From: Michal Kazior <mic...@plume.com> Some older wireless drivers - ones relying on the old and long deprecated wireless extension ioctl system - can generate quite a bit of IFLA_WIRELESS events depending on their configuration and runtime conditions. These are delivered as RTNLGRP_LINK via RTM_NEWLINK messages.
These tend to be relatively easily identifiable because they report the change mask being 0. This isn't guaranteed but in practice it shouldn't be a problem. None of the wireless events that I ever observed actually carry any unique information about netdev states that ovs-vswitchd is interested in. Hence ignoring these shouldn't cause any problems. These events can be responsible for a significant CPU churn as ovs-vswitchd attempts to do plenty of work for each and every netlink message regardless of what that message carries. On low-end devices such as consumer-grade routers these can lead to a lot of CPU cycles being wasted, adding up to heat output and reducing performance. It could be argued that wireless drivers in question should be fixed, but that isn't exactly a trivial thing to do. Patching ovs seems far more viable while still making sense. Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <mic...@plume.com> --- Notes: v3: - dont change rtnetlink_parse() semantics, instead extend rtnetlink_change struct and update its consumers [Ilya] - adjusted commit log to reflect different approach [Ilya] v2: - fix bracing style [0day robot / checkpatch] lib/if-notifier.c | 7 ++++++- lib/netdev-linux.c | 9 +++++++++ lib/route-table.c | 4 ++++ lib/rtnetlink.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ lib/rtnetlink.h | 3 +++ 5 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/if-notifier.c b/lib/if-notifier.c index 9a64f9b15..7ba9cc316 100644 --- a/lib/if-notifier.c +++ b/lib/if-notifier.c @@ -26,9 +26,14 @@ struct if_notifier { }; static void -if_notifier_cb(const struct rtnetlink_change *change OVS_UNUSED, void *aux) +if_notifier_cb(const struct rtnetlink_change *change, void *aux) { struct if_notifier *notifier; + + if (change->irrelevant) { + return; + } + notifier = aux; notifier->cb(notifier->aux); } diff --git a/lib/netdev-linux.c b/lib/netdev-linux.c index 6be23dbee..388288f71 100644 --- a/lib/netdev-linux.c +++ b/lib/netdev-linux.c @@ -663,6 +663,10 @@ netdev_linux_update_lag(struct rtnetlink_change *change) { struct linux_lag_member *lag; + if (change->irrelevant) { + return; + } + if (change->sub && netdev_linux_kind_is_lag(change->sub)) { lag = shash_find_data(&lag_shash, change->ifname); @@ -887,6 +891,10 @@ netdev_linux_update(struct netdev_linux *dev, int nsid, const struct rtnetlink_change *change) OVS_REQUIRES(dev->mutex) { + if (change->irrelevant) { + return; + } + if (netdev_linux_netnsid_is_eq(dev, nsid)) { netdev_linux_update__(dev, change); } @@ -6344,6 +6352,7 @@ netdev_linux_update_via_netlink(struct netdev_linux *netdev) } if (rtnetlink_parse(reply, change) + && !change->irrelevant && change->nlmsg_type == RTM_NEWLINK) { bool changed = false; error = 0; diff --git a/lib/route-table.c b/lib/route-table.c index 6c82cdfdd..a4531df1e 100644 --- a/lib/route-table.c +++ b/lib/route-table.c @@ -342,6 +342,10 @@ static void name_table_change(const struct rtnetlink_change *change, void *aux OVS_UNUSED) { + if (change->irrelevant) { + return; + } + /* Changes to interface status can cause routing table changes that some * versions of the linux kernel do not advertise for some reason. */ route_table_valid = false; diff --git a/lib/rtnetlink.c b/lib/rtnetlink.c index 125802925..ebb032aa7 100644 --- a/lib/rtnetlink.c +++ b/lib/rtnetlink.c @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ rtnetlink_parse(struct ofpbuf *buf, struct rtnetlink_change *change) [IFLA_MTU] = { .type = NL_A_U32, .optional = true }, [IFLA_ADDRESS] = { .type = NL_A_UNSPEC, .optional = true }, [IFLA_LINKINFO] = { .type = NL_A_NESTED, .optional = true }, + [IFLA_WIRELESS] = { .type = NL_A_UNSPEC, .optional = true }, }; struct nlattr *attrs[ARRAY_SIZE(policy)]; @@ -111,6 +112,23 @@ rtnetlink_parse(struct ofpbuf *buf, struct rtnetlink_change *change) ifinfo = ofpbuf_at(buf, NLMSG_HDRLEN, sizeof *ifinfo); + /* Wireless events can be spammy and cause a + * lot of unnecessary churn and CPU load in + * ovs-vswitchd. The best way to filter them out + * is to rely on the IFLA_WIRELESS and + * ifi_change. As per rtnetlink_ifinfo_prep() in + * the kernel, the ifi_change = 0. That combined + * with the fact wireless events never really + * change interface state (as far as core + * networking is concerned) they can be ignored + * by ovs-vswitchd. It doesn't understand + * wireless extensions anyway and has no way of + * presenting these bits into ovsdb. + */ + if (attrs[IFLA_WIRELESS] && ifinfo->ifi_change == 0) { + change->irrelevant = true; + } + change->nlmsg_type = nlmsg->nlmsg_type; change->if_index = ifinfo->ifi_index; change->ifname = nl_attr_get_string(attrs[IFLA_IFNAME]); diff --git a/lib/rtnetlink.h b/lib/rtnetlink.h index b6ddb4bd1..f103316f1 100644 --- a/lib/rtnetlink.h +++ b/lib/rtnetlink.h @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ struct rtnetlink_change { int mtu; /* Current MTU. */ struct eth_addr mac; unsigned int ifi_flags; /* Flags of network device. */ + bool irrelevant; /* Some events, notably wireless extensions, + don't really indicate real netdev change that + ovs should care about */ /* Network device address status. */ /* xxx To be added when needed. */ -- 2.27.0 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev