On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 4:02 AM, Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch introduces vhost_prefetch_desc_indices() which could batch
> descriptor indices fetching and used ring updating. This intends to
> reduce the cache misses of indices fetching and updating and reduce
> cache line bounce when virtqueue is almost full. copy_to_user() was
> used in order to benefit from modern cpus that support fast string
> copy. Batched virtqueue processing will be the first user.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index f87ec75..8424166d 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -2437,6 +2437,61 @@ struct vhost_msg_node *vhost_dequeue_msg(struct vhost_dev *dev,
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_dequeue_msg);
>
> +int vhost_prefetch_desc_indices(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> + struct vring_used_elem *heads,
> + u16 num, bool used_update)
> +{
> + int ret, ret2;
> + u16 last_avail_idx, last_used_idx, total, copied;
> + __virtio16 avail_idx;
> + struct vring_used_elem __user *used;
> + int i;
> +
> + if (unlikely(vhost_get_avail(vq, avail_idx, &vq->avail->idx))) {
> + vq_err(vq, "Failed to access avail idx at %p\n",
> + &vq->avail->idx);
> + return -EFAULT;
> + }
> + last_avail_idx = vq->last_avail_idx & (vq->num - 1);
> + vq->avail_idx = vhost16_to_cpu(vq, avail_idx);
> + total = vq->avail_idx - vq->last_avail_idx;
> + ret = total = min(total, num);
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < ret; i++) {
> + ret2 = vhost_get_avail(vq, heads[i].id,
> + &vq->avail->ring[last_avail_idx]);
> + if (unlikely(ret2)) {
> + vq_err(vq, "Failed to get descriptors\n");
> + return -EFAULT;
> + }
> + last_avail_idx = (last_avail_idx + 1) & (vq->num - 1);
> + }
This is understandably very similar to the existing logic in vhost_get_vq_desc.
Can that be extracted to a helper to avoid code duplication?
Perhaps one helper to update vq->avail_idx and return num, and
another to call vhost_get_avail one or more times.
> +
> + if (!used_update)
> + return ret;
> +
> + last_used_idx = vq->last_used_idx & (vq->num - 1);
> + while (total) {
> + copied = min((u16)(vq->num - last_used_idx), total);
> + ret2 = vhost_copy_to_user(vq,
> + &vq->used->ring[last_used_idx],
> + &heads[ret - total],
> + copied * sizeof(*used));
> +
> + if (unlikely(ret2)) {
> + vq_err(vq, "Failed to update used ring!\n");
> + return -EFAULT;
> + }
> +
> + last_used_idx = 0;
> + total -= copied;
> + }
This second part seems unrelated and could be a separate function?
Also, no need for ret2 and double assignment "ret = total =" if not
modifying total
in the the second loop:
for (i = 0; i < total; ) {
...
i += copied;
}
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