Re: [Qemu-devel] vhost-net issue: does not survive reboot on ppc64

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 12/23/2013 01:46 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 12/22/2013 09:56 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 02:01:23AM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I am having a problem with virtio-net + vhost on POWER7 machine - it does
>>> not survive reboot of the guest.
>>>
>>> Steps to reproduce:
>>> 1. boot the guest
>>> 2. configure eth0 and do ping - everything works
>>> 3. reboot the guest (i.e. type "reboot")
>>> 4. when it is booted, eth0 can be configured but will not work at all.
>>>
>>> The test is:
>>> ifconfig eth0 172.20.1.2 up
>>> ping 172.20.1.23
>>>
>>> If to run tcpdump on the host's "tap-id3" interface, it shows no trafic
>>> coming from the guest. If to compare how it works before and after reboot,
>>> I can see the guest doing an ARP request for 172.20.1.23 and receives the
>>> response and it does the same after reboot but the answer does not come.
>>
>> So you see the arp packet in guest but not in host?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
>> One thing to try is to boot debug kernel - where pr_debug is
>> enabled - then you might see some errors in the kernel log.
> 
> Tried and added lot more debug printk myself, not clear at all what is
> happening there.
> 
> One more hint - if I boot the guest and the guest does not bring eth0 up
> AND wait more than 200 seconds (and less than 210 seconds), then eth0 will
> not work at all. I.e. this script produces not-working-eth0:
> 
> 
> ifconfig eth0 172.20.1.2 down
> sleep 210
> ifconfig eth0 172.20.1.2 up
> ping 172.20.1.23
> 
> s/210/200/ - and it starts working. No reboot is required to reproduce.
> 
> No "vhost" == always works. The only difference I can see here is vhost's
> thread which may get suspended if not used for a while after the start and
> does not wake up but this is almost a blind guess.


Yet another clue - this host kernel patch seems to help with the guest
reboot but does not help with the initial 210 seconds delay:

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 69068e0..5e67650 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -162,10 +162,10 @@ void vhost_work_queue(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct
vhost_work *work)
                list_add_tail(&work->node, &dev->work_list);
                work->queue_seq++;
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->work_lock, flags);
-               wake_up_process(dev->worker);
        } else {
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->work_lock, flags);
        }
+       wake_up_process(dev->worker);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_work_queue);





>>> If to remove vhost=on, it is all good. If to try Fedora19
>>> (v3.10-something), it all good again - works before and after reboot.
>>>
>>>
>>> And there 2 questions:
>>>
>>> 1. does anybody have any clue what might go wrong after reboot?
>>>
>>> 2. Is there any good material to read about what exactly and how vhost
>>> accelerates?
>>>
>>> My understanding is that packets from the guest to the real network are
>>> going as:
>>> 1. guest's virtio-pci-net does ioport(VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_NOTIFY)
>>> 2. QEMU's net/virtio-net.c calls qemu_net_queue_deliver()
>>> 3. QEMU's net/tap.c calls tap_write_packet() and this is how the host knows
>>> that there is a new packet.
> 
> 
> What about the documentation? :) or the idea?
> 
> 
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> This how I run QEMU:
>>> ./qemu-system-ppc64 \
>>> -enable-kvm \
>>> -m 2048 \
>>> -machine pseries \
>>> -initrd 1.cpio \
>>> -kernel vml312_virtio_net_dbg \
>>> -nographic \
>>> -vga none \
>>> -netdev
>>> tap,id=id3,ifname=tap-id3,script=ifup.sh,downscript=ifdown.sh,vhost=on \
>>> -device virtio-net-pci,id=id4,netdev=id3,mac=C0:41:49:4b:00:00
>>>
>>>
>>> That is bridge config:
>>> address@hidden ~]$ brctl show
>>> bridge name bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
>>> brtest              8000.00145e992e88       no      pin     eth4
>>>
>>>
>>> The ifup.sh script:
>>> ifconfig $1 hw ether ee:01:02:03:04:05
>>> /sbin/ifconfig $1 up
>>> /usr/sbin/brctl addif brtest $1
> 
> 


-- 
Alexey