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authorVenkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@google.com>2015-11-11 03:21:07 +0300
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2015-12-07 18:28:11 +0300
commitf277ec42f38f406ed073569b24b04f1c291fec0f (patch)
tree60d080a5b9ffec2ad61a8d692158935e2e1f948c /drivers/virtio
parent82107539bbb9db303fb6676c78c836add5680bb0 (diff)
downloadlinux-f277ec42f38f406ed073569b24b04f1c291fec0f.tar.xz
virtio_ring: shadow available ring flags & index
Improves cacheline transfer flow of available ring header. Virtqueues are implemented as a pair of rings, one producer->consumer avail ring and one consumer->producer used ring; preceding the avail ring in memory are two contiguous u16 fields -- avail->flags and avail->idx. A producer posts work by writing to avail->idx and a consumer reads avail->idx. The flags and idx fields only need to be written by a producer CPU and only read by a consumer CPU; when the producer and consumer are running on different CPUs and the virtio_ring code is structured to only have source writes/sink reads, we can continuously transfer the avail header cacheline between 'M' states between cores. This flow optimizes core -> core bandwidth on certain CPUs. (see: "Software Optimization Guide for AMD Family 15h Processors", Section 11.6; similar language appears in the 10h guide and should apply to CPUs w/ exclusive caches, using LLC as a transfer cache) Unfortunately the existing virtio_ring code issued reads to the avail->idx and read-modify-writes to avail->flags on the producer. This change shadows the flags and index fields in producer memory; the vring code now reads from the shadows and only ever writes to avail->flags and avail->idx, allowing the cacheline to transfer core -> core optimally. In a concurrent version of vring_bench, the time required for 10,000,000 buffer checkout/returns was reduced by ~2% (average across many runs) on an AMD Piledriver (15h) CPU: (w/o shadowing): Performance counter stats for './vring_bench': 5,451,082,016 L1-dcache-loads ... 2.221477739 seconds time elapsed (w/ shadowing): Performance counter stats for './vring_bench': 5,405,701,361 L1-dcache-loads ... 2.168405376 seconds time elapsed The further away (in a NUMA sense) virtio producers and consumers are from each other, the more we expect to benefit. Physical implementations of virtio devices and implementations of virtio where the consumer polls vring avail indexes (vhost) should also benefit. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@google.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/virtio')
-rw-r--r--drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c46
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index abdb341887f5..ee663c458b20 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ struct vring_virtqueue {
/* Last used index we've seen. */
u16 last_used_idx;
+ /* Last written value to avail->flags */
+ u16 avail_flags_shadow;
+
+ /* Last written value to avail->idx in guest byte order */
+ u16 avail_idx_shadow;
+
/* How to notify other side. FIXME: commonalize hcalls! */
bool (*notify)(struct virtqueue *vq);
@@ -235,13 +241,14 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add(struct virtqueue *_vq,
/* Put entry in available array (but don't update avail->idx until they
* do sync). */
- avail = virtio16_to_cpu(_vq->vdev, vq->vring.avail->idx) & (vq->vring.num - 1);
+ avail = vq->avail_idx_shadow & (vq->vring.num - 1);
vq->vring.avail->ring[avail] = cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, head);
/* Descriptors and available array need to be set before we expose the
* new available array entries. */
virtio_wmb(vq->weak_barriers);
- vq->vring.avail->idx = cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, virtio16_to_cpu(_vq->vdev, vq->vring.avail->idx) + 1);
+ vq->avail_idx_shadow++;
+ vq->vring.avail->idx = cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, vq->avail_idx_shadow);
vq->num_added++;
pr_debug("Added buffer head %i to %p\n", head, vq);
@@ -354,8 +361,8 @@ bool virtqueue_kick_prepare(struct virtqueue *_vq)
* event. */
virtio_mb(vq->weak_barriers);
- old = virtio16_to_cpu(_vq->vdev, vq->vring.avail->idx) - vq->num_added;
- new = virtio16_to_cpu(_vq->vdev, vq->vring.avail->idx);
+ old = vq->avail_idx_shadow - vq->num_added;
+ new = vq->avail_idx_shadow;
vq->num_added = 0;
#ifdef DEBUG
