On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 04:29:34PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 08:46:52PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:

quoted

Use one generic vhost_copy_to_user() instead of two dedicated
accessor. This will simplify the conversion to fine grain
accessors. About 2% improvement of PPS were seen during vitio-user
txonly test.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

I don't hve a problem with this patch but do you have
any idea how come removing what's supposed to be
an optimization speeds things up?

With SMAP, the 2x vhost_put_user() will also mean an extra STAC/CLAC pair,
which is probably slower than the overhead of CALL+RET to whatever flavor
of copy_user_generic() gets used.  CALL+RET is really the only overhead
since all variants of copy_user_generic() unroll accesses smaller than
64 bytes, e.g. on a 64-bit system, __copy_to_user() will write all 8
bytes in a single MOV.

Removing the special casing also eliminates a few hundred bytes of code
as well as the need for hardware to predict count==1 vs. count>1.

quoted

---
 drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 11 +----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 55e5aa662ad5..f179b5ee14c4 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c

@@ -2174,16 +2174,7 @@ static int __vhost_add_used_n(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 
 	start = vq->last_used_idx & (vq->num - 1);
 	used = vq->used->ring + start;
-	if (count == 1) {
-		if (vhost_put_user(vq, heads[0].id, &used->id)) {
-			vq_err(vq, "Failed to write used id");
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
-		if (vhost_put_user(vq, heads[0].len, &used->len)) {
-			vq_err(vq, "Failed to write used len");
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
-	} else if (vhost_copy_to_user(vq, used, heads, count * sizeof *used)) {
+	if (vhost_copy_to_user(vq, used, heads, count * sizeof *used)) {
 		vq_err(vq, "Failed to write used");
 		return -EFAULT;
 	}

-- 
2.17.1