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[ovs-dev,v3] netdev-dpdk: Trigger port reconfiguration in main thread for resets.

Message ID 20240118161500.4126409-1-david.marchand@redhat.com
State Accepted
Commit 3eb91a8d1b9ad8afb396e57fd2797ea9c2bc0bb9
Delegated to: Ilya Maximets
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Series [ovs-dev,v3] netdev-dpdk: Trigger port reconfiguration in main thread for resets. | expand

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David Marchand Jan. 18, 2024, 4:15 p.m. UTC
When OVS (main thread) configures a DPDK netdev, it holds a netdev_dpdk
mutex lock.
As part of this configure operation, the net/iavf driver (used with i40e
VF devices) triggers a queue count change. The PF entity (serviced by a
kernel PF driver for example) handles this change and requests back that
the VF driver resets the VF device. The driver then completes the VF reset
operation on its side and waits for completion of the iavf-event thread
responsible for handling various VF device events.

On the other hand, handling of the VF reset request in this iavf-event
thread results in notifying the application with a port reset request
(RTE_ETH_EVENT_INTR_RESET). The OVS reset callback tries to take a hold
of the same netdev_dpdk mutex and blocks the iavf-event thread.

As a resut, the net/iavf driver (still running on OVS main thread) is
unable to complete as it is waiting for iavf-event to complete.

To break from this situation, the OVS reset callback now won't take a
netdev_dpdk mutex. Instead, the port reset request is stored in a simple
RTE_ETH_MAXPORTS array associated to a seq object.
This is enough to let the VF driver complete this port initialisation.
The OVS main thread later handles the port reset request.

More details in the DPDK upstream bz as this issue appeared following a
change in DPDK.

Link: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1337
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
---
Changes since v2:
- fixed build with clang,
- fixed indentation,
- updated NEWS,

Changes since v1:
- converted to atomic accesses on netdev_dpdk_pending_reset[],

---
 NEWS              |  7 -----
 lib/netdev-dpdk.c | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

Comments

Simon Horman Jan. 19, 2024, 12:30 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 05:15:00PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> When OVS (main thread) configures a DPDK netdev, it holds a netdev_dpdk
> mutex lock.
> As part of this configure operation, the net/iavf driver (used with i40e
> VF devices) triggers a queue count change. The PF entity (serviced by a
> kernel PF driver for example) handles this change and requests back that
> the VF driver resets the VF device. The driver then completes the VF reset
> operation on its side and waits for completion of the iavf-event thread
> responsible for handling various VF device events.
> 
> On the other hand, handling of the VF reset request in this iavf-event
> thread results in notifying the application with a port reset request
> (RTE_ETH_EVENT_INTR_RESET). The OVS reset callback tries to take a hold
> of the same netdev_dpdk mutex and blocks the iavf-event thread.
> 
> As a resut, the net/iavf driver (still running on OVS main thread) is
> unable to complete as it is waiting for iavf-event to complete.
> 
> To break from this situation, the OVS reset callback now won't take a
> netdev_dpdk mutex. Instead, the port reset request is stored in a simple
> RTE_ETH_MAXPORTS array associated to a seq object.
> This is enough to let the VF driver complete this port initialisation.
> The OVS main thread later handles the port reset request.
> 
> More details in the DPDK upstream bz as this issue appeared following a
> change in DPDK.
> 
> Link: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1337
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>

For the record:

We seem to have a situation with unreliable test results
not related to this patch.

To that end the automated workflow run failed [1].
However, I did get a successful run in my own repository [2].

[1] https://github.com/ovsrobot/ovs/actions/runs/7573251006
[2] https://github.com/horms/ovs/actions/runs/7581284248
Ilya Maximets Jan. 19, 2024, 1 p.m. UTC | #2
On 1/18/24 17:15, David Marchand wrote:
> When OVS (main thread) configures a DPDK netdev, it holds a netdev_dpdk
> mutex lock.
> As part of this configure operation, the net/iavf driver (used with i40e
> VF devices) triggers a queue count change. The PF entity (serviced by a
> kernel PF driver for example) handles this change and requests back that
> the VF driver resets the VF device. The driver then completes the VF reset
> operation on its side and waits for completion of the iavf-event thread
> responsible for handling various VF device events.
> 
> On the other hand, handling of the VF reset request in this iavf-event
> thread results in notifying the application with a port reset request
> (RTE_ETH_EVENT_INTR_RESET). The OVS reset callback tries to take a hold
> of the same netdev_dpdk mutex and blocks the iavf-event thread.
> 
> As a resut, the net/iavf driver (still running on OVS main thread) is
> unable to complete as it is waiting for iavf-event to complete.
> 
> To break from this situation, the OVS reset callback now won't take a
> netdev_dpdk mutex. Instead, the port reset request is stored in a simple
> RTE_ETH_MAXPORTS array associated to a seq object.
> This is enough to let the VF driver complete this port initialisation.
> The OVS main thread later handles the port reset request.
> 
> More details in the DPDK upstream bz as this issue appeared following a
> change in DPDK.
> 
> Link: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1337
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> ---
> Changes since v2:
> - fixed build with clang,
> - fixed indentation,
> - updated NEWS,
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - converted to atomic accesses on netdev_dpdk_pending_reset[],
> 
> ---
>  NEWS              |  7 -----
>  lib/netdev-dpdk.c | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  2 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

Thanks, David!

