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author | Jo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org> | 2012-04-16 15:04:45 +0000 |
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committer | Jo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org> | 2012-04-16 15:04:45 +0000 |
commit | d68e2222406451eed59f229f821d7d7cb1ba14da (patch) | |
tree | d04c3618fe4856ec98246882012fb90357beae2d /target/linux/generic/patches-3.2/130-pppoatm-queue-depth.patch | |
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Fix bufferbloat in PPPoATM TX queue
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@31313 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
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diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-3.2/130-pppoatm-queue-depth.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.2/130-pppoatm-queue-depth.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d95ddf65f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.2/130-pppoatm-queue-depth.patch @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +From 9d02daf754238adac48fa075ee79e7edd3d79ed3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> +Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 09:55:43 +0000 +Subject: [PATCH] pppoatm: Fix excessive queue bloat + +We discovered that PPPoATM has an excessively deep transmit queue. A +queue the size of the default socket send buffer (wmem_default) is +maintained between the PPP generic core and the ATM device. + +Fix it to queue a maximum of *two* packets. The one the ATM device is +currently working on, and one more for the ATM driver to process +immediately in its TX done interrupt handler. The PPP core is designed +to feed packets to the channel with minimal latency, so that really +ought to be enough to keep the ATM device busy. + +While we're at it, fix the fact that we were triggering the wakeup +tasklet on *every* pppoatm_pop() call. The comment saying "this is +inefficient, but doing it right is too hard" turns out to be overly +pessimistic... I think :) + +On machines like the Traverse Geos, with a slow Geode CPU and two +high-speed ADSL2+ interfaces, there were reports of extremely high CPU +usage which could partly be attributed to the extra wakeups. + +(The wakeup handling could actually be made a whole lot easier if we + stop checking sk->sk_sndbuf altogether. Given that we now only queue + *two* packets ever, one wonders what the point is. As it is, you could + already deadlock the thing by setting the sk_sndbuf to a value lower + than the MTU of the device, and it'd just block for ever.) + +Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> +Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> +--- + net/atm/pppoatm.c | 95 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- + 1 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) + +diff --git a/net/atm/pppoatm.c b/net/atm/pppoatm.c +index 614d3fc..ce1e59f 100644 +--- a/net/atm/pppoatm.c ++++ b/net/atm/pppoatm.c +@@ -62,12 +62,25 @@ struct pppoatm_vcc { + void (*old_pop)(struct atm_vcc *, struct sk_buff *); + /* keep old push/pop for detaching */ + enum pppoatm_encaps encaps; ++ atomic_t inflight; ++ unsigned long blocked; + int flags; /* SC_COMP_PROT - compress protocol */ + struct ppp_channel chan; /* interface to generic ppp layer */ + struct tasklet_struct wakeup_tasklet; + }; + + /* ++ * We want to allow two packets in the queue. The one that's currently in ++ * flight, and *one* queued up ready for the ATM device to send immediately ++ * from its TX done IRQ. We want to be able to use atomic_inc_not_zero(), so ++ * inflight == -2 represents an empty queue, -1 one packet, and zero means ++ * there are two packets in the queue. ++ */ ++#define NONE_INFLIGHT -2 ++ ++#define BLOCKED 0 ++ ++/* + * Header used for LLC Encapsulated PPP (4 bytes) followed by the LCP protocol + * ID (0xC021) used in autodetection + */ +@@ -102,16 +115,30 @@ static void pppoatm_wakeup_sender(unsigned long arg) + static void pppoatm_pop(struct atm_vcc *atmvcc, struct sk_buff *skb) + { + struct pppoatm_vcc *pvcc = atmvcc_to_pvcc(atmvcc); ++ + pvcc->old_pop(atmvcc, skb); ++ atomic_dec(&pvcc->inflight); ++ + /* +- * We don't really always want to do this since it's +- * really inefficient - it would be much better if we could +- * test if we had actually throttled the generic layer. +- * Unfortunately then there would be a nasty SMP race where +- * we could clear that flag