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Jia He 619453716d vhost: vsock: kick send_pkt worker once device is started

commit 0b841030625cde5f784dd62aec72d6a766faae70 upstream.

Ning Bo reported an abnormal 2-second gap when booting Kata container [1].
The unconditional timeout was caused by VSOCK_DEFAULT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT of
connecting from the client side. The vhost vsock client tries to connect
an initializing virtio vsock server.

The abnormal flow looks like:
host-userspace           vhost vsock                       guest vsock
==============           ===========                       ============
connect()     -------->  vhost_transport_send_pkt_work()   initializing
   |                     vq->private_data==NULL
   |                     will not be queued
   V
schedule_timeout(2s)
                         vhost_vsock_start()  <---------   device ready
                         set vq->private_data

wait for 2s and failed
connect() again          vq->private_data!=NULL         recv connecting pkt

Details:
1. Host userspace sends a connect pkt, at that time, guest vsock is under
   initializing, hence the vhost_vsock_start has not been called. So
   vq->private_data==NULL, and the pkt is not been queued to send to guest
2. Then it sleeps for 2s
3. After guest vsock finishes initializing, vq->private_data is set
4. When host userspace wakes up after 2s, send connecting pkt again,
   everything is fine.

As suggested by Stefano Garzarella, this fixes it by additional kicking the
send_pkt worker in vhost_vsock_start once the virtio device is started. This
makes the pending pkt sent again.

After this patch, kata-runtime (with vsock enabled) boot time is reduced
from 3s to 1s on a ThunderX2 arm64 server.

[1] https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/1917

Reported-by: Ning Bo <n.b@live.com>
Suggested-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200501043840.186557-1-justin.he@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2020-05-10 10:28:00 +02:00

Kconfig

vhost: split out vringh Kconfig

2016-08-02 16:54:28 +03:00

Kconfig.vringh

vhost: split out vringh Kconfig

2016-08-02 16:54:28 +03:00

Makefile

VSOCK: Add Makefile and Kconfig

2016-08-02 02:57:30 +03:00

net.c

vhost: Check docket sk_family instead of call getname