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Revision v3 of 2 in this series.

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[PATCH V3 2/2] vhost_net: conditionally enable tx polling

From: Jason Wang <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-01 05:57:05
Also in: kvm, lkml, netdev
Subsystem: the rest, virtio host (vhost) · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, "Michael S. Tsirkin", Jason Wang

We always poll tx for socket, this is sub optimal since:

- it will be only used when we exceed the sndbuf of the socket.
- since we use two independent polls for tx and vq, this will slightly
  increase the waitqueue traversing time and more important, vhost
  could not benefit from commit
  9e641bdcfa4ef4d6e2fbaa59c1be0ad5d1551fd5 ("net-tun: restructure
  tun_do_read for better sleep/wakeup efficiency") even if we've
  stopped rx polling during handle_rx since tx poll were still left in
  the waitqueue.

Fix this by conditionally enable tx polling only when -EAGAIN were
met.

Test shows about 8% improvement on guest rx pps.

Before: ~1350000
After:  ~1460000

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <redacted>
---
 drivers/vhost/net.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 1d3e45f..e75ffcc 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
 		goto out;
 
 	vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
+	vhost_net_disable_vq(net, vq);
 
 	hdr_size = nvq->vhost_hlen;
 	zcopy = nvq->ubufs;
@@ -459,6 +460,8 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
 					% UIO_MAXIOV;
 			}
 			vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, 1);
+			if (err == -EAGAIN)
+				vhost_net_enable_vq(net, vq);
 			break;
 		}
 		if (err != len)
-- 
1.8.3.1
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