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2024-03-08net: dqs: add NIC stall detector based on BQLJakub Kicinski1-0/+74
softnet_data->time_squeeze is sometimes used as a proxy for host overload or indication of scheduling problems. In practice this statistic is very noisy and has hard to grasp units - e.g. is 10 squeezes a second to be expected, or high? Delaying network (NAPI) processing leads to drops on NIC queues but also RTT bloat, impacting pacing and CA decisions. Stalls are a little hard to detect on the Rx side, because there may simply have not been any packets received in given period of time. Packet timestamps help a little bit, but again we don't know if packets are stale because we're not keeping up or because someone (*cough* cgroups) disabled IRQs for a long time. We can, however, use Tx as a proxy for Rx stalls. Most drivers use combined Rx+Tx NAPIs so if Tx gets starved so will Rx. On the Tx side we know exactly when packets get queued, and completed, so there is no uncertainty. This patch adds stall checks to BQL. Why BQL? Because it's a convenient place to add such checks, already called by most drivers, and it has copious free space in its structures (this patch adds no extra cache references or dirtying to the fast path). The algorithm takes one parameter - max delay AKA stall threshold and increments a counter whenever NAPI got delayed for at least that amount of time. It also records the length of the longest stall. To be precise every time NAPI has not polled for at least stall thrs we check if there were any Tx packets queued between last NAPI run and now - stall_thrs/2. Unlike the classic Tx watchdog this mechanism does not ignore stalls caused by Tx being disabled, or loss of link. I don't think the check is worth the complexity, and stall is a stall, whether due to host overload, flow control, link down... doesn't matter much to the application. We have been running this detector in production at Meta for 2 years, with the threshold of 8ms. It's the lowest value where false positives become rare. There's still a constant stream of reported stalls (especially without the ksoftirqd deferral patches reverted), those who like their stall metrics to be 0 may prefer higher value. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-10-16lib: dynamic_queue_limits: delete duplicated words + fix typoRandy Dunlap1-2/+2
Drop the repeated word "the". Fix spelling of "excess". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200823040449.25946-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds1-2/+1
Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Highlights: 1) Maintain the TCP retransmit queue using an rbtree, with 1GB windows at 100Gb this really has become necessary. From Eric Dumazet. 2) Multi-program support for cgroup+bpf, from Alexei Starovoitov. 3) Perform broadcast flooding in hardware in mv88e6xxx, from Andrew Lunn. 4) Add meter action support to openvswitch, from Andy Zhou. 5) Add a data meta pointer for BPF accessible packets, from Daniel Borkmann. 6) Namespace-ify almost all TCP sysctl knobs, from Eric Dumazet. 7) Turn on Broadcom Tags in b53 driver, from Florian Fainelli. 8) More work to move the RTNL mutex down, from Florian Westphal. 9) Add 'bpftool' utility, to help with bpf program introspection. From Jakub Kicinski. 10) Add new 'cpumap' type for XDP_REDIRECT action, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer. 11) Support 'blocks' of transformations in the packet scheduler which can span multiple network devices, from Jiri Pirko. 12) TC flower offload support in cxgb4, from Kumar Sanghvi. 13) Priority based stream scheduler for SCTP, from Marcelo Ricardo Leitner. 14) Thunderbolt networking driver, from Amir Levy and Mika Westerberg. 15) Add RED qdisc offloadability, and use it in mlxsw driver. From Nogah Frankel. 16) eBPF based device controller for cgroup v2, from Roman Gushchin. 17) Add some fundamental tracepoints for TCP, from Song Liu. 18) Remove garbage collection from ipv6 route layer, this is a significant accomplishment. From Wei Wang. 19) Add multicast route offload support to mlxsw, from Yotam Gigi" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2177 commits) tcp: highest_sack fix geneve: fix fill_info when link down bpf: fix lockdep splat net: cdc_ncm: GetNtbFormat endian fix openvswitch: meter: fix NULL pointer dereference in ovs_meter_cmd_reply_start netem: remove unnecessary 64 bit modulus netem: use 64 bit divide by rate tcp: Namespace-ify sysctl_tcp_default_congestion_control net: Protect iterations over net::fib_notifier_ops in fib_seq_sum() ipv6: set all.accept_dad to 0 by default uapi: fix linux/tls.h userspace compilation error usbnet: ipheth: prevent TX queue timeouts when device not ready vhost_net: conditionally enable tx polling uapi: fix linux/rxrpc.h userspace compilation errors net: stmmac: fix LPI transitioning for dwmac4 atm: horizon: Fix irq release error net-sysfs: trigger netlink notification on ifalias change via sysfs openvswitch: Using kfree_rcu() to simplify the code openvswitch: Make local function ovs_nsh_key_attr_size() static openvswitch: Fix return value check in ovs_meter_cmd_features() ...
