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From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Wei Xu <wexu@redhat.com>,
	Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] vhost_net: conditionally enable tx polling
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 20:51:36 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c69accc4-4a35-0501-8a99-ab7821365cd8@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171031182637-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>



On 2017年11月01日 00:36, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 06:27:20PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> We always poll tx for socket, this is sub optimal since:
>>
>> - we only want to be notified when sndbuf is available
>> - this will slightly increase the waitqueue traversing time and more
>>    important, vhost could not benefit from commit
>>    commit 9e641bdcfa4e
>>    ("net-tun: restructure tun_do_read for better sleep/wakeup efficiency")
>>    even if we've stopped rx polling during handle_rx() since tx poll
>>    were still left in the waitqueue.
>>
>> Pktgen from a remote host to VM over mlx4 shows 5.5% improvements on
>> rx PPS. (from 1.27Mpps to 1.34Mpps)
>>
>> Cc: Wei Xu <wexu@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
>> ---
> Now that vhost_poll_stop happens on data path
> a lot, I'd say
>          if (poll->wqh)
> there should be unlikely().

It has been there since 8241a1e466cd ("vhost_net: stop polling socket 
during rx processing"). So it will be used for rx path too which 
unlikely() does not work as well as the case in tx.


>
>
>>   drivers/vhost/net.c | 11 ++++++++---
>>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
>> index 68677d9..286c3e4 100644
>> --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
>> +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
>> @@ -471,6 +471,7 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
>>   		goto out;
>>   
>>   	vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
>> +	vhost_net_disable_vq(net, vq);
>>   
>>   	hdr_size = nvq->vhost_hlen;
>>   	zcopy = nvq->ubufs;
>> @@ -556,6 +557,8 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
>>   					% UIO_MAXIOV;
>>   			}
>>   			vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, 1);
>> +			if (err == -EAGAIN)
>> +				vhost_net_enable_vq(net, vq);
>>   			break;
>>   		}
>>   		if (err != len)
> I would probably just enable it unconditionally here. Why not?
>

I thought we only care about the case of tun_sock_write_space() and for 
the errors other than -EAGAIN, they have nothing to do with polling.

>> @@ -1145,9 +1148,11 @@ static long vhost_net_set_backend(struct vhost_net *n, unsigned index, int fd)
>>   		r = vhost_vq_init_access(vq);
>>   		if (r)
>>   			goto err_used;
>> -		r = vhost_net_enable_vq(n, vq);
>> -		if (r)
>> -			goto err_used;
>> +		if (index == VHOST_NET_VQ_RX) {
>> +			r = vhost_net_enable_vq(n, vq);
>> +			if (r)
>> +				goto err_used;
>> +		}
>>   
>>   		oldubufs = nvq->ubufs;
>>   		nvq->ubufs = ubufs;
> This last chunk seems questionable. If queue has stuff in it
> when we connect the backend, we'll miss a wakeup.
> I suspect this can happen during migration.

Unless qemu pass a tap which s already had pending tx packets.

I can remove this chuck, but if guest does not transmit any packet, rx 
can't benefit from this.

Thanks

>
>
>> -- 
>> 2.7.4

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-01 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-31 10:27 [PATCH net-next] vhost_net: conditionally enable tx polling Jason Wang
2017-10-31 16:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-11-01 12:51   ` Jason Wang [this message]
2017-11-01 15:03     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-11-02  3:16       ` Jason Wang

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