On 2019/1/5 上午8:33, Sean Christopherson wrote:

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

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

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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.

Yes, I don't measure, but STAC/CALC is pretty expensive when we are do 
very small copies based on the result of nosmap PPS.

Thanks