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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 2/5] hw/ppc: removing spapr_drc_detac


From: Daniel Henrique Barboza
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 2/5] hw/ppc: removing spapr_drc_detach_cb opaques
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 17:33:54 -0300
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Update: I have talked with Michael Roth about the spapr_release_lmb callback, the flow of the LMB releases and so on. He clarified to me that it is not possible to get rid of
the callback and put its code in the spapr_del_lmbs function.

The reason is that the callback is being executed by the guest via spapr_rtas.c:rtas_set_indicator(), which in turn will follow the flow of the DRC releases and eventually will hit the spapr_release_lmb callback, but this will not necessarily happen in the spam of the spapr_del_lmbs function. This means that my idea of putting the cb code in the spapr_del_lmbs and removing the callback not possible.

On the other hand, Bharata raised the issue about the scan function in the callback being a problem. My tests with a 1 Gb unplug didn't show any noticeable delay increase but in theory we support memory unplugs of 1 Terabyte. With 1Gb of RAM we need 4 DRCs, so 1 Tb would require 4000 DRCs. Then we would scan through them 4000 times. I don't think the scan inside the callback is feasible in this scenario
either.

In the v9 I'll migrate the sPAPRDIMMState structure like Michael Roth mentioned somewhere in the v6 review to use it inside the spapr_lmb_release callback - looks like the best option we have.


Thanks,


Daniel



On 05/03/2017 10:56 AM, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:


On 05/03/2017 12:26 AM, Bharata B Rao wrote:
On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Daniel Henrique Barboza <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:



    On 05/02/2017 12:40 AM, Bharata B Rao wrote:
    On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:55 PM, Daniel Henrique Barboza
    <address@hidden
    <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:

        Following up the previous detach_cb change, this patch
        removes the
        detach_cb_opaque entirely from the code.

        The reason is that the drc->detach_cb_opaque object can't be
        restored in the post load of the upcoming DRC migration and
        no detach
        callbacks actually need this opaque. 'spapr_core_release' is
        receiving it as NULL, 'spapr_phb_remove_pci_device_cb' is
        receiving
        a phb object as opaque but is't using it. These were trivial
        removal
        cases.

However, the LM removal callback 'spapr_lmb_release' is receiving
        and using the opaque object, a 'sPAPRDIMMState' struct. This
        struct
        holds the number of LMBs the DIMM object contains and the
        callback
        was using this counter as a countdown to check if all LMB
        DRCs were
        release before proceeding to the DIMM unplug. To remove the
        need of
        this callback we have choices such as:

        - migrate the 'sPAPRDIMMState' struct. This would require
        creating a
        QTAILQ to store all DIMMStates and an additional 'dimm_id'
        field to
        associate the DIMMState with the DIMM object. We could attach
        this
        QTAILQ to the 'sPAPRPHBState' and retrieve it later in the
        callback.

        - fetch the state of the LMB DRCs directly by scanning the
        state of
        them and, if all of them are released, proceed with the DIMM
        unplug.

        The second approach was chosen. The new
        'spapr_all_lmbs_drcs_released'
        function scans all LMBs of a given DIMM device to see if
        their DRC
        state are inactive. If all of them are inactive return
        'true', 'false'
        otherwise. This function is being called inside the
        'spapr_lmb_release'
callback, replacing the role of the 'sPAPRDIMMState' opaque. The
        'sPAPRDIMMState' struct was removed from the code given that
        there are
        no more uses for it.

        After all these changes, there are no roles left for the
        'detach_cb_opaque'
        attribute of the 'sPAPRDRConnector' as well, so we can safely
        remove
        it from the code too.

        Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza
        <address@hidden
        <mailto:address@hidden>>
        ---
         hw/ppc/spapr.c             | 46
        +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
         hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c         | 16 +++++-----------
         hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c         |  4 ++--
         include/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.h |  6 ++----
         4 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

        diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
        index bc11757..8b9a6cf 100644
        --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
        +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
@@ -1887,21 +1887,43 @@ static void spapr_drc_reset(void *opaque)
             }
         }

        -typedef struct sPAPRDIMMState {
        -    uint32_t nr_lmbs;
        -} sPAPRDIMMState;
        +static bool spapr_all_lmbs_drcs_released(PCDIMMDevice *dimm)
        +{
        +    Error *local_err = NULL;
        +    PCDIMMDeviceClass *ddc = PC_DIMM_GET_CLASS(dimm);
        +    MemoryRegion *mr = ddc->get_memory_region(dimm);
        +    uint64_t size = memory_region_size(mr);
        +
        +    uint64_t addr;
        +    addr = object_property_get_int(OBJECT(dimm),
        PC_DIMM_ADDR_PROP, &local_err);
        +    if (local_err) {
        +        error_propagate(&error_abort, local_err);
        +        return false;
        +    }
        +    uint32_t nr_lmbs = size / SPAPR_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE;

