linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V4 5/5] vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 22:00:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190124215912-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <335ba55b-087f-4b35-6311-540070b9647f@redhat.com>

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:07:54PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > Meanwhile, could you pls post data comparing this last patch with the
> > below?  This removes the speculation barrier replacing it with a
> > (useless but at least more lightweight) data dependency.
> 
> 
> SMAP off
> 
> Your patch: 7.2MPPs
> 
> vmap: 7.4Mpps

OK so while we keep looking into vmap, why don't we merge something like
the below?  Seems quite straight forward ...


> I don't test SMAP on, since it will be much slow for sure.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > index bac939af8dbb..352ee7e14476 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > @@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ static int vhost_copy_to_user(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, void __user *to,
> >   	int ret;
> >   	if (!vq->iotlb)
> > -		return __copy_to_user(to, from, size);
> > +		return copy_to_user(to, from, size);
> >   	else {
> >   		/* This function should be called after iotlb
> >   		 * prefetch, which means we're sure that all vq
> > @@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ static int vhost_copy_to_user(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, void __user *to,
> >   				     VHOST_ADDR_USED);
> >   		if (uaddr)
> > -			return __copy_to_user(uaddr, from, size);
> > +			return copy_to_user(uaddr, from, size);
> >   		ret = translate_desc(vq, (u64)(uintptr_t)to, size, vq->iotlb_iov,
> >   				     ARRAY_SIZE(vq->iotlb_iov),
> > @@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ static int vhost_copy_from_user(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, void *to,
> >   	int ret;
> >   	if (!vq->iotlb)
> > -		return __copy_from_user(to, from, size);
> > +		return copy_from_user(to, from, size);
> >   	else {
> >   		/* This function should be called after iotlb
> >   		 * prefetch, which means we're sure that vq
> > @@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ static int vhost_copy_from_user(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, void *to,
> >   		struct iov_iter f;
> >   		if (uaddr)
> > -			return __copy_from_user(to, uaddr, size);
> > +			return copy_from_user(to, uaddr, size);
> >   		ret = translate_desc(vq, (u64)(uintptr_t)from, size, vq->iotlb_iov,
> >   				     ARRAY_SIZE(vq->iotlb_iov),
> > @@ -855,13 +855,13 @@ static inline void __user *__vhost_get_user(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> >   ({ \
> >   	int ret = -EFAULT; \
> >   	if (!vq->iotlb) { \
> > -		ret = __put_user(x, ptr); \
> > +		ret = put_user(x, ptr); \
> >   	} else { \
> >   		__typeof__(ptr) to = \
> >   			(__typeof__(ptr)) __vhost_get_user(vq, ptr,	\
> >   					  sizeof(*ptr), VHOST_ADDR_USED); \
> >   		if (to != NULL) \
> > -			ret = __put_user(x, to); \
> > +			ret = put_user(x, to); \
> >   		else \
> >   			ret = -EFAULT;	\
> >   	} \
> > @@ -872,14 +872,14 @@ static inline void __user *__vhost_get_user(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> >   ({ \
> >   	int ret; \
> >   	if (!vq->iotlb) { \
> > -		ret = __get_user(x, ptr); \
> > +		ret = get_user(x, ptr); \
> >   	} else { \
> >   		__typeof__(ptr) from = \
> >   			(__typeof__(ptr)) __vhost_get_user(vq, ptr, \
> >   							   sizeof(*ptr), \
> >   							   type); \
> >   		if (from != NULL) \
> > -			ret = __get_user(x, from); \
> > +			ret = get_user(x, from); \
> >   		else \
> >   			ret = -EFAULT; \
> >   	} \

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-25  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-23  9:55 [PATCH net-next V4 0/5] vhost: accelerate metadata access through vmap() Jason Wang
2019-01-23  9:55 ` [PATCH net-next V4 1/5] vhost: generalize adding used elem Jason Wang
2019-01-23  9:55 ` [PATCH net-next V4 2/5] vhost: fine grain userspace memory accessors Jason Wang
2019-01-23  9:55 ` [PATCH net-next V4 3/5] vhost: rename vq_iotlb_prefetch() to vq_meta_prefetch() Jason Wang
2019-01-23  9:55 ` [PATCH net-next V4 4/5] vhost: introduce helpers to get the size of metadata area Jason Wang
2019-01-23  9:55 ` [PATCH net-next V4 5/5] vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address Jason Wang
2019-01-23 14:08   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-24  4:07     ` Jason Wang
2019-01-24  4:11       ` Jason Wang
2019-01-24  4:53         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-25  2:33           ` Jason Wang
2019-01-24  4:51       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-25  3:00       ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2019-01-25  9:16         ` Jason Wang
2019-01-25  3:03   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-25  9:21     ` Jason Wang
2019-01-25  9:24     ` Jason Wang
2019-01-23 13:58 ` [PATCH net-next V4 0/5] vhost: accelerate metadata access through vmap() Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-23 17:24   ` David Miller
2019-01-26 22:37 ` David Miller
2019-01-27  0:31   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-29  2:34     ` Jason Wang

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20190124215912-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org \
    --to=mst@redhat.com \
    --cc=jasowang@redhat.com \
    --cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).