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SubjectRe: [PATCH] vhost_net: remove tx polling state
On 03/11/2013 04:29 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 03:09:10PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> On 03/11/2013 12:50 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 12:31:56PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>>> After commit 2b8b328b61c799957a456a5a8dab8cc7dea68575 (vhost_net: handle polling
>>>> errors when setting backend), we in fact track the polling state through
>>>> poll->wqh, so there's no need to duplicate the work with an extra
>>>> vhost_net_polling_state. So this patch removes this and make the code simpler.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
>>> I'd prefer a more radical approach, since I think it can be even
>>> simpler: tap and macvtap backends both only send events when tx queue
>>> overruns which should almost never happen.
>>>
>>> So let's just start polling when VQ is enabled
>>> drop all poll_start/stop calls on data path.
>> I think then it may damage the performance at least for tx. We
>> conditionally enable the tx polling in the past to reduce the
>> unnecessary wakeups of vhost thead when zerocopy or sndbuf is used. If
>> we don't stop the polling, after each packet were transmitted,
>> tap/macvtap will try to wakeup the vhost thread.
> It won't actually.
> static void macvtap_sock_write_space(struct sock *sk)
> {
> wait_queue_head_t *wqueue;
>
> if (!sock_writeable(sk) ||
> !test_and_clear_bit(SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE, &sk->sk_socket->flags))
> return;
>
> wqueue = sk_sleep(sk);
> if (wqueue && waitqueue_active(wqueue))
> wake_up_interruptible_poll(wqueue, POLLOUT | POLLWRNORM | POLLWRBAND);
> }
>
> As long as SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE is not set, there's no wakeup.
>

Ok, will send V2 which removes all the polling start/stop in datapath.

Thanks


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