just as we refuse another packet. +- * For now we do the safe thing. ++ * We always used to run the wakeup tasklet unconditionally here, for ++ * fear of race conditions where we clear the BLOCKED flag just as we ++ * refuse another packet in pppoatm_send(). This was quite inefficient. ++ * ++ * In fact it's OK. The PPP core will only ever call pppoatm_send() ++ * while holding the channel->downl lock. And ppp_output_wakeup() as ++ * called by the tasklet will *also* grab that lock. So even if another ++ * CPU is in pppoatm_send() right now, the tasklet isn't going to race ++ * with it. The wakeup *will* happen after the other CPU is safely out ++ * of pppoatm_send() again. ++ * ++ * So if the CPU in pppoatm_send() has already set the BLOCKED bit and ++ * it about to return, that's fine. We trigger a wakeup which will ++ * happen later. And if the CPU in pppoatm_send() *hasn't* set the ++ * BLOCKED bit yet, that's fine too because of the double check in ++ * pppoatm_may_send() which is commented there. + */ +- tasklet_schedule(&pvcc->wakeup_tasklet); ++ if (test_and_clear_bit(BLOCKED, &pvcc->blocked)) ++ tasklet_schedule(&pvcc->wakeup_tasklet); + } + + /* +@@ -184,6 +211,51 @@ error: + ppp_input_error(&pvcc->chan, 0); + } + ++static inline int pppoatm_may_send(struct pppoatm_vcc *pvcc, int size) ++{ ++ /* ++ * It's not clear that we need to bother with using atm_may_send() ++ * to check we don't exceed sk->sk_sndbuf. If userspace sets a ++ * value of sk_sndbuf which is lower than the MTU, we're going to ++ * block for ever. But the code always did that before we introduced ++ * the packet count limit, so... ++ */ ++ if (atm_may_send(pvcc->atmvcc, size) && ++ atomic_inc_not_zero_hint(&pvcc->inflight, NONE_INFLIGHT)) ++ return 1; ++ ++ /* ++ * We use test_and_set_bit() rather than set_bit() here because ++ * we need to ensure there's a memory barrier after it. The bit ++ * *must* be set before we do the atomic_inc() on pvcc->inflight. ++ * There's no smp_mb__after_set_bit(), so it's this or abuse ++ * smp_mb__after_clear_bit(). ++ */ ++ test_and_set_bit(BLOCKED, &pvcc->blocked); ++ ++ /* ++ * We may have raced with pppoatm_pop(). If it ran for the ++ * last packet in the queue, *just* before we set the BLOCKED ++ * bit, then it might never run again and the channel could ++ * remain permanently blocked. Cope with that race by checking ++ * *again*. If it did run in that window, we'll have space on ++ * the queue now and can return success. It's harmless to leave ++ * the BLOCKED flag set, since it's only used as a trigger to ++ * run the wakeup tasklet. Another wakeup will never hurt. ++ * If pppoatm_pop() is running but hasn't got as far as making ++ * space on the queue yet, then it hasn't checked the BLOCKED ++ * flag yet either, so we're safe in that case too. It'll issue ++ * an "immediate" wakeup... where "immediate" actually involves ++ * taking the PPP channel's ->downl lock, which is held by the ++ * code path that calls pppoatm_send(), and is thus going to ++ * wait for us to finish. ++ */ ++ if (atm_may_send(pvcc->atmvcc, size) && ++ atomic_inc_not_zero(&pvcc->inflight)) ++ return 1; ++ ++ return 0; ++} + /* + * Called by the ppp_generic.c to send a packet - returns true if packet + * was accepted. If we return false, then it's our job to call +@@ -207,7 +279,7 @@ static int pppoatm_send(struct ppp_channel *chan, struct sk_buff *skb) + struct sk_buff *n; + n = skb_realloc_headroom(skb, LLC_LEN); + if (n != NULL && +- !atm_may_send(pvcc->atmvcc, n->truesize)) { ++ !pppoatm_may_send(pvcc, n->truesize)) { + kfree_skb(n); + goto nospace; + } +@@ -215,12 +287,12 @@ static int pppoatm_send(struct ppp_channel *chan, struct sk_buff *skb) + skb = n; + if (skb == NULL) + return DROP_PACKET; +- } else if (!atm_may_send(pvcc->atmvcc, skb->truesize)) ++ } else if (!pppoatm_may_send(pvcc, skb->truesize)) + goto nospace; + memcpy(skb_push(skb, LLC_LEN), pppllc, LLC_LEN); + break; + case e_vc: +- if (!atm_may_send(pvcc->atmvcc, skb->truesize)) ++ if (!pppoatm_may_send(pvcc, skb->truesize)) + goto nospace; + break; + case e_autodetect: +@@ -285,6 +357,9 @@ static int pppoatm_assign_vcc(struct atm_vcc *atmvcc, void __user *arg) + if (pvcc == NULL) + return -ENOMEM; + pvcc->atmvcc = atmvcc; ++ ++ /* Maximum is zero, so that we can use atomic_inc_not_zero() */ ++ atomic_set(&pvcc->inflight, NONE_INFLIGHT); + pvcc->old_push = atmvcc->push; + pvcc->old_pop = atmvcc->pop; + pvcc->encaps = (enum pppoatm_encaps) be.encaps; +-- +1.7.7.6 + |