On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 11:25 PM Hawkins Jiawei <yin31...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 在 2023/7/19 20:44, Lei Yang 写道:
> > Hello Hawkins and Michael
> >
> > Looks like there are big changes about vp_vdpa, therefore, if needed,
> > QE can test this series in QE's environment before the patch is
>
> Hi Lei,
>
> This patch series does not modify the code of vp_vdpa. Instead, it only
> modifies how QEMU sends SVQ control commands to the vdpa device.
>
Hi Hawkins

> Considering that the behavior of the vp_vdpa device differs from that
> of real vdpa hardware, would it be possible for you to test this patch
> series on a real vdpa device?

Yes, there is a hardware device to test it , I will update the test
results ASAP.

BR
Lei
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> > merged, and provide the result.
> >
> > BR
> > Lei
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 8:37 PM Hawkins Jiawei <yin31...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 在 2023/7/19 17:11, Michael S. Tsirkin 写道:
> >>> On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 03:53:45PM +0800, Hawkins Jiawei wrote:
> >>>> This patchset allows QEMU to delay polling and checking the device
> >>>> used buffer until either the SVQ is full or control commands shadow
> >>>> buffers are full, instead of polling and checking immediately after
> >>>> sending each SVQ control command, so that QEMU can send all the SVQ
> >>>> control commands in parallel, which have better performance improvement.
> >>>>
> >>>> I use vp_vdpa device to simulate vdpa device, and create 4094 VLANS in
> >>>> guest to build a test environment for sending multiple CVQ state load
> >>>> commands. This patch series can improve latency from 10023 us to
> >>>> 8697 us for about 4099 CVQ state load commands, about 0.32 us per 
> >>>> command.
> >>>
> >>> Looks like a tiny improvement.
> >>> At the same time we have O(n^2) behaviour with memory mappings.
> >>
> >> Hi Michael,
> >>
> >> Thanks for your review.
> >>
> >> I wonder why you say "we have O(n^2) behaviour on memory mappings" here?
> >>
> >>   From my understanding, QEMU maps two page-size buffers as control
> >> commands shadow buffers at device startup. These buffers then are used
> >> to cache SVQ control commands, where QEMU fills them with multiple SVQ 
> >> control
> >> commands bytes, flushes them when SVQ descriptors are full or these
> >> control commands shadow buffers reach their capacity.
> >>
> >> QEMU repeats this process until all CVQ state load commands have been
> >> sent in loading.
> >>
> >> In this loading process, only control commands shadow buffers
> >> translation should be relative to memory mappings, which should be
> >> O(log n) behaviour to my understanding(Please correct me if I am wrong).
> >>
> >>> Not saying we must not do this but I think it's worth
> >>> checking where the bottleneck is. My guess would be
> >>> vp_vdpa is not doing things in parallel. Want to try fixing that
> >>
> >> As for "vp_vdpa is not doing things in parallel.", do you mean
> >> the vp_vdpa device cannot process QEMU's SVQ control commands
> >> in parallel?
> >>
> >> In this situation, I will try to use real vdpa hardware to
> >> test the patch series performance.
> >>
> >>> to see how far it can be pushed?
> >>
> >> Currently, I am involved in the "Add virtio-net Control Virtqueue state
> >> restore support" project in Google Summer of Code now. Because I am
> >> uncertain about the time it will take to fix that problem in the vp_vdpa
> >> device, I prefer to complete the gsoc project first.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Note that this patch should be based on
> >>>> patch "Vhost-vdpa Shadow Virtqueue VLAN support" at [1].
> >>>>
> >>>> [1]. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-07/msg03719.html
> >>>>
> >>>> TestStep
> >>>> ========
> >>>> 1. regression testing using vp-vdpa device
> >>>>     - For L0 guest, boot QEMU with two virtio-net-pci net device with
> >>>> `ctrl_vq`, `ctrl_rx`, `ctrl_rx_extra` features on, command line like:
> >>>>         -device virtio-net-pci,disable-legacy=on,disable-modern=off,
> >>>> iommu_platform=on,mq=on,ctrl_vq=on,guest_announce=off,
> >>>> indirect_desc=off,queue_reset=off,ctrl_rx=on,ctrl_rx_extra=on,...
> >>>>
> >>>>     - For L1 guest, apply the patch series and compile the source code,
> >>>> start QEMU with two vdpa device with svq mode on, enable the `ctrl_vq`,
> >>>> `ctrl_rx`, `ctrl_rx_extra` features on, command line like:
> >>>>         -netdev type=vhost-vdpa,x-svq=true,...
> >>>>         -device virtio-net-pci,mq=on,guest_announce=off,ctrl_vq=on,
> >>>> ctrl_rx=on,ctrl_rx_extra=on...
> >>>>
> >>>>     - For L2 source guest, run the following bash command:
> >>>> ```bash
