Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] vhost: accelerate metadata access through vmap()

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 06:10:19PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:

Hi:

This series tries to access virtqueue metadata through kernel virtual
address instead of copy_user() friends since they had too much
overheads like checks, spec barriers or even hardware feature
toggling.

Userspace accesses through remapping tricks and next time there's a need
for a new barrier we are left to figure it out by ourselves.  I don't
like the idea I have to say.  As a first step, why don't we switch to
unsafe_put_user/unsafe_get_user etc?
That would be more of an apples to apples comparison, would it not?

Test shows about 24% improvement on TX PPS. It should benefit other
cases as well.

Please review

Jason Wang (3):
  vhost: generalize adding used elem
  vhost: fine grain userspace memory accessors
  vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address

 drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 281 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 drivers/vhost/vhost.h |  11 ++
 2 files changed, 266 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

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