Re: [PATCH 4/6] virtio_net: allow specifying context for rx

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Thu Mar 30 2017 - 10:31:43 EST


On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 09:26:51AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:48:54 +0300
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > With mergeable buffers we never use s/g for rx,
> > so allow specifying context in that case.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > index 6802169..340f737 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > @@ -2044,6 +2044,7 @@ static int virtnet_find_vqs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
> > int ret = -ENOMEM;
> > int i, total_vqs;
> > const char **names;
> > + const bool *ctx;
> >
> > /* We expect 1 RX virtqueue followed by 1 TX virtqueue, followed by
> > * possible N-1 RX/TX queue pairs used in multiqueue mode, followed by
> > @@ -2062,6 +2063,13 @@ static int virtnet_find_vqs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
> > names = kmalloc(total_vqs * sizeof(*names), GFP_KERNEL);
> > if (!names)
> > goto err_names;
> > + if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs) {
> > + ctx = kzalloc(total_vqs * sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
> > + if (!ctx)
> > + goto err_ctx;
> > + } else {
> > + ctx = NULL;
> > + }
> >
> > /* Parameters for control virtqueue, if any */
> > if (vi->has_cvq) {
> > @@ -2077,9 +2085,12 @@ static int virtnet_find_vqs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
> > sprintf(vi->sq[i].name, "output.%d", i);
> > names[rxq2vq(i)] = vi->rq[i].name;
> > names[txq2vq(i)] = vi->sq[i].name;
> > + if (ctx)
> > + ctx[rxq2vq(i)] = true;
> > }
> >
> > - ret = virtio_find_vqs(vi->vdev, total_vqs, vqs, callbacks, names, NULL);
> > + ret = vi->vdev->config->find_vqs(vi->vdev, total_vqs, vqs, callbacks,
> > + names, ctx, NULL);
>
> virtio_find_vqs_ctx()? (Needs to be exported, obviously.)

I guess I can do that but there's a single user ATM.
Do you think it's worth doing right now, or wait until
it gets more users?


> > if (ret)
> > goto err_find;
> >
> > @@ -2101,6 +2112,8 @@ static int virtnet_find_vqs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
> > return 0;
> >
> > err_find:
> > + kfree(ctx);
> > +err_ctx:
> > kfree(names);
> > err_names:
> > kfree(callbacks);