[PATCH V2 2/6] vhost_net: use vhost_add_used_and_signal_n() in vhost_zerocopy_signal_used()

From: Jason Wang
Date: Fri Aug 30 2013 - 00:43:22 EST


We tend to batch the used adding and signaling in vhost_zerocopy_callback()
which may result more than 100 used buffers to be updated in
vhost_zerocopy_signal_used() in some cases. So wwitch to use
vhost_add_used_and_signal_n() to avoid multiple calls to
vhost_add_used_and_signal(). Which means much more less times of used index
updating and memory barriers.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vhost/net.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 280ee66..8a6dd0d 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ static void vhost_zerocopy_signal_used(struct vhost_net *net,
{
struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq =
container_of(vq, struct vhost_net_virtqueue, vq);
- int i;
+ int i, add;
int j = 0;

for (i = nvq->done_idx; i != nvq->upend_idx; i = (i + 1) % UIO_MAXIOV) {
@@ -289,14 +289,17 @@ static void vhost_zerocopy_signal_used(struct vhost_net *net,
vhost_net_tx_err(net);
if (VHOST_DMA_IS_DONE(vq->heads[i].len)) {
vq->heads[i].len = VHOST_DMA_CLEAR_LEN;
- vhost_add_used_and_signal(vq->dev, vq,
- vq->heads[i].id, 0);
++j;
} else
break;
}
- if (j)
- nvq->done_idx = i;
+ while (j) {
+ add = min(UIO_MAXIOV - nvq->done_idx, j);
+ vhost_add_used_and_signal_n(vq->dev, vq,
+ &vq->heads[nvq->done_idx], add);
+ nvq->done_idx = (nvq->done_idx + add) % UIO_MAXIOV;
+ j -= add;
+ }
}

static void vhost_zerocopy_callback(struct ubuf_info *ubuf, bool success)
--
1.7.1

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