Re: [V2 PATCH 9/9] vhost: zerocopy: poll vq in zerocopy callback

From: Shirley Ma
Date: Tue May 15 2012 - 12:51:37 EST


On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 11:42 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> We add used and signal guest in worker thread but did not poll the
> virtqueue
> during the zero copy callback. This may lead the missing of adding and
> signalling during zerocopy. Solve this by polling the virtqueue and
> let it
> wakeup the worker during callback.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index 947f00d..7b75fdf 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -1604,6 +1604,7 @@ void vhost_zerocopy_callback(void *arg)
> struct vhost_ubuf_ref *ubufs = ubuf->arg;
> struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = ubufs->vq;
>
> + vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
> /* set len = 1 to mark this desc buffers done DMA */
> vq->heads[ubuf->desc].len = VHOST_DMA_DONE_LEN;
> kref_put(&ubufs->kref, vhost_zerocopy_done_signal);

Doing so, we might have redundant vhost_poll_queue(). Do you know in
which scenario there might be missing of adding and signaling during
zerocopy?

Thanks
Shirley

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