linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] vhost

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <565D2D7D.4010903@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 Dec 2015 13:17:49 +0800
From:	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] vhost_net: basic polling support



On 11/30/2015 06:44 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 03:11:29PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> > This patch tries to poll for new added tx buffer or socket receive
>> > queue for a while at the end of tx/rx processing. The maximum time
>> > spent on polling were specified through a new kind of vring ioctl.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
> One further enhancement would be to actually poll
> the underlying device. This should be reasonably
> straight-forward with macvtap (especially in the
> passthrough mode).
>
>

Yes, it is. I have some patches to do this by replacing
skb_queue_empty() with sk_busy_loop() but for tap. Tests does not show
any improvement but some regression.  Maybe it's better to test macvtap.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/