Hello Daniel,
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 7:42 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 06:34:12PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 10:06:14AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 02:48:15PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 07:13:39PM -0300, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> > > > > @@ -558,15 +575,26 @@ static ssize_t
> > > > > qio_channel_socket_writev(QIOChannel *ioc,
> > > > > memcpy(CMSG_DATA(cmsg), fds, fdsize);
> > > > > }
> > > > >
> > > > > + if (flags & QIO_CHANNEL_WRITE_FLAG_ZERO_COPY) {
> > > > > + sflags = MSG_ZEROCOPY;
> > > > > + }
> > > > > +
> > > > > retry:
> > > > > - ret = sendmsg(sioc->fd, &msg, 0);
> > > > > + ret = sendmsg(sioc->fd, &msg, sflags);
> > > > > if (ret <= 0) {
> > > > > - if (errno == EAGAIN) {
> > > > > + switch (errno) {
> > > > > + case EAGAIN:
> > > > > return QIO_CHANNEL_ERR_BLOCK;
> > > > > - }
> > > > > - if (errno == EINTR) {
> > > > > + case EINTR:
> > > > > goto retry;
> > > > > + case ENOBUFS:
> > > > > + if (sflags & MSG_ZEROCOPY) {
> > > > > + error_setg_errno(errp, errno,
> > > > > + "Process can't lock enough memory
> > > > > for using MSG_ZEROCOPY");
> > > > > + return -1;
> > > > > + }
> > > >
> > > > I have no idea whether it'll make a real differnece, but - should we
> > > > better add
> > > > a "break" here? If you agree and with that fixed, feel free to add:
> > > >
> > > > Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com>
> > > >
> > > > I also wonder whether you hit ENOBUFS in any of the environments. On
> > > > Fedora
> > > > here it's by default unlimited, but just curious when we should keep an
> > > > eye.
> > >
> > > Fedora doesn't allow unlimited locked memory by default
> > >
> > > $ grep "locked memory" /proc/self/limits
> > > Max locked memory 65536 65536 bytes
> > >
> > > And regardless of Fedora defaults, libvirt will set a limit
> > > for the guest. It will only be unlimited if requiring certain
> > > things like VFIO.
> >
> > Thanks, I obviously checked up the wrong host..
> >
> > Leo, do you know how much locked memory will be needed by zero copy? Will
> > there be a limit? Is it linear to the number of sockets/channels?
>
> IIRC we decided it would be limited by the socket send buffer size, rather
> than guest RAM, because writes will block once the send buffer is full.
>
> This has a default global setting, with per-socket override. On one box I
> have it is 200 Kb. With multifd you'll need "num-sockets * send buffer".
Oh, I was not aware there is a send buffer size (or maybe I am unable
to recall).
That sure makes things much easier.
>
> > It'll be better if we can fail at enabling the feature when we detected that
> > the specified locked memory limit may not be suffice.
sure
>
> Checking this value against available locked memory though will always
> have an error margin because other things in QEMU can use locked memory
> too
We can get the current limit (before zerocopy) as an error margin:
req_lock_mem = num-sockets * send buffer + BASE_LOCKED
Where BASE_LOCKED is the current libvirt value, or so on.
What do you think?
Best regards,
Leo