@@ -510,7 +517,7 @@ void *virtqueue_get_buf(struct virtqueue *_vq, unsigned int *len)
/* If we expect an interrupt for the next entry, tell host
* by writing event index and flush out the write before
* the read in the next get_buf call. */
- if (!(vq->vring.avail->flags & cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT))) {
+ if (!(vq->avail_flags_shadow & VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT)) {
vring_used_event(&vq->vring) = cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, vq->last_used_idx);
virtio_mb(vq->weak_barriers);
}
@@ -537,7 +544,11 @@ void virtqueue_disable_cb(struct virtqueue *_vq)
{
struct vring_virtqueue *vq = to_vvq(_vq);
- vq->vring.avail->flags |= cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT);
+ if (!(vq->avail_flags_shadow & VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT)) {
+ vq->avail_flags_shadow |= VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT;
+ vq->vring.avail->flags = cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, vq->avail_flags_shadow);
+ }
+
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtqueue_disable_cb);
@@ -565,7 +576,10 @@ unsigned virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare(struct virtqueue *_vq)
/* Depending on the VIRTIO_RING_F_EVENT_IDX feature, we need to
* either clear the flags bit or point the event index at the next
* entry. Always do both to keep code simple. */
- vq->vring.avail->flags &= cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, ~VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT);
+ if (vq->avail_flags_shadow & VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT) {
+ vq->avail_flags_shadow &= ~VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT;
+ vq->vring.avail->flags = cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, vq->avail_flags_shadow);
+ }
vring_used_event(&vq->vring) = cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, last_used_idx = vq->last_used_idx);
END_USE(vq);
return last_used_idx;
@@ -633,9 +647,12 @@ bool virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed(struct virtqueue *_vq)
/* Depending on the VIRTIO_RING_F_USED_EVENT_IDX feature, we need to
* either clear the flags bit or point the event index at the next
* entry. Always do both to keep code simple. */
- vq->vring.avail->flags &= cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, ~VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT);
+ if (vq->avail_flags_shadow & VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT) {
+ vq->avail_flags_shadow &= ~VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT;
+ vq->vring.avail->flags = cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, vq->avail_flags_shadow);
+ }
/* TODO: tune this threshold */
- bufs = (u16)(virtio16_to_cpu(_vq->vdev, vq->vring.avail->idx) - vq->last_used_idx) * 3 / 4;
+ bufs = (u16)(vq->avail_idx_shadow - vq->last_used_idx) * 3 / 4;
vring_used_event(&vq->vring) = cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, vq->last_used_idx + bufs);
virtio_mb(vq->weak_barriers);
if (unlikely((u16)(virtio16_to_cpu(_vq->vdev, vq->vring.used->idx) - vq->last_used_idx) > bufs)) {
@@ -670,7 +687,8 @@ void *virtqueue_detach_unused_buf(struct virtqueue *_vq)
/* detach_buf clears data, so grab it now. */
buf = vq->data[i];
detach_buf(vq, i);
- vq->vring.avail->idx = cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, virtio16_to_cpu(_vq->vdev, vq->vring.avail->idx) - 1);
+ vq->avail_idx_shadow--;
+ vq->vring.avail->idx = cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, vq->avail_idx_shadow);
END_USE(vq);
return buf;
}
@@ -735,6 +753,8 @@ struct virtqueue *vring_new_virtqueue(unsigned int index,
vq->weak_barriers = weak_barriers;
vq->broken = false;
vq->last_used_idx = 0;
+ vq->avail_flags_shadow = 0;
+ vq->avail_idx_shadow = 0;
vq->num_added = 0;
list_add_tail(&vq->vq.list, &vdev->vqs);
#ifdef DEBUG
@@ -746,8 +766,10 @@ struct virtqueue *vring_new_virtqueue(unsigned int index,
vq->event = virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_RING_F_EVENT_IDX);
/* No callback? Tell other side not to bother us. */
- if (!callback)
- vq->vring.avail->flags |= cpu_to_virtio16(vdev, VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT);
+ if (!callback) {
+ vq->avail_flags_shadow |= VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT;
+ vq->vring.avail->flags = cpu_to_virtio16(vdev, vq->avail_flags_shadow);
+ }
/* Put everything in free lists. */
vq->free_head = 0;