Subject: Re: [PATCH net] virtio-net: suppress bad irq warning for tx napi

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:08:16 -0400

OK I started looking at this again. My idea is simple.
A. disable callbacks before we try to drain skbs
B. actually do disable callbacks even with event idx

To make B not regress, we need to
C. detect the common case of disable after event triggering and skip the write then.

I added a new event_triggered flag for that.
Completely untested - but then I could not see the warnings either.
Would be very much interested to know whether this patch helps
resolve the sruprious interrupt problem at all ...

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email-masked]>

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 82e520d2cb12..a91a2d6d1ee3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1429,6 +1429,7 @@ static void virtnet_poll_cleantx(struct receive_queue *rq)
 		return;
 
 	if (__netif_tx_trylock(txq)) {
+		virtqueue_disable_cb(vq);
 		free_old_xmit_skbs(sq, true);
 		__netif_tx_unlock(txq);
 	}
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 71e16b53e9c1..213bfe8b6051 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ struct vring_virtqueue {
 	/* Last used index we've seen. */
 	u16 last_used_idx;
 
+	/* Hint for event idx: already triggered no need to disable. */
+	bool event_triggered;
+
 	union {
 		/* Available for split ring */
 		struct {
@@ -739,7 +742,10 @@ static void virtqueue_disable_cb_split(struct virtqueue *_vq)
 
 	if (!(vq->split.avail_flags_shadow & VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT)) {
 		vq->split.avail_flags_shadow |= VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT;
-		if (!vq->event)
+		if (vq->event)
+			/* TODO: this is a hack. Figure out a cleaner value to write. */
+			vring_used_event(&vq->split.vring) = 0x0;
+		else
 			vq->split.vring.avail->flags =
 				cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev,
 						vq->split.avail_flags_shadow);
@@ -1605,6 +1611,7 @@ static struct virtqueue *vring_create_virtqueue_packed(
 	vq->weak_barriers = weak_barriers;
 	vq->broken = false;
 	vq->last_used_idx = 0;
+	vq->event_triggered = false;
 	vq->num_added = 0;
 	vq->packed_ring = true;
 	vq->use_dma_api = vring_use_dma_api(vdev);
@@ -1919,6 +1926,14 @@ void virtqueue_disable_cb(struct virtqueue *_vq)
 {
 	struct vring_virtqueue *vq = to_vvq(_vq);
 
+	/* If device triggered an event already it won't trigger one again:
+	 * no need to disable.
+	 */
+	if (vq->event_triggered) {
+		vq->event_triggered = false;
+		return;
+	}
+
 	if (vq->packed_ring)
 		virtqueue_disable_cb_packed(_vq);
 	else
@@ -2044,6 +2059,10 @@ irqreturn_t vring_interrupt(int irq, void *_vq)
 	if (unlikely(vq->broken))
 		return IRQ_HANDLED;
 
+	/* Just a hint for performance: so it's ok that this can be racy! */
+	if (vq->event)
+		vq->event_triggered = true;
+
 	pr_debug("virtqueue callback for %p (%p)\n", vq, vq->vq.callback);
 	if (vq->vq.callback)
 		vq->vq.callback(&vq->vq);
@@ -2083,6 +2102,7 @@ struct virtqueue *__vring_new_virtqueue(unsigned int index,
 	vq->weak_barriers = weak_barriers;
 	vq->broken = false;
 	vq->last_used_idx = 0;
+	vq->event_triggered = false;
 	vq->num_added = 0;
 	vq->use_dma_api = vring_use_dma_api(vdev);
 #ifdef DEBUG