On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 10:20 PM Toshiaki Makita
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 18/07/23 (月) 21:43, Tonghao Zhang wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 5:58 PM Toshiaki Makita
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2018/07/22 3:04, [email protected] wrote:
> >>> From: Tonghao Zhang <[email protected]>
> >>>
> >>> Factor out generic busy polling logic and will be
> >>> used for in tx path in the next patch. And with the patch,
> >>> qemu can set differently the busyloop_timeout for rx queue.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <[email protected]>
> >>> ---
> >> ...
> >>> +static void vhost_net_busy_poll_vq_check(struct vhost_net *net,
> >>> + struct vhost_virtqueue *rvq,
> >>> + struct vhost_virtqueue *tvq,
> >>> + bool rx)
> >>> +{
> >>> + struct socket *sock = rvq->private_data;
> >>> +
> >>> + if (rx) {
> >>> + if (!vhost_vq_avail_empty(&net->dev, tvq)) {
> >>> + vhost_poll_queue(&tvq->poll);
> >>> + } else if (unlikely(vhost_enable_notify(&net->dev, tvq))) {
> >>> + vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, tvq);
> >>> + vhost_poll_queue(&tvq->poll);
> >>> + }
> >>> + } else if ((sock && sk_has_rx_data(sock->sk)) &&
> >>> + !vhost_vq_avail_empty(&net->dev, rvq)) {
> >>> + vhost_poll_queue(&rvq->poll);
> >>
> >> Now we wait for vq_avail for rx as well, I think you cannot skip
> >> vhost_enable_notify() on tx. Probably you might want to do:
> > I think vhost_enable_notify is needed.
> >
> >> } else if (sock && sk_has_rx_data(sock->sk)) {
> >> if (!vhost_vq_avail_empty(&net->dev, rvq)) {
> >> vhost_poll_queue(&rvq->poll);
> >> } else if (unlikely(vhost_enable_notify(&net->dev, rvq))) {
> >> vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, rvq);
> >> vhost_poll_queue(&rvq->poll);
> >> }
> >> }
> > As Jason review as before, we only want rx kick when packet is pending at
> > socket but we're out of available buffers. So we just enable notify,
> > but not poll it ?
> >
> > } else if ((sock && sk_has_rx_data(sock->sk)) &&
> > !vhost_vq_avail_empty(&net->dev, rvq)) {
> > vhost_poll_queue(&rvq->poll);
> > else {
> > vhost_enable_notify(&net->dev, rvq);
> > }
>
> When vhost_enable_notify() returns true the avail becomes non-empty
> while we are enabling notify. We may delay the rx process if we don't
> check the return value of vhost_enable_notify().
I got it thanks.
> >> Also it's better to care vhost_net_disable_vq()/vhost_net_enable_vq() on
> >> tx?
> > I cant find why it is better, if necessary, we can do it.
>
> The reason is pretty simple... we are busypolling the socket so we don't
> need rx wakeups during it?
OK, but one question, how about rx? do we use the
vhost_net_disable_vq/vhost_net_ensable_vq on rx ?
> --
> Toshiaki Makita
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