virtio-net: allow increasing rx queue size

This allows increasing the rx queue size up to 1024: unlike with tx,
guests don't put in huge S/G lists into RX so the risk of running into
the max 1024 limitation due to some off-by-one seems small.

It's helpful for users like OVS-DPDK which don't do any buffering on the
host - 1K roughly matches 500 entries in tun + 256 in the current rx
queue, which seems to work reasonably well. We could probably make do
with ~750 entries but virtio spec limits us to powers of two.
It might be a good idea to specify an s/g size limit in a future
version.

It also might be possible to make the queue size smaller down the road, 64
seems like the minimal value which will still work (as guests seem to
assume a queue full of 1.5K buffers is enough to process the largest
incoming packet, which is ~64K).  No one actually asked for this, and
with virtio 1 guests can reduce ring size without need for host
configuration, so don't bother with this for now.

Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Patrik Hermansson <phermansson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/hw/net/virtio-net.c b/hw/net/virtio-net.c
index 01f1351554..6b8ae2c1fa 100644
--- a/hw/net/virtio-net.c
+++ b/hw/net/virtio-net.c
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@
 #define MAC_TABLE_ENTRIES    64
 #define MAX_VLAN    (1 << 12)   /* Per 802.1Q definition */
 
+/* previously fixed value */
+#define VIRTIO_NET_RX_QUEUE_DEFAULT_SIZE 256
+/* for now, only allow larger queues; with virtio-1, guest can downsize */
+#define VIRTIO_NET_RX_QUEUE_MIN_SIZE VIRTIO_NET_RX_QUEUE_DEFAULT_SIZE
+
 /*
  * Calculate the number of bytes up to and including the given 'field' of
  * 'container'.
@@ -1412,7 +1417,8 @@ static void virtio_net_add_queue(VirtIONet *n, int index)
 {
     VirtIODevice *vdev = VIRTIO_DEVICE(n);
 
-    n->vqs[index].rx_vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 256, virtio_net_handle_rx);
+    n->vqs[index].rx_vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, n->net_conf.rx_queue_size,
+                                           virtio_net_handle_rx);
     if (n->net_conf.tx && !strcmp(n->net_conf.tx, "timer")) {
         n->vqs[index].tx_vq =
             virtio_add_queue(vdev, 256, virtio_net_handle_tx_timer);
@@ -1720,6 +1726,22 @@ static void virtio_net_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
     virtio_net_set_config_size(n, n->host_features);
     virtio_init(vdev, "virtio-net", VIRTIO_ID_NET, n->config_size);
 
+    /*
+     * We set a lower limit on RX queue size to what it always was.
+     * Guests that want a smaller ring can always resize it without
+     * help from us (using virtio 1 and up).
+     */
+    if (n->net_conf.rx_queue_size < VIRTIO_NET_RX_QUEUE_MIN_SIZE ||
+        n->net_conf.rx_queue_size > VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE ||
+        (n->net_conf.rx_queue_size & (n->net_conf.rx_queue_size - 1))) {
+        error_setg(errp, "Invalid rx_queue_size (= %" PRIu16 "), "
+                   "must be a power of 2 between %d and %d.",
+                   n->net_conf.rx_queue_size, VIRTIO_NET_RX_QUEUE_MIN_SIZE,
+                   VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE);
+        virtio_cleanup(vdev);
+        return;
+    }
+
     n->max_queues = MAX(n->nic_conf.peers.queues, 1);
     if (n->max_queues * 2 + 1 > VIRTIO_QUEUE_MAX) {
         error_setg(errp, "Invalid number of queues (= %" PRIu32 "), "
@@ -1880,6 +1902,8 @@ static Property virtio_net_properties[] = {
                        TX_TIMER_INTERVAL),
     DEFINE_PROP_INT32("x-txburst", VirtIONet, net_conf.txburst, TX_BURST),
     DEFINE_PROP_STRING("tx", VirtIONet, net_conf.tx),
+    DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("rx_queue_size", VirtIONet, net_conf.rx_queue_size,
+                       VIRTIO_NET_RX_QUEUE_DEFAULT_SIZE),
     DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
 };