)
{
- unsigned long flags, val, new;
+ unsigned long flags, val, new, timeout = 0;
+ bool ret = true;
/*
* 1) Don't let napi dequeue from the cpu poll list
@@ -6239,20 +6240,23 @@ bool napi_complete_done(struct napi_struct *n, int work_done)
NAPIF_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL)))
return false;
- if (n->gro_bitmask) {
- unsigned long timeout = 0;
-
- if (work_done)
+ if (work_done) {
+ if (n->gro_bitmask)
timeout = n->dev->gro_flush_timeout;
-
+ n->defer_hard_irqs_count = n->dev->napi_defer_hard_irqs;
+ }
+ if (n->defer_hard_irqs_count > 0) {
+ n->defer_hard_irqs_count--;
+ timeout = n->dev->gro_flush_timeout;
+ if (timeout)
+ ret = false;
+ }
+ if (n->gro_bitmask) {
/* When the NAPI instance uses a timeout and keeps postponing
* it, we need to bound somehow the time packets are kept in
* the GRO layer
*/
napi_gro_flush(n, !!timeout);
- if (timeout)
- hrtimer_start(&n->timer, ns_to_ktime(timeout),
- HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED);
}
gro_normal_list(n);
@@ -6284,7 +6288,10 @@ bool napi_complete_done(struct napi_struct *n, int work_done)
return false;
}
- return true;
+ if (timeout)
+ hrtimer_start(&n->timer, ns_to_ktime(timeout),
+ HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED);
+ return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(napi_complete_done);
@@ -6464,7 +6471,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart napi_watchdog(struct hrtimer *timer)
/* Note : we use a relaxed variant of napi_schedule_prep() not setting
* NAPI_STATE_MISSED, since we do not react to a device IRQ.
*/
- if (napi->gro_bitmask && !napi_disable_pending(napi) &&
+ if (!napi_disable_pending(napi) &&
!test_and_set_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &napi->state))
__napi_schedule_irqoff(napi);
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index 0d9e46de205e..f3b650cd0923 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -382,6 +382,23 @@ static ssize_t gro_flush_timeout_store(struct device *dev,
}
NETDEVICE_SHOW_RW(gro_flush_timeout, fmt_ulong);
+static int change_napi_defer_hard_irqs(struct net_device *dev, unsigned long val)
+{
+ dev->napi_defer_hard_irqs = val;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static ssize_t napi_defer_hard_irqs_store(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr,
+ const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+ if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+ return -EPERM;
+
+ return netdev_store(dev, attr, buf, len, change_napi_defer_hard_irqs);
+}
+NETDEVICE_SHOW_RW(napi_defer_hard_irqs, fmt_dec);
+
static ssize_t ifalias_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t len)
{
@@ -545,6 +562,7 @@ static struct attribute *net_class_attrs[] __ro_after_init = {
&dev_attr_flags.attr,
&dev_attr_tx_queue_len.attr,
&dev_attr_gro_flush_timeout.attr,
+ &dev_attr_napi_defer_hard_irqs.attr,
&dev_attr_phys_port_id.attr,
&dev_attr_phys_port_name.attr,
&dev_attr_phys_switch_id.attr,