After commit 100dfa74cad9 ("inet: dev_queue_xmit() llist adoption")
I started seeing many qdisc requeues on IDPF under high TX workload.
$ tc -s qd sh dev eth1 handle 1: ; sleep 1; tc -s qd sh dev eth1 handle 1:
qdisc mq 1: root
Sent 43534617319319 bytes 268186451819 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 3532840114)
backlog 1056Kb 6675p requeues 3532840114
qdisc mq 1: root
Sent 43554665866695 bytes 268309964788 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 3537737653)
backlog 781164b 4822p requeues 3537737653
This is caused by try_bulk_dequeue_skb() being only limited by BQL budget.
perf record -C120-239 -e qdisc:qdisc_dequeue sleep 1 ; perf script
...
netperf 75332 [146] 2711.138269: qdisc:qdisc_dequeue: dequeue ifindex=5 qdisc handle=0x80150000 parent=0x10013 txq_state=0x0 packets=1292 skbaddr=0xff378005a1e9f200
netperf 75332 [146] 2711.138953: qdisc:qdisc_dequeue: dequeue ifindex=5 qdisc handle=0x80150000 parent=0x10013 txq_state=0x0 packets=1213 skbaddr=0xff378004d607a500
netperf 75330 [144] 2711.139631: qdisc:qdisc_dequeue: dequeue ifindex=5 qdisc handle=0x80150000 parent=0x10013 txq_state=0x0 packets=1233 skbaddr=0xff3780046be20100
netperf 75333 [147] 2711.140356: qdisc:qdisc_dequeue: dequeue ifindex=5 qdisc handle=0x80150000 parent=0x10013 txq_state=0x0 packets=1093 skbaddr=0xff37800514845b00
netperf 75337 [151] 2711.141037: qdisc:qdisc_dequeue: dequeue ifindex=5 qdisc handle=0x80150000 parent=0x10013 txq_state=0x0 packets=1353 skbaddr=0xff37800460753300
netperf 75337 [151] 2711.141877: qdisc:qdisc_dequeue: dequeue ifindex=5 qdisc handle=0x80150000 parent=0x10013 txq_state=0x0 packets=1367 skbaddr=0xff378004e72c7b00
netperf 75330 [144] 2711.142643: qdisc:qdisc_dequeue: dequeue ifindex=5 qdisc handle=0x80150000 parent=0x10013 txq_state=0x0 packets=1202 skbaddr=0xff3780045bd60000
...
This is bad because :
1) Large batches hold one victim cpu for a very long time.
2) Driver often hit their own TX ring limit (all slots are used).
3) We call dev_requeue_skb()
4) Requeues are using a FIFO (q->gso_skb), breaking qdisc ability to
implement FQ or priority scheduling.
5) dequeue_skb() gets packets from q->gso_skb one skb at a time
with no xmit_more support. This is causing many spinlock games
between the qdisc and the device driver.
Requeues were supposed to be very rare, lets keep them this way.
Limit batch sizes to /proc/sys/net/core/dev_weight (default 64) as
__qdisc_run() was designed to use.
Fixes: 5772e9a346 ("qdisc: bulk dequeue support for qdiscs with TCQ_F_ONETXQUEUE")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251109161215.2574081-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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