net: sched: fix packet stuck problem for lockless qdisc

Lockless qdisc has below concurrent problem:
    cpu0                 cpu1
     .                     .
q->enqueue                 .
     .                     .
qdisc_run_begin()          .
     .                     .
dequeue_skb()              .
     .                     .
sch_direct_xmit()          .
     .                     .
     .                q->enqueue
     .             qdisc_run_begin()
     .            return and do nothing
     .                     .
qdisc_run_end()            .

cpu1 enqueue a skb without calling __qdisc_run() because cpu0
has not released the lock yet and spin_trylock() return false
for cpu1 in qdisc_run_begin(), and cpu0 do not see the skb
enqueued by cpu1 when calling dequeue_skb() because cpu1 may
enqueue the skb after cpu0 calling dequeue_skb() and before
cpu0 calling qdisc_run_end().

Lockless qdisc has below another concurrent problem when
tx_action is involved:

cpu0(serving tx_action)     cpu1             cpu2
          .                   .                .
          .              q->enqueue            .
          .            qdisc_run_begin()       .
          .              dequeue_skb()         .
          .                   .            q->enqueue
          .                   .                .
          .             sch_direct_xmit()      .
          .                   .         qdisc_run_begin()
          .                   .       return and do nothing
          .                   .                .
 clear __QDISC_STATE_SCHED    .                .
 qdisc_run_begin()            .                .
 return and do nothing        .                .
          .                   .                .
          .            qdisc_run_end()         .

This patch fixes the above data race by:
1. If the first spin_trylock() return false and STATE_MISSED is
   not set, set STATE_MISSED and retry another spin_trylock() in
   case other CPU may not see STATE_MISSED after it releases the
   lock.
2. reschedule if STATE_MISSED is set after the lock is released
   at the end of qdisc_run_end().

For tx_action case, STATE_MISSED is also set when cpu1 is at the
end if qdisc_run_end(), so tx_action will be rescheduled again
to dequeue the skb enqueued by cpu2.

Clear STATE_MISSED before retrying a dequeuing when dequeuing
returns NULL in order to reduce the overhead of the second
spin_trylock() and __netif_schedule() calling.

Also clear the STATE_MISSED before calling __netif_schedule()
at the end of qdisc_run_end() to avoid doing another round of
dequeuing in the pfifo_fast_dequeue().

The performance impact of this patch, tested using pktgen and
dummy netdev with pfifo_fast qdisc attached:

 threads  without+this_patch   with+this_patch      delta
    1        2.61Mpps            2.60Mpps           -0.3%
    2        3.97Mpps            3.82Mpps           -3.7%
    4        5.62Mpps            5.59Mpps           -0.5%
    8        2.78Mpps            2.77Mpps           -0.3%
   16        2.22Mpps            2.22Mpps           -0.0%

Fixes: 6b3ba9146fe6 ("net: sched: allow qdiscs to handle locking")
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h
index f7a6e14491fb..1e625519ae96 100644
--- a/include/net/sch_generic.h
+++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ struct qdisc_rate_table {
 enum qdisc_state_t {
 	__QDISC_STATE_SCHED,
 	__QDISC_STATE_DEACTIVATED,
+	__QDISC_STATE_MISSED,
 };
 
 struct qdisc_size_table {
@@ -159,8 +160,33 @@ static inline bool qdisc_is_empty(const struct Qdisc *qdisc)
 static inline bool qdisc_run_begin(struct Qdisc *qdisc)
 {
 	if (qdisc->flags & TCQ_F_NOLOCK) {
+		if (spin_trylock(&qdisc->seqlock))
+			goto nolock_empty;
+
+		/* If the MISSED flag is set, it means other thread has
+		 * set the MISSED flag before second spin_trylock(), so
+		 * we can return false here to avoid multi cpus doing
+		 * the set_bit() and second spin_trylock() concurrently.
+		 */
+		if (test_bit(__QDISC_STATE_MISSED, &qdisc->state))
+			return false;
+
+		/* Set the MISSED flag before the second spin_trylock(),
+		 * if the second spin_trylock() return false, it means
+		 * other cpu holding the lock will do dequeuing for us
+		 * or it will see the MISSED flag set after releasing
+		 * lock and reschedule the net_tx_action() to do the
+		 * dequeuing.
+		 */
+		set_bit(__QDISC_STATE_MISSED, &qdisc->state);
+
+		/* Retry again in case other CPU may not see the new flag
+		 * after it releases the lock at the end of qdisc_run_end().
+		 */
 		if (!spin_trylock(&qdisc->seqlock))
 			return false;
+
+nolock_empty:
 		WRITE_ONCE(qdisc->empty, false);
 	} else if (qdisc_is_running(qdisc)) {
 		return false;
@@ -176,8 +202,15 @@ static inline bool qdisc_run_begin(struct Qdisc *qdisc)
 static inline void qdisc_run_end(struct Qdisc *qdisc)
 {
 	write_seqcount_end(&qdisc->running);
-	if (qdisc->flags & TCQ_F_NOLOCK)
+	if (qdisc->flags & TCQ_F_NOLOCK) {
 		spin_unlock(&qdisc->seqlock);
+
+		if (unlikely(test_bit(__QDISC_STATE_MISSED,
+				      &qdisc->state))) {
+			clear_bit(__QDISC_STATE_MISSED, &qdisc->state);
+			__netif_schedule(qdisc);
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 static inline bool qdisc_may_bulk(const struct Qdisc *qdisc)