Applied and backported to branch-3.3.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2153b48053..a6617546c6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -54,13 +54,6 @@  v3.3.0 - xx xxx xxxx
    - Support for multicast snooping to show the protocol responsible for
      adding/updating the entry.
 
-Known issues:
-   - DPDK: v23.11 has a change in behavior in handling i40e VF devices. This
-     may block and prevent OVS from adding such devices as ports in a netdev
-     datapath bridge.
-     For the details, see https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1337 which
-     describes the issue first detected in the 21.11 LTS branch.
-
 
 v3.2.0 - 17 Aug 2023
 --------------------
diff --git a/lib/netdev-dpdk.c b/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
index fb26825ff8..45f61930d4 100644
--- a/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
+++ b/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ 
 #include "openvswitch/match.h"
 #include "openvswitch/ofp-parse.h"
 #include "openvswitch/ofp-print.h"
+#include "openvswitch/poll-loop.h"
 #include "openvswitch/shash.h"
 #include "openvswitch/vlog.h"
 #include "ovs-numa.h"
@@ -2101,32 +2102,73 @@  netdev_dpdk_process_devargs(struct netdev_dpdk *dev,
     return new_port_id;
 }
 
+static struct seq *netdev_dpdk_reset_seq;
+static uint64_t netdev_dpdk_last_reset_seq;
+static atomic_bool netdev_dpdk_pending_reset[RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS];
+
+static void
+netdev_dpdk_wait(const struct netdev_class *netdev_class OVS_UNUSED)
+{
+    uint64_t last_reset_seq = seq_read(netdev_dpdk_reset_seq);
+
+    if (netdev_dpdk_last_reset_seq == last_reset_seq) {
+        seq_wait(netdev_dpdk_reset_seq, netdev_dpdk_last_reset_seq);
+    } else {
+        poll_immediate_wake();
+    }
+}
+
+static void
+netdev_dpdk_run(const struct netdev_class *netdev_class OVS_UNUSED)
+{
+    uint64_t reset_seq = seq_read(netdev_dpdk_reset_seq);
+
+    if (reset_seq != netdev_dpdk_last_reset_seq) {
+        dpdk_port_t port_id;
+
+        netdev_dpdk_last_reset_seq = reset_seq;
+
+        for (port_id = 0; port_id < RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS; port_id++) {
+            struct netdev_dpdk *dev;
+            bool pending_reset;
+
+            atomic_read_relaxed(&netdev_dpdk_pending_reset[port_id],
+                                &pending_reset);
+            if (!pending_reset) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            atomic_store_relaxed(&netdev_dpdk_pending_reset[port_id], false);
+
+            ovs_mutex_lock(&dpdk_mutex);
+            dev = netdev_dpdk_lookup_by_port_id(port_id);
+            if (dev) {
+                ovs_mutex_lock(&dev->mutex);
+                dev->reset_needed = true;
+                netdev_request_reconfigure(&dev->up);
+                VLOG_DBG_RL(&rl, "%s: Device reset requested.",
+                            netdev_get_name(&dev->up));
+                ovs_mutex_unlock(&dev->mutex);
+            }
+            ovs_mutex_unlock(&dpdk_mutex);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 static int
 dpdk_eth_event_callback(dpdk_port_t port_id, enum rte_eth_event_type type,
                         void *param OVS_UNUSED, void *ret_param OVS_UNUSED)
 {
-    struct netdev_dpdk *dev;
-
     switch ((int) type) {
     case RTE_ETH_EVENT_INTR_RESET:
-        ovs_mutex_lock(&dpdk_mutex);
-        dev = netdev_dpdk_lookup_by_port_id(port_id);
-        if (dev) {
-            ovs_mutex_lock(&dev->mutex);
-            dev->reset_needed = true;
-            netdev_request_reconfigure(&dev->up);
-            VLOG_DBG_RL(&rl, "%s: Device reset requested.",
-                        netdev_get_name(&dev->up));
-            ovs_mutex_unlock(&dev->mutex);
-        }
-        ovs_mutex_unlock(&dpdk_mutex);
+        atomic_store_relaxed(&netdev_dpdk_pending_reset[port_id], true);
+        seq_change(netdev_dpdk_reset_seq);
         break;
 
     default:
         /* Ignore all other types. */
         break;
-   }
-   return 0;
+    }
+    return 0;
 }
 
 static void
@@ -5001,6 +5043,8 @@  netdev_dpdk_class_init(void)
                                  "[netdev]", 0, 1,
                                  netdev_dpdk_get_mempool_info, NULL);
 
+        netdev_dpdk_reset_seq = seq_create();
+        netdev_dpdk_last_reset_seq = seq_read(netdev_dpdk_reset_seq);
         ret = rte_eth_dev_callback_register(RTE_ETH_ALL,
                                             RTE_ETH_EVENT_INTR_RESET,
                                             dpdk_eth_event_callback, NULL);
@@ -6593,6 +6637,8 @@  parse_vhost_config(const struct smap *ovs_other_config)
 #define NETDEV_DPDK_CLASS_BASE                          \
     NETDEV_DPDK_CLASS_COMMON,                           \
     .init = netdev_dpdk_class_init,                     \
+    .run = netdev_dpdk_run,                             \
+    .wait = netdev_dpdk_wait,                           \
     .destruct = netdev_dpdk_destruct,                   \
     .set_tx_multiq = netdev_dpdk_set_tx_multiq,         \
     .get_carrier = netdev_dpdk_get_carrier,             \