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authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>2017-01-18 15:02:02 +0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-01-18 16:35:30 -0500
commit0ed005ce02fa0a88e5e6b7b5f7ff452171881610 (patch)
treec169b416a25aec7f553c9b999771580fadf86452 /drivers/vhost
parent275bf960ac69744430a6725a4ed7f50d36cf1441 (diff)
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vhost_net: tx batching
This patch tries to utilize tuntap rx batching by peeking the tx virtqueue during transmission, if there's more available buffers in the virtqueue, set MSG_MORE flag for a hint for backend (e.g tuntap) to batch the packets. Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/vhost')
-rw-r--r--drivers/vhost/net.c23
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 5dc34653274a..c42e9c305134 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -351,6 +351,15 @@ static int vhost_net_tx_get_vq_desc(struct vhost_net *net,
return r;
}
+static bool vhost_exceeds_maxpend(struct vhost_net *net)
+{
+ struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq = &net->vqs[VHOST_NET_VQ_TX];
+ struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = &nvq->vq;
+
+ return (nvq->upend_idx + vq->num - VHOST_MAX_PEND) % UIO_MAXIOV
+ == nvq->done_idx;
+}
+
/* Expects to be always run from workqueue - which acts as
* read-size critical section for our kind of RCU. */
static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
@@ -394,8 +403,7 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
/* If more outstanding DMAs, queue the work.
* Handle upend_idx wrap around
*/
- if (unlikely((nvq->upend_idx + vq->num - VHOST_MAX_PEND)
- % UIO_MAXIOV == nvq->done_idx))
+ if (unlikely(vhost_exceeds_maxpend(net)))
break;
head = vhost_net_tx_get_vq_desc(net, vq, vq->iov,
@@ -454,6 +462,16 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
msg.msg_control = NULL;
ubufs = NULL;
}
+
+ total_len += len;
+ if (total_len < VHOST_NET_WEIGHT &&
+ !vhost_vq_avail_empty(&net->dev, vq) &&
+ likely(!vhost_exceeds_maxpend(net))) {
+ msg.msg_flags |= MSG_MORE;
+ } else {
+ msg.msg_flags &= ~MSG_MORE;
+ }
+
/* TODO: Check specific error and bomb out unless ENOBUFS? */
err = sock->ops->sendmsg(sock, &msg, len);
if (unlikely(err < 0)) {
@@ -472,7 +490,6 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
vhost_add_used_and_signal(&net->dev, vq, head, 0);
else
vhost_zerocopy_signal_used(net, vq);
- total_len += len;
vhost_net_tx_packet(net);
if (unlikely(total_len >= VHOST_NET_WEIGHT)) {
vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);