Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] vhost_net: basic polling support

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On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 01:04:03PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/01/2015 10:43 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 01:17:49PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11/30/2015 06:44 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 03:11:29PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> >>>>> This patch tries to poll for new added tx buffer or socket receive
> >>>>> queue for a while at the end of tx/rx processing. The maximum time
> >>>>> spent on polling were specified through a new kind of vring ioctl.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> One further enhancement would be to actually poll
> >>> the underlying device. This should be reasonably
> >>> straight-forward with macvtap (especially in the
> >>> passthrough mode).
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Yes, it is. I have some patches to do this by replacing
> >> skb_queue_empty() with sk_busy_loop() but for tap.
> > We probably don't want to do this unconditionally, though.
> >
> >> Tests does not show
> >> any improvement but some regression.
> > Did you add code to call sk_mark_napi_id on tap then?
> > sk_busy_loop won't do anything useful without.
> 
> Yes I did. Probably something wrong elsewhere.

Is this for guest-to-guest? the patch to do napi
for tap is still not upstream due to minor performance
regression.  Want me to repost it?

> >
> >>  Maybe it's better to test macvtap.
> > Same thing ...
> >
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