netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 3/4] net: vhost: factor out busy polling logic to vhost_net_busy

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Date:   Wed, 4 Jul 2018 16:59:20 +0900
From:   Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp>
To:     xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com, jasowang@...hat.com
Cc:     mst@...hat.com, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Tonghao Zhang <zhangtonghao@...ichuxing.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 3/4] net: vhost: factor out busy polling logic
 to vhost_net_busy_poll()

On 2018/07/04 13:31, xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com wrote:
...
> +static void vhost_net_busy_poll(struct vhost_net *net,
> +				struct vhost_virtqueue *rvq,
> +				struct vhost_virtqueue *tvq,
> +				bool rx)
> +{
> +	unsigned long uninitialized_var(endtime);
> +	unsigned long busyloop_timeout;
> +	struct socket *sock;
> +	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = rx ? tvq : rvq;
> +
> +	mutex_lock_nested(&vq->mutex, rx ? VHOST_NET_VQ_TX: VHOST_NET_VQ_RX);
> +
> +	vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
> +	sock = rvq->private_data;
> +	busyloop_timeout = rx ? rvq->busyloop_timeout : tvq->busyloop_timeout;
> +
> +	preempt_disable();
> +	endtime = busy_clock() + busyloop_timeout;
> +	while (vhost_can_busy_poll(tvq->dev, endtime) &&
> +	       !(sock && sk_has_rx_data(sock->sk)) &&
> +	       vhost_vq_avail_empty(tvq->dev, tvq))
> +		cpu_relax();
> +	preempt_enable();
> +
> +	if ((rx && !vhost_vq_avail_empty(&net->dev, vq)) ||
> +	    (!rx && (sock && sk_has_rx_data(sock->sk)))) {
> +		vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
> +	} else if (vhost_enable_notify(&net->dev, vq) && rx) {

Hmm... on tx here sock has no rx data, so you are waiting for sock
wakeup for rx and vhost_enable_notify() seems not needed. Do you want
this actually?

} else if (rx && vhost_enable_notify(&net->dev, vq)) {

> +		vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
> +		vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
> +	}

-- 
Toshiaki Makita