Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] KVM: Kick resamplefd for split kernel irqchip

[Alex Williamson]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:50:41 -0400
Peter Xu <address@hidden> wrote:

> This is majorly only for X86 because that's the only one that supports
> split irqchip for now.
> 
> When the irqchip is split, we face a dilemma that KVM irqfd will be
> enabled, however the slow irqchip is still running in the userspace.
> It means that the resamplefd in the kernel irqfds won't take any
> effect and it will miss to ack INTx interrupts on EOIs.
> 
> One example is split irqchip with VFIO INTx, which will break if we
> use the VFIO INTx fast path.
> 
> This patch can potentially supports the VFIO fast path again for INTx,
> that the IRQ delivery will still use the fast path, while we don't
> need to trap MMIOs in QEMU for the device to emulate the EIOs (see the
> callers of vfio_eoi() hook).  However the EOI of the INTx will still
> need to be done from the userspace by caching all the resamplefds in
> QEMU and kick properly for IOAPIC EOI broadcast.
> 
> This is tricky because in this case the userspace ioapic irr &
> remote-irr will be bypassed.  However such a change will greatly boost
> performance for assigned devices using INTx irqs (TCP_RR boosts 46%
> after this patch applied).
> 
> When the userspace is responsible for the resamplefd kickup, don't
> register it on the kvm_irqfd anymore, because on newer kernels (after
> commit 654f1f13ea56, 5.2+) the KVM_IRQFD will fail if with both split
> irqchip and resamplefd.  This will make sure that the fast path will
> work for all supported kernels.
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10738541/#22609933
> 
> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
> ---
>  accel/kvm/kvm-all.c    | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  accel/kvm/trace-events |  1 +
>  hw/intc/ioapic.c       | 25 +++++++++++--
>  include/sysemu/kvm.h   |  4 +++
>  4 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
> index d49b74512a..9a85fd1b8f 100644
> --- a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
> +++ b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
> @@ -159,9 +159,59 @@ static const KVMCapabilityInfo 
> kvm_required_capabilites[] = {
>  static NotifierList kvm_irqchip_change_notifiers =
>      NOTIFIER_LIST_INITIALIZER(kvm_irqchip_change_notifiers);
>  
> +struct KVMResampleFd {
> +    int gsi;
> +    EventNotifier *resample_event;
> +    QLIST_ENTRY(KVMResampleFd) node;
> +};
> +typedef struct KVMResampleFd KVMResampleFd;
> +
> +/*
> + * Only used with split irqchip where we need to do the resample fd
> + * kick for the kernel from userspace.
> + */
> +static QLIST_HEAD(, KVMResampleFd) kvm_resample_fd_list =
> +    QLIST_HEAD_INITIALIZER(kvm_resample_fd_list);
> +
>  #define kvm_slots_lock(kml)      qemu_mutex_lock(&(kml)->slots_lock)
>  #define kvm_slots_unlock(kml)    qemu_mutex_unlock(&(kml)->slots_lock)
>  
> +static inline void kvm_resample_fd_remove(int gsi)
> +{
> +    KVMResampleFd *rfd;
> +
> +    QLIST_FOREACH(rfd, &kvm_resample_fd_list, node) {
> +        if (rfd->gsi == gsi) {
> +            QLIST_REMOVE(rfd, node);
> +            g_free(rfd);
> +            break;
> +        }
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +static inline void kvm_resample_fd_insert(int gsi, EventNotifier *event)
> +{
> +    KVMResampleFd *rfd = g_new0(KVMResampleFd, 1);
> +
> +    rfd->gsi = gsi;
> +    rfd->resample_event = event;
> +
> +    QLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&kvm_resample_fd_list, rfd, node);
> +}
> +
> +void kvm_resample_fd_notify(int gsi)
> +{
> +    KVMResampleFd *rfd;
> +
> +    QLIST_FOREACH(rfd, &kvm_resample_fd_list, node) {
> +        if (rfd->gsi == gsi) {
> +            event_notifier_set(rfd->resample_event);
> +            trace_kvm_resample_fd_notify(gsi);
> +            return;
> +        }
> +    }
> +}
> +
>  int kvm_get_max_memslots(void)
>  {
>      KVMState *s = KVM_STATE(current_accel());
> @@ -1642,8 +1692,33 @@ static int kvm_irqchip_assign_irqfd(KVMState *s, 
> EventNotifier *event,
>      };
>  
>      if (rfd != -1) {
> -        irqfd.flags |= KVM_IRQFD_FLAG_RESAMPLE;
> -        irqfd.resamplefd = rfd;
> +        assert(assign);
> +        if (kvm_irqchip_is_split()) {
> +            /*
> +             * When the slow irqchip (e.g. IOAPIC) is in the
> +             * userspace, KVM kernel resamplefd will not work because
