On 2017年03月03日 22:39, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
+void vhost_signal(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq);
+static enum hrtimer_restart vhost_coalesce_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
+{
+ struct vhost_virtqueue *vq =
+ container_of(timer, struct vhost_virtqueue, ctimer);
+
+ if (mutex_trylock(&vq->mutex)) {
+ vq->coalesce_frames = vq->max_coalesce_frames;
+ vhost_signal(vq->dev, vq);
+ mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
+ }
+
+ /* TODO: restart if lock failed and not held by handle_tx */
+ return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
+}
+
Then we may lose an interrupt forever if no new tx request? I believe we
need e.g vhost_poll_queue() here.
Thanks
