Re: [PATCH net-next 8/8] vhost_net: use lockless peeking for skb array during busy polling

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On 2017年03月30日 10:33, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 10:16:15AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:

On 2017年03月29日 20:07, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:04:47PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
For the socket that exports its skb array, we can use lockless polling
to avoid touching spinlock during busy polling.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
   drivers/vhost/net.c | 7 +++++--
   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 53f09f2..41153a3 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -551,10 +551,13 @@ static int peek_head_len(struct vhost_net_virtqueue *rvq, struct sock *sk)
   	return len;
   }
-static int sk_has_rx_data(struct sock *sk)
+static int sk_has_rx_data(struct vhost_net_virtqueue *rvq, struct sock *sk)
   {
   	struct socket *sock = sk->sk_socket;
+	if (rvq->rx_array)
+		return !__skb_array_empty(rvq->rx_array);
+
   	if (sock->ops->peek_len)
   		return sock->ops->peek_len(sock);
I don't see which patch adds __skb_array_empty.
This is not something new, it was introduced by ad69f35d1dc0a ("skb_array:
array based FIFO for skbs").

Thanks
Same comment about a compiler barrier applies then.

Ok, rethink about this, since skb_array could be resized, using lockless version seems wrong.

For the comment of using compiler barrier, caller (vhost_net_rx_peek_head_len) uses cpu_relax(). But I haven't figured out why a compiler barrier is needed here. Could you please explain?

Thanks


@@ -579,7 +582,7 @@ static int vhost_net_rx_peek_head_len(struct vhost_net *net,
   		endtime = busy_clock() + vq->busyloop_timeout;
   		while (vhost_can_busy_poll(&net->dev, endtime) &&
-		       !sk_has_rx_data(sk) &&
+		       !sk_has_rx_data(rvq, sk) &&
   		       vhost_vq_avail_empty(&net->dev, vq))
   			cpu_relax();
--
2.7.4




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