> >>>> #!/bin/sh
> >>>>
> >>>> for idx1 in {0..9}
> >>>> do
> >>>>     for idx2 in {0..9}
> >>>>     do
> >>>>       for idx3 in {0..6}
> >>>>       do
> >>>>         ip link add macvlan$idx1$idx2$idx3 link eth0
> >>>> address 4a:30:10:19:$idx1$idx2:1$idx3 type macvlan mode bridge
> >>>>         ip link set macvlan$idx1$idx2$idx3 up
> >>>>       done
> >>>>     done
> >>>> done
> >>>> ```
> >>>>     - Execute the live migration in L2 source monitor
> >>>>
> >>>>     - Result
> >>>>       * with this series, QEMU should not trigger any error or warning.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 2. perf using vp-vdpa device
> >>>>     - For L0 guest, boot QEMU with two virtio-net-pci net device with
> >>>> `ctrl_vq`, `ctrl_vlan` features on, command line like:
> >>>>         -device virtio-net-pci,disable-legacy=on,disable-modern=off,
> >>>> iommu_platform=on,mq=on,ctrl_vq=on,guest_announce=off,
> >>>> indirect_desc=off,queue_reset=off,ctrl_vlan=on,...
> >>>>
> >>>>     - For L1 guest, apply the patch series, then apply an addtional
> >>>> patch to record the load time in microseconds as following:
> >>>> ```diff
> >>>> diff --git a/hw/net/vhost_net.c b/hw/net/vhost_net.c
> >>>> index 6b958d6363..501b510fd2 100644
> >>>> --- a/hw/net/vhost_net.c
> >>>> +++ b/hw/net/vhost_net.c
> >>>> @@ -295,7 +295,10 @@ static int vhost_net_start_one(struct vhost_net 
> >>>> *net,
> >>>>        }
> >>>>
> >>>>        if (net->nc->info->load) {
> >>>> +        int64_t start_us = g_get_monotonic_time();
> >>>>            r = net->nc->info->load(net->nc);
> >>>> +        error_report("vhost_vdpa_net_load() = %ld us",
> >>>> +                     g_get_monotonic_time() - start_us);
> >>>>            if (r < 0) {
> >>>>                goto fail;
> >>>>            }
> >>>> ```
> >>>>
> >>>>     - For L1 guest, compile the code, and start QEMU with two vdpa device
> >>>> with svq mode on, enable the `ctrl_vq`, `ctrl_vlan` features on,
> >>>> command line like:
> >>>>         -netdev type=vhost-vdpa,x-svq=true,...
> >>>>         -device virtio-net-pci,mq=on,guest_announce=off,ctrl_vq=on,
> >>>> ctrl_vlan=on...
> >>>>
> >>>>     - For L2 source guest, run the following bash command:
> >>>> ```bash
> >>>> #!/bin/sh
> >>>>
> >>>> for idx in {1..4094}
> >>>> do
> >>>>     ip link add link eth0 name vlan$idx type vlan id $idx
> >>>> done
> >>>> ```
> >>>>
> >>>>     - wait for some time, then execute the live migration in L2 source 
> >>>> monitor
> >>>>
> >>>>     - Result
> >>>>       * with this series, QEMU should not trigger any warning
> >>>> or error except something like "vhost_vdpa_net_load() = 8697 us"
> >>>>       * without this series, QEMU should not trigger any warning
> >>>> or error except something like "vhost_vdpa_net_load() = 10023 us"
> >>>>
> >>>> ChangeLog
> >>>> =========
> >>>> v3:
> >>>>     - refactor vhost_svq_poll() to accept cmds_in_flight
> >>>> suggested by Jason and Eugenio
> >>>>     - refactor vhost_vdpa_net_cvq_add() to make control commands buffers
> >>>> is not tied to `s->cvq_cmd_out_buffer` and `s->status`, so we can reuse
> >>>> it suggested by Eugenio
> >>>>     - poll and check when SVQ is full or control commands shadow buffers 
> >>>> is
> >>>> full
> >>>>
> >>>> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1683371965.git.yin31...@gmail.com/
> >>>>     - recover accidentally deleted rows
> >>>>     - remove extra newline
> >>>>     - refactor `need_poll_len` to `cmds_in_flight`
> >>>>     - return -EINVAL when vhost_svq_poll() return 0 or check
> >>>> on buffers written by device fails
> >>>>     - change the type of `in_cursor`, and refactor the
> >>>> code for updating cursor
> >>>>     - return directly when vhost_vdpa_net_load_{mac,mq}()
> >>>> returns a failure in vhost_vdpa_net_load()
> >>>>
> >>>> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1681732982.git.yin31...@gmail.com/
> >>>>
> >>>> Hawkins Jiawei (8):
> >>>>     vhost: Add argument to vhost_svq_poll()
> >>>>     vdpa: Use iovec for vhost_vdpa_net_cvq_add()
> >>>>     vhost: Expose vhost_svq_available_slots()
> >>>>     vdpa: Avoid using vhost_vdpa_net_load_*() outside
> >>>>       vhost_vdpa_net_load()
> >>>>     vdpa: Check device ack in vhost_vdpa_net_load_rx_mode()
> >>>>     vdpa: Move vhost_svq_poll() to the caller of vhost_vdpa_net_cvq_add()
> >>>>     vdpa: Add cursors to vhost_vdpa_net_loadx()
> >>>>     vdpa: Send cvq state load commands in parallel
> >>>>
> >>>>    hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c |  38 ++--
> >>>>    hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.h |   3 +-
> >>>>    net/vhost-vdpa.c                   | 354 ++++++++++++++++++-----------
> >>>>    3 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> 2.25.1
> >>>
> >>
> >
>


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