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2017-05-18ptr_ring: introduce batch dequeuingJason Wang1-0/+65
This patch introduce a batched version of consuming, consumer can dequeue more than one pointers from the ring at a time. We don't care about the reorder of reading here so no need for compiler barrier. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-05-18ptr_ring: add ptr_ring_unconsumeMichael S. Tsirkin1-0/+55
Applications that consume a batch of entries in one go can benefit from ability to return some of them back into the ring. Add an API for that - assuming there's space. If there's no space naturally can't do this and have to drop entries, but this implies ring is full so we'd likely drop some anyway. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-05-09ptr_ring: batch ring zeroingMichael S. Tsirkin1-9/+54
A known weakness in ptr_ring design is that it does not handle well the situation when ring is almost full: as entries are consumed they are immediately used again by the producer, so consumer and producer are writing to a shared cache line. To fix this, add batching to consume calls: as entries are consumed do not write NULL into the ring until we get a multiple (in current implementation 2x) of cache lines away from the producer. At that point, write them all out. We do the write out in the reverse order to keep producer from sharing cache with consumer for as long as possible. Writeout also triggers when ring wraps around - there's no special reason to do this but it helps keep the code a bit simpler. What should we do if getting away from producer by 2 cache lines would mean we are keeping the ring moe than half empty? Maybe we should reduce the batching in this case, current patch simply reduces the batching. Notes: - it is no longer true that a call to consume guarantees that the following call to produce will succeed. No users seem to assume that. - batching can also in theory reduce the signalling rate: users that would previously send interrups to the producer to wake it up after consuming each entry would now only need to do this once in a batch. Doing this would be easy by returning a flag to the caller. No users seem to do signalling on consume yet so this was not implemented yet. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2017-02-20ptr_ring: fix race conditions when resizingMichael S. Tsirkin1-5/+31
Resizing currently drops consumer lock. This can cause entries to be reordered, which isn't good in itself. More importantly, consumer can detect a false ring empty condition and block forever. Further, nesting of consumer within producer lock is problematic for tun, since it produces entries in a BH, which causes a lock order reversal: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- consume: lock(&(&r->consumer_lock)->rlock); resize: local_irq_disable(); lock(&(&r->producer_lock)->rlock); lock(&(&r->consumer_lock)->rlock); <Interrupt> produce: lock(&(&r->producer_lock)->rlock); To fix, nest producer lock within consumer lock during resize, and keep consumer lock during the whole swap operation. Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-01ptr_ring: support resizing multiple queuesMichael S. Tsirkin1-9/+62
Sometimes, we need support resizing multiple queues at once. This is because it was not easy to recover to recover from a partial failure of multiple queues resizing. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-01ptr_ring: support zero length ringJason Wang1-2/+4
Sometimes, we need zero length ring. But current code will crash since we don't do any check before accessing the ring. This patch fixes this. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-15ptr_ring: resize supportMichael S. Tsirkin1-14/+143
This adds ring resize support. Seems to be necessary as users such as tun allow userspace control over queue size. If resize is used, this costs us ability to peek at queue without consumer lock - should not be a big deal as peek and consumer are usually run on the same CPU. If ring is made bigger, ring contents is preserved. If ring is made smaller, extra pointers are passed to an optional destructor callback. Cleanup function also gains destructor callback such that all pointers in queue can be cleaned up. This changes some APIs but we don't have any users yet, so it won't break bisect. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-15ptr_ring: array based FIFO for pointersMichael S. Tsirkin1-0/+264
A simple array based FIFO of pointers. Intended for net stack which commonly has a single consumer/producer. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>