Il 07/05/2014 18:24, Ming Lei ha scritto:
On Tue, 06 May 2014 15:17:15 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> wrote:

Il 06/05/2014 11:26, Ming Lei ha scritto:
Hi Paolo and All,

One question is about ACCESS_ONCE() in virtscsi_pick_vq(),
looks it needn't since both reading and writing tgt->req_vq holds
tgt->tgt_lock.

You're right.  It should be possible to avoid the lock in
virtscsi_pick_vq like this:

        value = atomic_read(&tgt->reqs);
retry:
        if (value != 0) {
                old_value = atomic_cmpxchg(&tgt->regs, value, value + 1)
                if (old_value != value) {
                        value = old_value;
                        goto retry;
                }

                smp_mb__after_atomic_cmpxchg(); // you get the idea :)
                vq = ACCESS_ONCE(tgt->req_vq);
        } else {
                spin_lock_irqsave(&tgt->tgt_lock, flags);

                // tgt->reqs may not be 0 anymore, need to recheck
                value = atomic_read(&tgt->reqs);
                if (atomic_read(&tgt->reqs) != 0) {
                        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tgt->tgt_lock, flags);
                        goto retry;
                }

                // tgt->reqs now will remain fixed to 0.
                ...
                tgt->req_vq = vq = ...;
                smp_wmb();
                atomic_set(&tgt->reqs, 1);
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tgt->tgt_lock, flags);
        }

        return vq;


Another approach I thought of is to use percpu spinlock, and
the idea is simple:

        - all perpcu locks are held for writing req_vq, and
        - only percpu lock is needed for reading req_vq.

What do you think about the below patch?

Per-CPU spinlocks have bad scalability problems, especially if you're overcommitting. Writing req_vq is not at all rare.

Paolo

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
index 697fa53..00deab4 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ struct virtio_scsi_vq {
  */
 struct virtio_scsi_target_state {
        /* This spinlock never held at the same time as vq_lock. */
-       spinlock_t tgt_lock;
+       spinlock_t __percpu *lock;

        /* Count of outstanding requests. */
        atomic_t reqs;
@@ -517,21 +517,46 @@ static struct virtio_scsi_vq *virtscsi_pick_vq(struct 
virtio_scsi *vscsi,
 {
        struct virtio_scsi_vq *vq;
        unsigned long flags;
-       u32 queue_num;
+       u32 cpu = get_cpu();
+       spinlock_t      *lock = per_cpu_ptr(tgt->lock, cpu);

-       spin_lock_irqsave(&tgt->tgt_lock, flags);
+       spin_lock_irqsave(lock, flags);

        if (atomic_inc_return(&tgt->reqs) > 1)
                vq = tgt->req_vq;
        else {
-               queue_num = smp_processor_id();
+               u32 queue_num = cpu;
+               int i;
+
                while (unlikely(queue_num >= vscsi->num_queues))
                        queue_num -= vscsi->num_queues;

-               tgt->req_vq = vq = &vscsi->req_vqs[queue_num];
+               /*
+                * there should be only one writing because of atomic
+                * counter, so we don't worry about deadlock, but
+                * might need to teach lockdep to not complain it
+                */
+               for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
+                       spinlock_t *other = per_cpu_ptr(tgt->lock, i);
+                       if (i != cpu)
+                               spin_lock(other);
+               }
+
+               /* only update req_vq when reqs is one*/
+               if (atomic_read(&tgt->reqs) == 1)
+                       tgt->req_vq = vq = &vscsi->req_vqs[queue_num];
+               else
+                       vq = tgt->req_vq;
+
+               for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
+                       spinlock_t *other = per_cpu_ptr(tgt->lock, i);
+                       if (i != cpu)
+                               spin_unlock(other);
+               }
        }

-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tgt->tgt_lock, flags);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags);
+       put_cpu();
        return vq;
 }

@@ -618,10 +643,22 @@ static int virtscsi_target_alloc(struct scsi_target 
*starget)
 {
        struct virtio_scsi_target_state *tgt =
                                kmalloc(sizeof(*tgt), GFP_KERNEL);
+       int i;
+
        if (!tgt)
                return -ENOMEM;

-       spin_lock_init(&tgt->tgt_lock);
+       tgt->lock = alloc_percpu(spinlock_t);
+       if (!tgt->lock) {
+               kfree(tgt);
+               return -ENOMEM;
+       }
+
+       for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
+               spinlock_t *lock = per_cpu_ptr(tgt->lock, i);
+               spin_lock_init(lock);
+       }
+
        atomic_set(&tgt->reqs, 0);
        tgt->req_vq = NULL;

@@ -632,6 +669,7 @@ static int virtscsi_target_alloc(struct scsi_target 
*starget)
 static void virtscsi_target_destroy(struct scsi_target *starget)
 {
        struct virtio_scsi_target_state *tgt = starget->hostdata;
+       free_percpu(tgt->lock);
        kfree(tgt);
 }


Thanks,


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