[PATCH 4.9 20/78] vhost_net: correctly check tx avail during rx busy polling

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit 8b949bef9172ca69d918e93509a4ecb03d0355e0 ]

We check tx avail through vhost_enable_notify() in the past which is
wrong since it only checks whether or not guest has filled more
available buffer since last avail idx synchronization which was just
done by vhost_vq_avail_empty() before. What we really want is checking
pending buffers in the avail ring. Fix this by calling
vhost_vq_avail_empty() instead.

This issue could be noticed by doing netperf TCP_RR benchmark as
client from guest (but not host). With this fix, TCP_RR from guest to
localhost restores from 1375.91 trans per sec to 55235.28 trans per
sec on my laptop (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5600U CPU @ 2.60GHz).

Fixes: 030881372460 ("vhost_net: basic polling support")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/vhost/net.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -537,8 +537,13 @@ static int vhost_net_rx_peek_head_len(st
 
 		preempt_enable();
 
-		if (vhost_enable_notify(&net->dev, vq))
+		if (!vhost_vq_avail_empty(&net->dev, vq))
 			vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
+		else if (unlikely(vhost_enable_notify(&net->dev, vq))) {
+			vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
+			vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
+		}
+
 		mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
 
 		len = peek_head_len(sk);