Add a cpu notifier to virtio-net, so that we can reset the
virtqueue affinity if the cpu hotplug happens. It improve
the performance through enabling or disabling the virtqueue
affinity after doing cpu hotplug.

Cc: Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <erdnet...@gmail.com>
Cc: virtualizat...@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanl...@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
V4->V5:
        New method to deal with the cpu hotplug actions (Rusty)

 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 440b0eb..061f2c5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
 #include <linux/if_vlan.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/cpu.h>
 
 static int napi_weight = 128;
 module_param(napi_weight, int, 0444);
@@ -126,6 +127,9 @@ struct virtnet_info {
 
        /* Per-cpu variable to show the mapping from CPU to virtqueue */
        int __percpu *vq_index;
+
+       /* CPU hot plug notifier */
+       struct notifier_block nb;
 };
 
 struct skb_vnet_hdr {
@@ -1016,7 +1020,7 @@ static int virtnet_vlan_rx_kill_vid(struct net_device 
*dev, u16 vid)
        return 0;
 }
 
-static void virtnet_set_affinity(struct virtnet_info *vi, bool set)
+static void virtnet_set_affinity(struct virtnet_info *vi, bool set, long hcpu)
 {
        int i;
        int cpu;
@@ -1026,7 +1030,8 @@ static void virtnet_set_affinity(struct virtnet_info *vi, 
bool set)
         * setting the affinity hint to eliminate the contention.
         */
        if ((vi->curr_queue_pairs == 1 ||
-            vi->max_queue_pairs != num_online_cpus()) && set) {
+            vi->max_queue_pairs != num_online_cpus() - ((hcpu == -1) ? 0 : 1))
+           && set) {
                if (vi->affinity_hint_set)
                        set = false;
                else
@@ -1036,6 +1041,8 @@ static void virtnet_set_affinity(struct virtnet_info *vi, 
bool set)
        if (set) {
                i = 0;
                for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+                       if (cpu == hcpu)
+                               continue;
                        virtqueue_set_affinity(vi->rq[i].vq, cpu);
                        virtqueue_set_affinity(vi->sq[i].vq, cpu);
                        *per_cpu_ptr(vi->vq_index, cpu) = i;
@@ -1050,14 +1057,36 @@ static void virtnet_set_affinity(struct virtnet_info 
*vi, bool set)
                }
 
                i = 0;
-               for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
+               for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+                       if (cpu == hcpu)
+                               continue;
                        *per_cpu_ptr(vi->vq_index, cpu) =
                                ++i % vi->curr_queue_pairs;
+               }
 
                vi->affinity_hint_set = false;
        }
 }
 
+static int virtnet_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
+                               unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
+{
+       struct virtnet_info *vi = container_of(nfb, struct virtnet_info, nb);
+
+       switch(action & ~CPU_TASKS_FROZEN) {
+       case CPU_ONLINE:
+       case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
+               virtnet_set_affinity(vi, true, -1);
+               break;
+       case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE:
+               virtnet_set_affinity(vi, true, (long)hcpu);
+               break;
+       default:
+               break;
+       }
+       return NOTIFY_OK;
+}
+
 static void virtnet_get_ringparam(struct net_device *dev,
                                struct ethtool_ringparam *ring)
 {
@@ -1105,7 +1134,7 @@ static int virtnet_set_channels(struct net_device *dev,
                netif_set_real_num_rx_queues(dev, queue_pairs);
 
                get_online_cpus();
-               virtnet_set_affinity(vi, true);
+               virtnet_set_affinity(vi, true, -1);
                put_online_cpus();
        }
 
@@ -1275,7 +1304,7 @@ static void virtnet_del_vqs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
        struct virtio_device *vdev = vi->vdev;
 
        get_online_cpus();
-       virtnet_set_affinity(vi, false);
+       virtnet_set_affinity(vi, false, -1);
        put_online_cpus();
 
        vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev);
@@ -1400,7 +1429,7 @@ static int init_vqs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
                goto err_free;
 
        get_online_cpus();
-       virtnet_set_affinity(vi, true);
+       virtnet_set_affinity(vi, true, -1);
        put_online_cpus();
 
        return 0;
@@ -1534,6 +1563,13 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
                }
        }
 
+       vi->nb.notifier_call = &virtnet_cpu_callback;
+       err = register_hotcpu_notifier(&vi->nb);
+       if (err) {
+               pr_debug("virtio_net: registering cpu notifier failed\n");
+               goto free_recv_bufs;
+       }
+
        /* Assume link up if device can't report link status,
           otherwise get link status from config. */
        if (virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS)) {
@@ -1580,6 +1616,8 @@ static void virtnet_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 {
        struct virtnet_info *vi = vdev->priv;
 
+       unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&vi->nb);
+
        /* Prevent config work handler from accessing the device. */
        mutex_lock(&vi->config_lock);
        vi->config_enable = false;
-- 
1.8.1

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