netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next]vhost: fix condition check for # of outstanding dma buffers

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Message-ID: <1311108985.8573.30.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:56:25 -0700
From:	Shirley Ma <mashirle@...ibm.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jasowang@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next]vhost: fix condition check for # of
 outstanding dma buffers

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 22:09 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:37:58AM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@...ibm.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/vhost/net.c |    6 ++++--
> >  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> > index 70ac604..83cb738 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> > @@ -189,8 +189,10 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
> >                               break;
> >                       }
> >                       /* If more outstanding DMAs, queue the work */
> > -                     if (unlikely(vq->upend_idx - vq->done_idx >
> > -                                  VHOST_MAX_PEND)) {
> > +                     if (unlikely((vq->upend_idx - vq->done_idx >
> > +                                     VHOST_MAX_PEND) ||
> > +                                  (vq->upend_idx - vq->done_idx >
> > +                                      VHOST_MAX_PEND -
> UIO_MAXIOV))) {
> 
> Could you please explain why this makes sense please?
> VHOST_MAX_PEND is 128 UIO_MAXIOV is 1024 so
> the result is negative?

I thought it is equal to:

if (vq->upend_idx > vq->done_idx) 
	check vq->upend_idx - vq->done_idx > VHOST_MAX_PEND
if (vq->upend_idx < vq->done_idx)
	check vq->upend_idx + UIO_MAXIOV - vq->done_idx > VHOST_MAX_PEND
	

> I thought upend_idx - done_idx is exactly the number
> of buffers, so once we get too many we stop until
> one gets freed?

They are index, so in vhost zerocopy callback, we can get the idx right
away.

> 
> >                               tx_poll_start(net, sock);
> >                               set_bit(SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE,
> &sock->flags);
> >                               break;
> > 

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