From c3059be16c9ef29c05f0876a9df5fea21f29724f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shriram Rajagopalan Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 13:51:32 +0000 Subject: net/sched: sch_plug - Queue traffic until an explicit release command The qdisc supports two operations - plug and unplug. When the qdisc receives a plug command via netlink request, packets arriving henceforth are buffered until a corresponding unplug command is received. Depending on the type of unplug command, the queue can be unplugged indefinitely or selectively. This qdisc can be used to implement output buffering, an essential functionality required for consistent recovery in checkpoint based fault-tolerance systems. Output buffering enables speculative execution by allowing generated network traffic to be rolled back. It is used to provide network protection for Xen Guests in the Remus high availability project, available as part of Xen. This module is generic enough to be used by any other system that wishes to add speculative execution and output buffering to its applications. This module was originally available in the linux 2.6.32 PV-OPS tree, used as dom0 for Xen. For more information, please refer to http://nss.cs.ubc.ca/remus/ and http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Remus Changes in V3: * Removed debug output (printk) on queue overflow * Added TCQ_PLUG_RELEASE_INDEFINITE - that allows the user to use this qdisc, for simple plug/unplug operations. * Use of packet counts instead of pointers to keep track of the buffers in the queue. Signed-off-by: Shriram Rajagopalan Signed-off-by: Brendan Cully [author of the code in the linux 2.6.32 pvops tree] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/sched/sch_plug.c | 233 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 233 insertions(+) create mode 100644 net/sched/sch_plug.c (limited to 'net/sched/sch_plug.c') diff --git a/net/sched/sch_plug.c b/net/sched/sch_plug.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ba7b737e4055 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/sched/sch_plug.c @@ -0,0 +1,233 @@ +/* + * sch_plug.c Queue traffic until an explicit release command + * + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License + * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version + * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. + * + * There are two ways to use this qdisc: + * 1. A simple "instantaneous" plug/unplug operation, by issuing an alternating + * sequence of TCQ_PLUG_BUFFER & TCQ_PLUG_RELEASE_INDEFINITE commands. + * + * 2. For network output buffering (a.k.a output commit) functionality. + * Output commit property is commonly used by applications using checkpoint + * based fault-tolerance to ensure that the checkpoint from which a system + * is being restored is consistent w.r.t outside world. + * + * Consider for e.g. Remus - a Virtual Machine checkpointing system, + * wherein a VM is checkpointed, say every 50ms. The checkpoint is replicated + * asynchronously to the backup host, while the VM continues executing the + * next epoch speculatively. + * + * The following is a typical sequence of output buffer operations: + * 1.At epoch i, start_buffer(i) + * 2. At end of epoch i (i.e. after 50ms): + * 2.1 Stop VM and take checkpoint(i). + * 2.2 start_buffer(i+1) and Resume VM + * 3. While speculatively executing epoch(i+1), asynchronously replicate + * checkpoint(i) to backup host. + * 4. When checkpoint_ack(i) is received from backup, release_buffer(i) + * Thus, this Qdisc would receive the following sequence of commands: + * TCQ_PLUG_BUFFER (epoch i) + * .. TCQ_PLUG_BUFFER (epoch i+1) + * ....TCQ_PLUG_RELEASE_ONE (epoch i) + * ......TCQ_PLUG_BUFFER (epoch i+2) + * ........ + */ + +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include + +/* + * State of the queue, when used for network output buffering: + * + * plug(i+1) plug(i) head + * ------------------+--------------------+----------------> + * | | + * | | + * pkts_current_epoch| pkts_last_epoch |pkts_to_release + * ----------------->|<--------+--------->|+---------------> + * v v + * + */ + +struct plug_sched_data { + /* If true, the dequeue function releases all packets + * from head to end of the queue. The queue turns into + * a pass-through queue for newly arriving packets. + */ + bool unplug_indefinite; + + /* Queue Limit in bytes */ + u32 limit; + + /* Number of packets (output) from the current speculatively + * executing epoch. + */ + u32 pkts_current_epoch; + + /* Number of packets corresponding to the recently finished + * epoch. These will be released when we receive a + * TCQ_PLUG_RELEASE_ONE command. This command is typically + * issued after committing