On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 04:09:29PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> This patch tries to do several tweaks on vhost_vq_avail_empty() for a
> better performance:
> 
> - check cached avail index first which could avoid userspace memory access.
> - using unlikely() for the failure of userspace access
> - check vq->last_avail_idx instead of cached avail index as the last
>   step.
> 
> This patch is need for batching supports which needs to peek whether
> or not there's still available buffers in the ring.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>