From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] vhost: accelerate metadata access through vmap()
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:16:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181214101356-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181213101022.12475-1-jasowang@redhat.com>
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.
>
> Test shows about 24% improvement on TX PPS. It should benefit other
> cases as well.
BTW if the issue is all the error checking, maybe we should
consider using something like uaccess_catch and check
in a single place.
> 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(-)
>
> --
> 2.17.1
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-14 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-13 10:10 [PATCH net-next 0/3] vhost: accelerate metadata access through vmap() Jason Wang
2018-12-13 10:10 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] vhost: generalize adding used elem Jason Wang
2018-12-13 19:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-14 4:00 ` Jason Wang
2018-12-13 10:10 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] vhost: fine grain userspace memory accessors Jason Wang
2018-12-13 10:10 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address Jason Wang
2018-12-13 15:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-13 21:18 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-12-13 21:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-14 3:57 ` Jason Wang
2018-12-14 12:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-24 7:53 ` Jason Wang
2018-12-24 18:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-25 10:05 ` Jason Wang
2018-12-25 12:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-26 3:57 ` Jason Wang
2018-12-26 15:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-27 9:39 ` Jason Wang
2018-12-30 18:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-02 11:38 ` Jason Wang
2018-12-15 21:15 ` David Miller
2018-12-14 14:48 ` kbuild test robot
2018-12-13 15:27 ` [PATCH net-next 0/3] vhost: accelerate metadata access through vmap() Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-14 3:42 ` Jason Wang
2018-12-14 12:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-14 15:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-24 8:32 ` Jason Wang
2018-12-24 18:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-25 10:09 ` Jason Wang
2018-12-25 12:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-26 3:59 ` Jason Wang
2018-12-13 20:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-14 4:29 ` Jason Wang
2018-12-14 12:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-15 19:43 ` David Miller
2018-12-16 19:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-24 8:44 ` Jason Wang
2018-12-24 19:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-14 15:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
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