vhost: vsock: kick send_pkt worker once device is started
authorJia He <justin.he@arm.com>
Fri, 1 May 2020 04:38:40 +0000 (12:38 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 10 May 2020 08:31:21 +0000 (10:31 +0200)
commit336c7260a7888f2def143629694ba087dbcfa9d3
tree3034e6f367c81806c673461c6d20c74e3e9f3345
parent592465e6a54ba8104969f3b73b58df262c5be5f5
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>
drivers/vhost/vsock.c