From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> Amortize the cost of virtual interrupts by doing both rx and tx work on reception of a receive interrupt if tx napi is enabled. With VIRTIO_F_EVENT_IDX, this suppresses most explicit tx completion interrupts for bidirectional workloads. Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index 95d938e82080..af830eb212bf 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -1030,12 +1030,34 @@ static int virtnet_receive(struct receive_queue *rq, int budget) return received; } +static void free_old_xmit_skbs(struct send_queue *sq); + +static void virtnet_poll_cleantx(struct receive_queue *rq) +{ + struct virtnet_info *vi = rq->vq->vdev->priv; + unsigned int index = vq2rxq(rq->vq); + struct send_queue *sq = &vi->sq[index]; + struct netdev_queue *txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(vi->dev, index); + + if (!sq->napi.weight) + return; + + __netif_tx_lock(txq, smp_processor_id()); + free_old_xmit_skbs(sq); + __netif_tx_unlock(txq); + + if (sq->vq->num_free >= 2 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS) + netif_wake_subqueue(vi->dev, vq2txq(sq->vq)); +} + static int virtnet_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) { struct receive_queue *rq = container_of(napi, struct receive_queue, napi); unsigned int received; + virtnet_poll_cleantx(rq); + received = virtnet_receive(rq, budget); /* Out of packets? */ -- 2.12.2.564.g063fe858b8-goog _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization