net: sched: do not acquire qdisc spinlock in qdisc/class stats dump

Large tc dumps (tc -s {qdisc|class} sh dev ethX) done by Google BwE host
agent [1] are problematic at scale :

For each qdisc/class found in the dump, we currently lock the root qdisc
spinlock in order to get stats. Sampling stats every 5 seconds from
thousands of HTB classes is a challenge when the root qdisc spinlock is
under high pressure. Not only the dumps take time, they also slow
down the fast path (queue/dequeue packets) by 10 % to 20 % in some cases.

An audit of existing qdiscs showed that sch_fq_codel is the only qdisc
that might need the qdisc lock in fq_codel_dump_stats() and
fq_codel_dump_class_stats()

In v2 of this patch, I now use the Qdisc running seqcount to provide
consistent reads of packets/bytes counters, regardless of 32/64 bit arches.

I also changed rate estimators to use the same infrastructure
so that they no longer need to lock root qdisc lock.

[1]
http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/43838.pdf

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Athey <kda@google.com>
Cc: Xiaotian Pei <xiaotian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_htb.c b/net/sched/sch_htb.c
index d4b4218af6b1..2b057649f24b 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_htb.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_htb.c
@@ -1141,7 +1141,8 @@ htb_dump_class_stats(struct Qdisc *sch, unsigned long arg, struct gnet_dump *d)
 	cl->xstats.tokens = PSCHED_NS2TICKS(cl->tokens);
 	cl->xstats.ctokens = PSCHED_NS2TICKS(cl->ctokens);
 
-	if (gnet_stats_copy_basic(d, NULL, &cl->bstats) < 0 ||
+	if (gnet_stats_copy_basic(qdisc_root_sleeping_running(sch),
+				  d, NULL, &cl->bstats) < 0 ||
 	    gnet_stats_copy_rate_est(d, NULL, &cl->rate_est) < 0 ||
 	    gnet_stats_copy_queue(d, NULL, &cl->qstats, qlen) < 0)
 		return -1;
@@ -1395,7 +1396,8 @@ static int htb_change_class(struct Qdisc *sch, u32 classid,
 		if (htb_rate_est || tca[TCA_RATE]) {
 			err = gen_new_estimator(&cl->bstats, NULL,
 						&cl->rate_est,
-						qdisc_root_sleeping_lock(sch),
+						NULL,
+						qdisc_root_sleeping_running(sch),
 						tca[TCA_RATE] ? : &est.nla);
 			if (err) {
 				kfree(cl);
@@ -1457,11 +1459,10 @@ static int htb_change_class(struct Qdisc *sch, u32 classid,
 			parent->children++;
 	} else {
 		if (tca[TCA_RATE]) {
-			spinlock_t *lock = qdisc_root_sleeping_lock(sch);
-
 			err = gen_replace_estimator(&cl->bstats, NULL,
 						    &cl->rate_est,
-						    lock,
+						    NULL,
+						    qdisc_root_sleeping_running(sch),
 						    tca[TCA_RATE]);
 			if (err)
 				return err;