[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] netvsc: resize event buffer as needed

[Stephen Hemminger]

The event buffer was changed to be a fixed size value, but it
is not large enough for a forwarding stress test.

This version of event buffer code uses malloc/realloc to size
the event buffer as needed. Malloc is preferred over rte_malloc
because the event buffer does not need to be used for DMA
and huge page is a limited resource.

Fixes: 530af95a7849 ("bus/vmbus: avoid signalling host on read")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com>
---
 drivers/net/netvsc/hn_rxtx.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 drivers/net/netvsc/hn_var.h  |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_rxtx.c
index 3e52a328b152..79bb4d587783 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_rxtx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_rxtx.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <strings.h>
+#include <malloc.h>
 
 #include <rte_ethdev.h>
 #include <rte_memcpy.h>
@@ -718,16 +719,22 @@ struct hn_rx_queue *hn_rx_queue_alloc(struct hn_data *hv,
 {
        struct hn_rx_queue *rxq;
 
-       rxq = rte_zmalloc_socket("HN_RXQ",
-                                sizeof(*rxq) + HN_RXQ_EVENT_DEFAULT,
+       rxq = rte_zmalloc_socket("HN_RXQ", sizeof(*rxq),
                                 RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, socket_id);
-       if (rxq) {
-               rxq->hv = hv;
-               rxq->chan = hv->channels[queue_id];
-               rte_spinlock_init(&rxq->ring_lock);
-               rxq->port_id = hv->port_id;
-               rxq->queue_id = queue_id;
+       if (!rxq)
+               return NULL;
+
+       rxq->hv = hv;
+       rxq->chan = hv->channels[queue_id];
+       rte_spinlock_init(&rxq->ring_lock);
+       rxq->port_id = hv->port_id;
+       rxq->queue_id = queue_id;
+       rxq->event_buf = malloc(HN_RXQ_EVENT_DEFAULT);
+       if (!rxq->event_buf) {
+               free(rxq);
+               return NULL;
        }
+
        return rxq;
 }
 
@@ -776,6 +783,7 @@ hn_dev_rx_queue_setup(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 
 fail:
        rte_ring_free(rxq->rx_ring);
+       free(rxq->event_buf);
        rte_free(rxq);
        return -ENOMEM;
 }
@@ -794,8 +802,10 @@ hn_dev_rx_queue_release(void *arg)
        rxq->rx_ring = NULL;
        rxq->mb_pool = NULL;
 
-       if (rxq != rxq->hv->primary)
+       if (rxq != rxq->hv->primary) {
+               free(rxq->event_buf);
                rte_free(rxq);
+       }
 }
 
 void
@@ -850,19 +860,31 @@ void hn_process_events(struct hn_data *hv, uint16_t 
queue_id)
 
        for (;;) {
                const struct vmbus_chanpkt_hdr *pkt;
-               uint32_t len = HN_RXQ_EVENT_DEFAULT;
+               uint32_t len = malloc_usable_size(rxq->event_buf);
                const void *data;
 
+retry:
                ret = rte_vmbus_chan_recv_raw(rxq->chan, rxq->event_buf, &len);
                if (ret == -EAGAIN)
                        break;  /* ring is empty */
 
-               else if (ret == -ENOBUFS)
-                       rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "event buffer not big enough (%u 
< %u)",
-                                HN_RXQ_EVENT_DEFAULT, len);
-               else if (ret <= 0)
+               if (unlikely(ret == -ENOBUFS)) {
+                       /* event buffer not large enough to read ring */
+
+                       PMD_DRV_LOG(DEBUG,
+                                   "event buffer expansion (need %u)", len);
+                       rxq->event_buf = realloc(rxq->event_buf, len);
+                       if (rxq->event_buf)
+                               goto retry;
+                       /* out of memory, no more events now */
+                       break;
+               }
+
+               if (unlikely(ret <= 0)) {
+                       /* This indicates a failure to communicate (or worse) */
                        rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE,
                                 "vmbus ring buffer error: %d", ret);
+               }
 
                bytes_read += ret;
                pkt = (const struct vmbus_chanpkt_hdr *)rxq->event_buf;
diff --git a/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_var.h b/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_var.h
index f7ff8585bc1c..0430f450cf37 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_var.h
+++ b/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_var.h
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ struct hn_rx_queue {
        struct hn_stats stats;
        uint64_t ring_full;
 
-       uint8_t event_buf[];
+       void *event_buf;
 };
 
 
-- 
2.18.0