On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:53 AM Toshiaki Makita
<makita.toshi...@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>
> On 2018/07/24 2:31, Tonghao Zhang wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 10:20 PM Toshiaki Makita
> > <toshiaki.maki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 18/07/23 (月) 21:43, Tonghao Zhang wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 5:58 PM Toshiaki Makita
> >>> <makita.toshi...@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 2018/07/22 3:04, xiangxia.m....@gmail.com wrote:
> >>>>> From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m....@gmail.com>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 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 <xiangxia.m....@gmail.com>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>> ...
> >>>>> +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 ?
>
> If we are busypolling the sock tx buf? I'm not sure if polling it
> improves the performance.
Not the sock tx buff, when we are busypolling in handle_rx, we will
check the tx vring via vhost_vq_avail_empty.
So, should we the disable tvq, e.g. vhost_net_disable_vq(net, tvq)?> --
> Toshiaki Makita
>
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