2017-11-07Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to resolve conflictsIngo Molnar1-0/+1
Conflicts: include/linux/compiler-clang.h include/linux/compiler-gcc.h include/linux/compiler-intel.h include/uapi/linux/stddef.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-11-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller1-0/+1
Files removed in 'net-next' had their license header updated in 'net'. We take the remove from 'net-next'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-25locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns ↵Mark Rutland1-1/+1
to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() Please do not apply this to mainline directly, instead please re-run the coccinelle script shown below and apply its output. For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't harmful, and changing them results in churn. However, for some features, the read/write distinction is critical to correct operation. To distinguish these cases, separate read/write accessors must be used. This patch migrates (most) remaining ACCESS_ONCE() instances to {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), using the following coccinelle script: ---- // Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() uses to equivalent READ_ONCE() and // WRITE_ONCE() // $ make coccicheck COCCI=/home/mark/once.cocci SPFLAGS="--include-headers" MODE=patch virtual patch @ depends on patch @ expression E1, E2; @@ - ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2 + WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2) @ depends on patch @ expression E; @@ - ACCESS_ONCE(E) + READ_ONCE(E) ---- Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: shuah@kernel.org Cc: snitzer@redhat.com Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com Cc: tj@kernel.org Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-19-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-19dql: make dql_init return voidStephen Hemminger1-2/+1
dql_init always returned 0, and the only place that uses it in network core code didn't care about the return value anyway. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Hiroaki SHIMODA <shimoda.hiroaki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-13lib/dynamic_queue_limits.c: simplify includesRasmus Villemoes1-2/+2
The file doesn't use anything from ctype.h. Instead of module.h, just use export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL. The latter requires the user to include compiler.h, so do that explicitly instead of relying on some other header pulling it in. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-01bql: Avoid possible inconsistent calculation.Hiroaki SHIMODA1-5/+7
dql->num_queued could change while processing dql_completed(). To provide consistent calculation, added an on stack variable. Signed-off-by: Hiroaki SHIMODA <shimoda.hiroaki@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-01bql: Avoid unneeded limit decrement.Hiroaki SHIMODA1-2/+4
When below pattern is observed, TIME dql_queued() dql_completed() | a) initial state | | b) X bytes queued V c) Y bytes queued d) X bytes completed e) Z bytes queued f) Y bytes completed a) dql->limit has already some value and there is no in-flight packet. b) X bytes queued. c) Y bytes queued and excess limit. d) X bytes completed and dql->prev_ovlimit is set and also dql->prev_num_queued is set Y. e) Z bytes queued. f) Y bytes completed. inprogress and prev_inprogress are true. At f), according to the comment, all_prev_completed becomes true and limit should be increased. But POSDIFF() ignores (completed == dql->prev_num_queued) case, so limit is decreased. Signed-off-by: Hiroaki SHIMODA <shimoda.hiroaki@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-01bql: Fix POSDIFF() to integer overflow aware.Hiroaki SHIMODA1-1/+1
POSDIFF() fails to take into account integer overflow case. Signed-off-by: Hiroaki SHIMODA <shimoda.hiroaki@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-12dql: Fix undefined jiffiesTom Herbert1-0/+1
In some configurations, jiffies may be undefined in lib/dynamic_queue_limits.c. Adding include of jiffies.h to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-29dql: Dynamic queue limitsTom Herbert1-0/+133
Implementation of dynamic queue limits (dql). This is a libary which allows a queue limit to be dynamically managed. The goal of dql is to set the queue limit, number of objects to the queue, to be minimized without allowing the queue to be starved. dql would be used with a queue which has these properties: 1) Objects are queued up to some limit which can be expressed as a count of objects. 2) Periodically a completion process executes which retires consumed objects. 3) Starvation occurs when limit has been reached, all queued data has actually been consumed but completion processing has not yet run, so queuing new data is blocked. 4) Minimizing the amount of queued data is desirable. A canonical example of such a queue would be a NIC HW transmit queue. The queue limit is dynamic, it will increase or decrease over time depending on the workload. The queue limit is recalculated each time completion processing is done. Increases occur when the queue is starved and can exponentially increase over successive intervals. Decreases occur when more data is being maintained in the queue than needed to prevent starvation. The number of extra objects, or "slack", is measured over successive intervals, and to avoid hysteresis the limit is only reduced by the miminum slack seen over a configurable time period. dql API provides routines to manage the queue: - dql_init is called to intialize the dql structure - dql_reset is called to reset dynamic values - dql_queued called when objects are being enqueued - dql_avail returns availability in the queue - dql_completed is called when objects have be consumed in the queue Configuration consists of: - max_limit, maximum limit - min_limit, minimum limit - slack_hold_time, time to measure instances of slack before reducing queue limit Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>