[PATCH] vhost_net: remove tx polling state

From: Jason Wang
Date: Thu Apr 11 2013 - 03:01:48 EST


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.

This patch also removes the all tx starting/stopping code in tx path according
to Michael's suggestion.

Netperf test shows almost the same result in stream test, but gets improvements
on TCP_RR tests (both zerocopy or copy) especially on low load cases.

Tested between multiqueue kvm guest and external host with two direct
connected 82599s.

zerocopy disabled:

sessions|transaction rates|normalize|
before/after/+improvements
1 | 9510.24/11727.29/+23.3% | 693.54/887.68/+28.0% |
25| 192931.50/241729.87/+25.3% | 2376.80/2771.70/+16.6% |
50| 277634.64/291905.76/+5% | 3118.36/3230.11/+3.6% |

zerocopy enabled:

sessions|transaction rates|normalize|
before/after/+improvements
1 | 7318.33/11929.76/+63.0% | 521.86/843.30/+61.6% |
25| 167264.88/242422.15/+44.9% | 2181.60/2788.16/+27.8% |
50| 272181.02/294347.04/+8.1% | 3071.56/3257.85/+6.1% |

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vhost/net.c | 74 ++++---------------------------------------------
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 3 ++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index ec6fb3f..87c216c 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -64,20 +64,10 @@ enum {
VHOST_NET_VQ_MAX = 2,
};

-enum vhost_net_poll_state {
- VHOST_NET_POLL_DISABLED = 0,
- VHOST_NET_POLL_STARTED = 1,
- VHOST_NET_POLL_STOPPED = 2,
-};
-
struct vhost_net {
struct vhost_dev dev;
struct vhost_virtqueue vqs[VHOST_NET_VQ_MAX];
struct vhost_poll poll[VHOST_NET_VQ_MAX];
- /* Tells us whether we are polling a socket for TX.
- * We only do this when socket buffer fills up.
- * Protected by tx vq lock. */
- enum vhost_net_poll_state tx_poll_state;
/* Number of TX recently submitted.
* Protected by tx vq lock. */
unsigned tx_packets;
@@ -155,28 +145,6 @@ static void copy_iovec_hdr(const struct iovec *from, struct iovec *to,
}
}

-/* Caller must have TX VQ lock */
-static void tx_poll_stop(struct vhost_net *net)
-{
- if (likely(net->tx_poll_state != VHOST_NET_POLL_STARTED))
- return;
- vhost_poll_stop(net->poll + VHOST_NET_VQ_TX);
- net->tx_poll_state = VHOST_NET_POLL_STOPPED;
-}
-
-/* Caller must have TX VQ lock */
-static int tx_poll_start(struct vhost_net *net, struct socket *sock)
-{
- int ret;
-
- if (unlikely(net->tx_poll_state != VHOST_NET_POLL_STOPPED))
- return 0;
- ret = vhost_poll_start(net->poll + VHOST_NET_VQ_TX, sock->file);
- if (!ret)
- net->tx_poll_state = VHOST_NET_POLL_STARTED;
- return ret;
-}
-
/* In case of DMA done not in order in lower device driver for some reason.
* upend_idx is used to track end of used idx, done_idx is used to track head
* of used idx. Once lower device DMA done contiguously, we will signal KVM
@@ -242,7 +210,7 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
.msg_flags = MSG_DONTWAIT,
};
size_t len, total_len = 0;
- int err, wmem;
+ int err;
size_t hdr_size;
struct socket *sock;
struct vhost_ubuf_ref *uninitialized_var(ubufs);
@@ -253,19 +221,9 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
if (!sock)
return;

- wmem = atomic_read(&sock->sk->sk_wmem_alloc);
- if (wmem >= sock->sk->sk_sndbuf) {
- mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
- tx_poll_start(net, sock);
- mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
- return;
- }
-
mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);

- if (wmem < sock->sk->sk_sndbuf / 2)
- tx_poll_stop(net);
hdr_size = vq->vhost_hlen;
zcopy = vq->ubufs;

@@ -285,23 +243,14 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
if (head == vq->num) {
int num_pends;

- wmem = atomic_read(&sock->sk->sk_wmem_alloc);
- if (wmem >= sock->sk->sk_sndbuf * 3 / 4) {
- tx_poll_start(net, sock);
- set_bit(SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE, &sock->flags);
- break;
- }
/* If more outstanding DMAs, queue the work.
* Handle upend_idx wrap around
*/
num_pends = likely(vq->upend_idx >= vq->done_idx) ?
(vq->upend_idx - vq->done_idx) :
(vq->upend_idx + UIO_MAXIOV - vq->done_idx);
- if (unlikely(num_pends > VHOST_MAX_PEND)) {
- tx_poll_start(net, sock);
- set_bit(SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE, &sock->flags);
+ if (unlikely(num_pends > VHOST_MAX_PEND))
break;
- }
if (unlikely(vhost_enable_notify(&net->dev, vq))) {
vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
continue;
@@ -364,8 +313,6 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
UIO_MAXIOV;
}
vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, 1);
- if (err == -EAGAIN || err == -ENOBUFS)
- tx_poll_start(net, sock);
break;
}
if (err != len)
@@ -628,7 +575,6 @@ static int vhost_net_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *f)

vhost_poll_init(n->poll + VHOST_NET_VQ_TX, handle_tx_net, POLLOUT, dev);
vhost_poll_init(n->poll + VHOST_NET_VQ_RX, handle_rx_net, POLLIN, dev);
- n->tx_poll_state = VHOST_NET_POLL_DISABLED;

f->private_data = n;

@@ -638,32 +584,24 @@ static int vhost_net_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *f)
static void vhost_net_disable_vq(struct vhost_net *n,
struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
{
+ struct vhost_poll *poll = n->poll + (vq - n->vqs);
if (!vq->private_data)
return;
- if (vq == n->vqs + VHOST_NET_VQ_TX) {
- tx_poll_stop(n);
- n->tx_poll_state = VHOST_NET_POLL_DISABLED;
- } else
- vhost_poll_stop(n->poll + VHOST_NET_VQ_RX);
+ vhost_poll_stop(poll);
}

static int vhost_net_enable_vq(struct vhost_net *n,
struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
{
+ struct vhost_poll *poll = n->poll + (vq - n->vqs);
struct socket *sock;
- int ret;

sock = rcu_dereference_protected(vq->private_data,
lockdep_is_held(&vq->mutex));
if (!sock)
return 0;
- if (vq == n->vqs + VHOST_NET_VQ_TX) {
- n->tx_poll_state = VHOST_NET_POLL_STOPPED;
- ret = tx_poll_start(n, sock);
- } else
- ret = vhost_poll_start(n->poll + VHOST_NET_VQ_RX, sock->file);

- return ret;
+ return vhost_poll_start(poll, sock->file);
}

static struct socket *vhost_net_stop_vq(struct vhost_net *n,
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 9759249..4eecdb8 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ int vhost_poll_start(struct vhost_poll *poll, struct file *file)
unsigned long mask;
int ret = 0;

+ if (poll->wqh)
+ return 0;
+
mask = file->f_op->poll(file, &poll->table);
if (mask)
vhost_poll_wakeup(&poll->wait, 0, 0, (void *)mask);
--
1.7.1

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