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SubjectRe: [RFC V3 PATCH 0/8] Packed ring for vhost
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 03:31:20PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 01:34:52PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > Hi all:
> >
> > This RFC implement packed ring layout. The code were tested with
> > Tiwei's RFC V2 a thttps://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/1/48. Some fixups and
> > tweaks were needed on top of Tiwei's code to make it run. TCP stream
> > and pktgen does not show obvious difference compared with split ring.
>
> I have to ask then - what is the benefit of this?

You can use this with dpdk within guest.
The DPDK version did see a performance improvement so hopefully with
future versions this will too.

> >
> > Changes from V2:
> > - do not use & in checking desc_event_flags
> > - off should be most significant bit
> > - remove the workaround of mergeable buffer for dpdk prototype
> > - id should be in the last descriptor in the chain
> > - keep _F_WRITE for write descriptor when adding used
> > - device flags updating should use ADDR_USED type
> > - return error on unexpected unavail descriptor in a chain
> > - return false in vhost_ve_avail_empty is descriptor is available
> > - track last seen avail_wrap_counter
> > - correctly examine available descriptor in get_indirect_packed()
> > - vhost_idx_diff should return u16 instead of bool
> >
> > Changes from V1:
> >
> > - Refactor vhost used elem code to avoid open coding on used elem
> > - Event suppression support (compile test only).
> > - Indirect descriptor support (compile test only).
> > - Zerocopy support.
> > - vIOMMU support.
> > - SCSI/VSOCK support (compile test only).
> > - Fix several bugs
> >
> > For simplicity, I don't implement batching or other optimizations.
> >
> > Please review.
> >
> > Jason Wang (8):
> > vhost: move get_rx_bufs to vhost.c
> > vhost: hide used ring layout from device
> > vhost: do not use vring_used_elem
> > vhost_net: do not explicitly manipulate vhost_used_elem
> > vhost: vhost_put_user() can accept metadata type
> > virtio: introduce packed ring defines
> > vhost: packed ring support
> > vhost: event suppression for packed ring
> >
> > drivers/vhost/net.c | 136 ++----
> > drivers/vhost/scsi.c | 62 +--
> > drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 824 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> > drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 47 ++-
> > drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 42 +-
> > include/uapi/linux/virtio_config.h | 9 +
> > include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h | 32 ++
> > 7 files changed, 926 insertions(+), 226 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >

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