Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752681AbdLAHLN (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2017 02:11:13 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54614 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752498AbdLAHLM (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2017 02:11:12 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] vhost: fix skb leak in handle_rx() To: wexu@redhat.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mst@redhat.com, mjrosato@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <1512107669-27572-1-git-send-email-wexu@redhat.com> <1512107669-27572-2-git-send-email-wexu@redhat.com> From: Jason Wang Message-ID: <09e75683-4c49-7446-e13e-93b316ed270c@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 15:11:05 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1512107669-27572-2-git-send-email-wexu@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.30]); Fri, 01 Dec 2017 07:11:12 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2637 Lines: 69 On 2017年12月01日 13:54, wexu@redhat.com wrote: > From: Wei Xu > > Matthew found a roughly 40% tcp throughput regression with commit > c67df11f(vhost_net: try batch dequing from skb array) as discussed > in the following thread: > https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg187936.html > > Eventually we figured out that it was a skb leak in handle_rx() > when sending packets to the VM. This usually happens when a guest > can not drain out vq as fast as vhost fills in, afterwards it sets > off the traffic jam and leaks skb(s) which occurs as no headcount > to send on the vq from vhost side. > > This can be avoided by making sure we have got enough headcount > before actually consuming a skb from the batched rx array while > transmitting, which is simply done by moving checking the zero > headcount a bit ahead. > > Signed-off-by: Wei Xu > Reported-by: Matthew Rosato > --- > drivers/vhost/net.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c > index 8d626d7..c7bdeb6 100644 > --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c > +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c > @@ -778,16 +778,6 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net) > /* On error, stop handling until the next kick. */ > if (unlikely(headcount < 0)) > goto out; > - if (nvq->rx_array) > - msg.msg_control = vhost_net_buf_consume(&nvq->rxq); > - /* On overrun, truncate and discard */ > - if (unlikely(headcount > UIO_MAXIOV)) { > - iov_iter_init(&msg.msg_iter, READ, vq->iov, 1, 1); > - err = sock->ops->recvmsg(sock, &msg, > - 1, MSG_DONTWAIT | MSG_TRUNC); > - pr_debug("Discarded rx packet: len %zd\n", sock_len); > - continue; > - } > /* OK, now we need to know about added descriptors. */ > if (!headcount) { > if (unlikely(vhost_enable_notify(&net->dev, vq))) { > @@ -800,6 +790,16 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net) > * they refilled. */ > goto out; > } > + if (nvq->rx_array) > + msg.msg_control = vhost_net_buf_consume(&nvq->rxq); > + /* On overrun, truncate and discard */ > + if (unlikely(headcount > UIO_MAXIOV)) { > + iov_iter_init(&msg.msg_iter, READ, vq->iov, 1, 1); > + err = sock->ops->recvmsg(sock, &msg, > + 1, MSG_DONTWAIT | MSG_TRUNC); > + pr_debug("Discarded rx packet: len %zd\n", sock_len); > + continue; > + } > /* We don't need to be notified again. */ > iov_iter_init(&msg.msg_iter, READ, vq->iov, in, vhost_len); > fixup = msg.msg_iter; I suggest to reorder this patch to 3/3. Thanks