        -static void spapr_lmb_release(DeviceState *dev, void *opaque)
        +    sPAPRDRConnector *drc;
        +    int i = 0;
        +    for (i = 0; i < nr_lmbs; i++) {
        +        drc =
        spapr_dr_connector_by_id(SPAPR_DR_CONNECTOR_TYPE_LMB,
        +                addr / SPAPR_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE);
        +        g_assert(drc);
        +        if (drc->indicator_state !=
        SPAPR_DR_INDICATOR_STATE_INACTIVE) {
        +            return false;
        +        }
        +        addr += SPAPR_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE;
        +    }
        +    return true;
        +}
        +
        +static void spapr_lmb_release(DeviceState *dev)
         {
        -    sPAPRDIMMState *ds = (sPAPRDIMMState *)opaque;
             HotplugHandler *hotplug_ctrl;

        -    if (--ds->nr_lmbs) {
        +    if (!spapr_all_lmbs_drcs_released(PC_DIMM(dev))) {
                 return;
             }


    I am concerned about the number of times we walk the DRC list
    corresponding to each DIMM device. When a DIMM device is being
    removed, spapr_lmb_release() will be invoked for each of the LMBs
    of that DIMM. Now in this scheme, we end up walking through all
    the DRC objects of the DIMM from every LMB's release function.

    Hi Bharata,


    I agree, this is definitely a poorer performance than simply
    decrementing ds->nr_lmbs.
    The reasons why I went on with it:

    - hot unplug isn't an operation that happens too often, so it's
    not terrible
    to have a delay increase here;

    - it didn't increased the unplug delay in an human noticeable way,
    at least in
    my tests;

    - apart from migrating the information, there is nothing much we
    can do in the
    callback side about it. The callback isn't aware of the current
    state of the DIMM
    removal process, so the scanning is required every time.


    All that said, assuming that the process of DIMM removal will
    always go through
    'spapr_del_lmbs', why do we need this callback? Can't we simply do
    something
    like this in spapr_del_lmbs?


    diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
    index cd42449..e443fea 100644
    --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
    +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
    @@ -2734,6 +2734,20 @@ static void spapr_del_lmbs(DeviceState
    *dev, uint64_t addr_start, uint64_t size,
             addr += SPAPR_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE;
         }

    +    if (!spapr_all_lmbs_drcs_released(PC_DIMM(dev))) {
    +        // something went wrong in the removal of the LMBs.
    +        // propagate error and return
    +        throw_error_code;
    +        return;
    +    }


spapr_del_lmbs() is called from ->unplug_request(). Here we notify the guest about the unplug request. We have to wait till the guest gives us a go ahead so that we can cleanup the DIMM device. The cleanup is done as part of release callback (spapr_lmb_release) at which point we are sure that the given LMB has been indeed removed by the guest.

I wasn't clear enough in my last comment. Let me rephrase. Is there any other use for the 'spapr_lmb_release' callback function other than being called by the spapr_del_lmbs() in the flow you've stated above? Searching the master code now I've found:


$ grep -R 'spapr_lmb_release' .
./spapr.c:static void spapr_lmb_release(DeviceState *dev, void *opaque)
./spapr.c:        drck->detach(drc, dev, spapr_lmb_release, ds, errp);


Note that all the callback is doing is asserting that a nr_lmb counter will be zero after
a decrement and, if true,  execute the following:


    hotplug_ctrl = qdev_get_hotplug_handler(dev);
    hotplug_handler_unplug(hotplug_ctrl, dev, &error_abort);


So, if the callback spapr_lmb_release is only being called in the following for loop of spapr_del_lmbs() to clean up each LMB DRC, can't we get rid of it and do the following after this for loop?

    for (i = 0; i < nr_lmbs; i++) {
        drc = spapr_dr_connector_by_id(SPAPR_DR_CONNECTOR_TYPE_LMB,
                addr / SPAPR_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE);
        g_assert(drc);

        drck = SPAPR_DR_CONNECTOR_GET_CLASS(drc);
        drck->detach(drc, dev, ds, errp);
        addr += SPAPR_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE;
    }

    if (!spapr_all_lmbs_drcs_released(PC_DIMM(dev))) {
        // All LMBs were cleared, proceed with detach
        hotplug_ctrl = qdev_get_hotplug_handler(dev);
        hotplug_handler_unplug(hotplug_ctrl, dev, &error_abort);
   }
   // proceed with spapr_del_lmbs code


Doesn't this code does exactly the same thing that the callback does today? Note that we can even use that conditional to block the remaining spapr_del_lmbs code from executing if the
LMBs weren't properly cleansed - something that today isn't done.


If removing this callback is too problematic or can somehow cause problems that I am unable to foresee, then the alternative would be to either deal with the scanning inside the callback (as it is being done in this patch) or migrate the nr_lmbs information for late retrieval in the callback. I am fine with any alternative, we just need to agree on what makes more
sense.


Daniel


Regards,
Bharata.





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