a checkpoint at the target. + */ + u32 pkts_last_epoch; + + /* + * Number of packets from the head of the queue, that can + * be released (committed checkpoint). + */ + u32 pkts_to_release; +}; + +static int plug_enqueue(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *sch) +{ + struct plug_sched_data *q = qdisc_priv(sch); + + if (likely(sch->qstats.backlog + skb->len <= q->limit)) { + if (!q->unplug_indefinite) + q->pkts_current_epoch++; + return qdisc_enqueue_tail(skb, sch); + } + + return qdisc_reshape_fail(skb, sch); +} + +static struct sk_buff *plug_dequeue(struct Qdisc *sch) +{ + struct plug_sched_data *q = qdisc_priv(sch); + + if (qdisc_is_throttled(sch)) + return NULL; + + if (!q->unplug_indefinite) { + if (!q->pkts_to_release) { + /* No more packets to dequeue. Block the queue + * and wait for the next release command. + */ + qdisc_throttled(sch); + return NULL; + } + q->pkts_to_release--; + } + + return qdisc_dequeue_head(sch); +} + +static int plug_init(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt) +{ + struct plug_sched_data *q = qdisc_priv(sch); + + q->pkts_current_epoch = 0; + q->pkts_last_epoch = 0; + q->pkts_to_release = 0; + q->unplug_indefinite = false; + + if (opt == NULL) { + /* We will set a default limit of 100 pkts (~150kB) + * in case tx_queue_len is not available. The + * default value is completely arbitrary. + */ + u32 pkt_limit = qdisc_dev(sch)->tx_queue_len ? : 100; + q->limit = pkt_limit * psched_mtu(qdisc_dev(sch)); + } else { + struct tc_plug_qopt *ctl = nla_data(opt); + + if (nla_len(opt) < sizeof(*ctl)) + return -EINVAL; + + q->limit = ctl->limit; + } + + qdisc_throttled(sch); + return 0; +} + +/* Receives 4 types of messages: + * TCQ_PLUG_BUFFER: Inset a plug into the queue and + * buffer any incoming packets + * TCQ_PLUG_RELEASE_ONE: Dequeue packets from queue head + * to beginning of the next plug. + * TCQ_PLUG_RELEASE_INDEFINITE: Dequeue all packets from queue. + * Stop buffering packets until the next TCQ_PLUG_BUFFER + * command is received (just act as a pass-thru queue). + * TCQ_PLUG_LIMIT: Increase/decrease queue size + */ +static int plug_change(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt) +{ + struct plug_sched_data *q = qdisc_priv(sch); + struct tc_plug_qopt *msg; + + if (opt == NULL) + return -EINVAL; + + msg = nla_data(opt); + if (nla_len(opt) < sizeof(*msg)) + return -EINVAL; + + switch (msg->action) { + case TCQ_PLUG_BUFFER: + /* Save size of the current buffer */ + q->pkts_last_epoch = q->pkts_current_epoch; + q->pkts_current_epoch = 0; + if (q->unplug_indefinite) + qdisc_throttled(sch); + q->unplug_indefinite = false; + break; + case TCQ_PLUG_RELEASE_ONE: + /* Add packets from the last complete buffer to the + * packets to be released set. + */ + q->pkts_to_release += q->pkts_last_epoch; + q->pkts_last_epoch = 0; + qdisc_unthrottled(sch); + netif_schedule_queue(sch->dev_queue); + break; + case TCQ_PLUG_RELEASE_INDEFINITE: + q->unplug_indefinite = true; + q->pkts_to_release = 0; + q->pkts_last_epoch = 0; + q->pkts_current_epoch = 0; + qdisc_unthrottled(sch); + netif_schedule_queue(sch->dev_queue); + break; + case TCQ_PLUG_LIMIT: + /* Limit is supplied in bytes */ + q->limit = msg->limit; + break; + default: + return -EINVAL; + } + + return 0; +} + +struct Qdisc_ops plug_qdisc_ops = { + .id = "plug", + .priv_size = sizeof(struct plug_sched_data), + .enqueue = plug_enqueue, + .dequeue = plug_dequeue, + .peek = qdisc_peek_head, + .init = plug_init, + .change = plug_change, + .owner = THIS_MODULE, +}; + +static int __init plug_module_init(void) +{ + return register_qdisc(&plug_qdisc_ops); +} + +static void __exit plug_module_exit(void) +{ + unregister_qdisc(&plug_qdisc_ops); +} +module_init(plug_module_init) +module_exit(plug_module_exit) +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -- cgit v1.2.2 From 2132cf64371a20f5c427da42f9f9e7e99bc5fb88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:40:45 +0000 Subject: net_sched: sch_plug: plug_qdisc_ops is static net/sched/sch_plug.c:211:18: warning: symbol 'plug_qdisc_ops' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/sched/sch_plug.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/sched/sch_plug.c') diff --git a/net/sched/sch_plug.c b/net/sched/sch_plug.c index ba7b737e4055..89f8fcf73f18 100644 --- a/net/sched/sch_plug.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_plug.c @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static int plug_change(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt) return 0; } -struct Qdisc_ops plug_qdisc_ops = { +static struct Qdisc_ops plug_qdisc_ops __read_mostly = { .id = "plug", .priv_size = sizeof(struct plug_sched_data), .enqueue = plug_enqueue, -- cgit v1.2.2