hw/net/spapr_llan: Delay flushing of the RX queue while adding new RX buffers

Currently, the spapr-vlan device is trying to flush the RX queue
after each RX buffer that has been added by the guest via the
H_ADD_LOGICAL_LAN_BUFFER hypercall. In case the receive buffer pool
was empty before, we only pass single packets to the guest this
way. This can cause very bad performance if a sender is trying
to stream fragmented UDP packets to the guest. For example when
using the UDP_STREAM test from netperf with UDP packets that are
much bigger than the MTU size, almost all UDP packets are dropped
in the guest since the chances are quite high that at least one of
the fragments got lost on the way.

When flushing the receive queue, it's much better if we'd have
a bunch of receive buffers available already, so that fragmented
packets can be passed to the guest in one go. To do this, the
spapr_vlan_receive() function should return 0 instead of -1 if there
are no more receive buffers available, so that receive_disabled = 1
gets temporarily set for the receive queue, and we have to delay
the queue flushing at the end of h_add_logical_lan_buffer() a little
bit by using a timer, so that the guest gets a chance to add multiple
RX buffers before we flush the queue again.

This improves the UDP_STREAM test with the spapr-vlan device a lot:
Running
 netserver -p 44444 -L <guestip> -f -D -4
in the guest, and
 netperf -p 44444 -L <hostip> -H <guestip> -t UDP_STREAM -l 60 -- -m 16384
in the host, I get the following values _without_ this patch:

Socket  Message  Elapsed      Messages
Size    Size     Time         Okay Errors   Throughput
bytes   bytes    secs            #      #   10^6bits/sec

229376   16384   60.00     1738970      0    3798.83
229376           60.00          23              0.05

That "0.05" means that almost all UDP packets got lost/discarded
at the receiving side.
With this patch applied, the value look much better:

Socket  Message  Elapsed      Messages
Size    Size     Time         Okay Errors   Throughput
bytes   bytes    secs            #      #   10^6bits/sec

229376   16384   60.00     1789104      0    3908.35
229376           60.00       22818             49.85

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/hw/net/spapr_llan.c b/hw/net/spapr_llan.c
index a8266f8ec7..36a9214128 100644
--- a/hw/net/spapr_llan.c
+++ b/hw/net/spapr_llan.c
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ typedef struct VIOsPAPRVLANDevice {
     hwaddr buf_list;
     uint32_t add_buf_ptr, use_buf_ptr, rx_bufs;
     hwaddr rxq_ptr;
+    QEMUTimer *rxp_timer;
     uint32_t compat_flags;             /* Compatability flags for migration */
     RxBufPool *rx_pool[RX_MAX_POOLS];  /* Receive buffer descriptor pools */
 } VIOsPAPRVLANDevice;
@@ -206,7 +207,7 @@ static ssize_t spapr_vlan_receive(NetClientState *nc, const uint8_t *buf,
     }
 
     if (!dev->rx_bufs) {
-        return -1;
+        return 0;
     }
 
     if (dev->compat_flags & SPAPRVLAN_FLAG_RX_BUF_POOLS) {
@@ -215,7 +216,7 @@ static ssize_t spapr_vlan_receive(NetClientState *nc, const uint8_t *buf,
         bd = spapr_vlan_get_rx_bd_from_page(dev, size);
     }
     if (!bd) {
-        return -1;
+        return 0;
     }
 
     dev->rx_bufs--;
@@ -266,6 +267,13 @@ static NetClientInfo net_spapr_vlan_info = {
     .receive = spapr_vlan_receive,
 };
 
+static void spapr_vlan_flush_rx_queue(void *opaque)
+{
+    VIOsPAPRVLANDevice *dev = opaque;
+
+    qemu_flush_queued_packets(qemu_get_queue(dev->nic));
+}
+
 static void spapr_vlan_reset_rx_pool(RxBufPool *rxp)
 {
     /*
@@ -302,6 +310,9 @@ static void spapr_vlan_realize(VIOsPAPRDevice *sdev, Error **errp)
     dev->nic = qemu_new_nic(&net_spapr_vlan_info, &dev->nicconf,
                             object_get_typename(OBJECT(sdev)), sdev->qdev.id, dev);
     qemu_format_nic_info_str(qemu_get_queue(dev->nic), dev->nicconf.macaddr.a);
+
+    dev->rxp_timer = timer_new_us(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL, spapr_vlan_flush_rx_queue,
+                                  dev);
 }
 
 static void spapr_vlan_instance_init(Object *obj)
@@ -332,6 +343,11 @@ static void spapr_vlan_instance_finalize(Object *obj)
             dev->rx_pool[i] = NULL;
         }
     }
+
+    if (dev->rxp_timer) {
+        timer_del(dev->rxp_timer);
+        timer_free(dev->rxp_timer);
+    }
 }
 
 void spapr_vlan_create(VIOsPAPRBus *bus, NICInfo *nd)
@@ -629,7 +645,13 @@ static target_ulong h_add_logical_lan_buffer(PowerPCCPU *cpu,
 
     dev->rx_bufs++;
 
-    qemu_flush_queued_packets(qemu_get_queue(dev->nic));
+    /*
+     * Give guest some more time to add additional RX buffers before we
+     * flush the receive queue, so that e.g. fragmented IP packets can
+     * be passed to the guest in one go later (instead of passing single
+     * fragments if there is only one receive buffer available).
+     */
+    timer_mod(dev->rxp_timer, qemu_clock_get_us(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL) + 500);
 
     return H_SUCCESS;
 }