> +             * the EOI of the interrupt will be delivered to userspace
> +             * instead, so the KVM kernel resamplefd kick will be
> +             * skipped.  The userspace here mimics what the kernel
> +             * provides with resamplefd, remember the resamplefd and
> +             * kick it when we receive EOI of this IRQ.
> +             *
> +             * This is hackery because IOAPIC is mostly bypassed
> +             * (except EOI broadcasts) when irqfd is used.  However
> +             * this can bring much performance back for split irqchip
> +             * with INTx IRQs (for VFIO, this gives 93% perf of the
> +             * full fast path, which is 46% perf boost comparing to
> +             * the INTx slow path).
> +             */
> +            kvm_resample_fd_insert(virq, resample);
> +        } else {
> +            irqfd.flags |= KVM_IRQFD_FLAG_RESAMPLE;
> +            irqfd.resamplefd = rfd;
> +        }
> +    } else if (!assign) {
> +        if (kvm_irqchip_is_split()) {
> +            kvm_resample_fd_remove(virq);
> +        }
>      }
>  
>      if (!kvm_irqfds_enabled()) {
> diff --git a/accel/kvm/trace-events b/accel/kvm/trace-events
> index 4fb6e59d19..a68eb66534 100644
> --- a/accel/kvm/trace-events
> +++ b/accel/kvm/trace-events
> @@ -16,4 +16,5 @@ kvm_set_ioeventfd_mmio(int fd, uint64_t addr, uint32_t val, 
> bool assign, uint32_
>  kvm_set_ioeventfd_pio(int fd, uint16_t addr, uint32_t val, bool assign, 
> uint32_t size, bool datamatch) "fd: %d @0x%x val=0x%x assign: %d size: %d 
> match: %d"
>  kvm_set_user_memory(uint32_t slot, uint32_t flags, uint64_t guest_phys_addr, 
> uint64_t memory_size, uint64_t userspace_addr, int ret) "Slot#%d flags=0x%x 
> gpa=0x%"PRIx64 " size=0x%"PRIx64 " ua=0x%"PRIx64 " ret=%d"
>  kvm_clear_dirty_log(uint32_t slot, uint64_t start, uint32_t size) 
> "slot#%"PRId32" start 0x%"PRIx64" size 0x%"PRIx32
> +kvm_resample_fd_notify(int gsi) "gsi %d"
>  
> diff --git a/hw/intc/ioapic.c b/hw/intc/ioapic.c
> index 15747fe2c2..81a17cc2b8 100644
> --- a/hw/intc/ioapic.c
> +++ b/hw/intc/ioapic.c
> @@ -236,8 +236,29 @@ void ioapic_eoi_broadcast(int vector)
>          for (n = 0; n < IOAPIC_NUM_PINS; n++) {
>              entry = s->ioredtbl[n];
>  
> -            if ((entry & IOAPIC_VECTOR_MASK) != vector ||
> -                ((entry >> IOAPIC_LVT_TRIGGER_MODE_SHIFT) & 1) != 
> IOAPIC_TRIGGER_LEVEL) {
> +            if ((entry & IOAPIC_VECTOR_MASK) != vector) {
> +                continue;
> +            }
> +
> +            /*
> +             * When IOAPIC is in the userspace while APIC is still in
> +             * the kernel (i.e., split irqchip), we have a trick to
> +             * kick the resamplefd logic for registered irqfds from
> +             * userspace to deactivate the IRQ.  When that happens, it
> +             * means the irq bypassed userspace IOAPIC (so the irr and
> +             * remote-irr of the table entry should be bypassed too
> +             * even if interrupt come).  Still kick the resamplefds if
> +             * they're bound to the IRQ, to make sure to EOI the
> +             * interrupt for the hardware correctly.
> +             *
> +             * Note: We still need to go through the irr & remote-irr
> +             * operations below because we don't know whether there're
> +             * emulated devices that are using/sharing the same IRQ.
> +             */
> +            kvm_resample_fd_notify(n);
> +
> +            if (((entry >> IOAPIC_LVT_TRIGGER_MODE_SHIFT) & 1) !=
> +                IOAPIC_TRIGGER_LEVEL) {
>                  continue;
>              }
>  

What's the logic for sending resampler notifies before testing if the
ioapic entry is in level triggered mode?  vfio won't use this for
anything other than level triggered.  Inserting it between these checks
confused me and in my testing wasn't necessary.  Thanks,

Alex

> diff --git a/include/sysemu/kvm.h b/include/sysemu/kvm.h
> index 141342de98..583a976f8a 100644
> --- a/include/sysemu/kvm.h
> +++ b/include/sysemu/kvm.h
> @@ -555,4 +555,8 @@ int kvm_set_one_reg(CPUState *cs, uint64_t id, void 
> *source);
>  int kvm_get_one_reg(CPUState *cs, uint64_t id, void *target);
>  struct ppc_radix_page_info *kvm_get_radix_page_info(void);
>  int kvm_get_max_memslots(void);
> +
> +/* Notify resamplefd for EOI of specific interrupts. */
> +void kvm_resample_fd_notify(int gsi);
> +
>  #endif