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vhost-net: reduce vq polling on tx zerocopy

It seems that to avoid deadlocks it is enough to poll vq before
 we are going to use the last buffer.  This is faster than
c70aa540c7a9f67add11ad3161096fb95233aa2e.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Michael S. Tsirkin 12 年之前
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共有 1 个文件被更改,包括 12 次插入2 次删除
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      drivers/vhost/net.c

+ 12 - 2
drivers/vhost/net.c

@@ -197,8 +197,18 @@ static void vhost_zerocopy_callback(struct ubuf_info *ubuf, bool success)
 {
 	struct vhost_ubuf_ref *ubufs = ubuf->ctx;
 	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = ubufs->vq;
-
-	vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
+	int cnt = atomic_read(&ubufs->kref.refcount);
+
+	/*
+	 * Trigger polling thread if guest stopped submitting new buffers:
+	 * in this case, the refcount after decrement will eventually reach 1
+	 * so here it is 2.
+	 * We also trigger polling periodically after each 16 packets
+	 * (the value 16 here is more or less arbitrary, it's tuned to trigger
+	 * less than 10% of times).
+	 */
+	if (cnt <= 2 || !(cnt % 16))
+		vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
 	/* set len to mark this desc buffers done DMA */
 	vq->heads[ubuf->desc].len = success ?
 		VHOST_DMA_DONE_LEN : VHOST_DMA_FAILED_LEN;