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dpif-netdev: fix race for queues between pmd threads.
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Currently pmd threads select queues in pmd_load_queues() according to
get_n_pmd_threads_on_numa(). This behavior leads to race between pmds,
beacause dp_netdev_set_pmds_on_numa() starts them one by one and
current number of threads changes incrementally.

As a result we may have the following situation with 2 pmd threads:

* dp_netdev_set_pmds_on_numa()
* pmd12 thread started. Currently only 1 pmd thread exists.
dpif_netdev(pmd12)|INFO|Core 1 processing port 'port_1'
dpif_netdev(pmd12)|INFO|Core 1 processing port 'port_2'
* pmd14 thread started. 2 pmd threads exists.
dpif_netdev|INFO|Created 2 pmd threads on numa node 0
dpif_netdev(pmd14)|INFO|Core 2 processing port 'port_2'

We have:
core 1 --> port 1, port 2
core 2 --> port 2

Fix this by starting pmd threads only after all of them have
been configured.

Cc: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod at vmware.com>
Cc: Dyasly Sergey <s.dyasly at samsung.com>

Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Daniele Di Proietto <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <[email protected]>
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igsilya authored and ejj committed Aug 4, 2015
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16 changes: 12 additions & 4 deletions lib/dpif-netdev.c
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Expand Up @@ -2961,6 +2961,7 @@ dp_netdev_set_pmds_on_numa(struct dp_netdev *dp, int numa_id)
* pmd threads for the numa node. */
if (!n_pmds) {
int can_have, n_unpinned, i;
struct dp_netdev_pmd_thread **pmds;

n_unpinned = ovs_numa_get_n_unpinned_cores_on_numa(numa_id);
if (!n_unpinned) {
Expand All @@ -2972,15 +2973,22 @@ dp_netdev_set_pmds_on_numa(struct dp_netdev *dp, int numa_id)
/* If cpu mask is specified, uses all unpinned cores, otherwise
* tries creating NR_PMD_THREADS pmd threads. */
can_have = dp->pmd_cmask ? n_unpinned : MIN(n_unpinned, NR_PMD_THREADS);
pmds = xzalloc(can_have * sizeof *pmds);
for (i = 0; i < can_have; i++) {
struct dp_netdev_pmd_thread *pmd = xzalloc(sizeof *pmd);
unsigned core_id = ovs_numa_get_unpinned_core_on_numa(numa_id);

dp_netdev_configure_pmd(pmd, dp, i, core_id, numa_id);
pmds[i] = xzalloc(sizeof **pmds);
dp_netdev_configure_pmd(pmds[i], dp, i, core_id, numa_id);
}
/* The pmd thread code needs to see all the others configured pmd
* threads on the same numa node. That's why we call
* 'dp_netdev_configure_pmd()' on all the threads and then we actually
* start them. */
for (i = 0; i < can_have; i++) {
/* Each thread will distribute all devices rx-queues among
* themselves. */
pmd->thread = ovs_thread_create("pmd", pmd_thread_main, pmd);
pmds[i]->thread = ovs_thread_create("pmd", pmd_thread_main, pmds[i]);
}
free(pmds);
VLOG_INFO("Created %d pmd threads on numa node %d", can_have, numa_id);
}
}
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