On 2018/11/8 上午9:38, Tiwei Bie wrote:
+
+ if (vq->vq.num_free < descs_used) {
+ pr_debug("Can't add buf len %i - avail = %i\n",
+ descs_used, vq->vq.num_free);
+ /* FIXME: for historical reasons, we force a notify here if
+ * there are outgoing parts to the buffer. Presumably the
+ * host should service the ring ASAP. */
I don't think we have a reason to do this for packed ring.
No historical baggage there, right?
Based on the original commit log, it seems that the notify here
is just an "optimization". But I don't quite understand what does
the "the heuristics which KVM uses" refer to. If it's safe to drop
this in packed ring, I'd like to do it.
According to the commit log, it seems like a workaround of lguest
networking backend. I agree to drop it, we should not have such burden.
But we should notice that, with this removed, the compare between packed
vs split is kind of unfair. Consider the removal of lguest support
recently, maybe we can drop this for split ring as well?
Thanks
commit 44653eae1407f79dff6f52fcf594ae84cb165ec4
Author: Rusty Russell<rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jul 25 12:06:04 2008 -0500
virtio: don't always force a notification when ring is full
We force notification when the ring is full, even if the host has
indicated it doesn't want to know. This seemed like a good idea at
the time: if we fill the transmit ring, we should tell the host
immediately.
Unfortunately this logic also applies to the receiving ring, which is
refilled constantly. We should introduce real notification thesholds
to replace this logic. Meanwhile, removing the logic altogether breaks
the heuristics which KVM uses, so we use a hack: only notify if there are
outgoing parts of the new buffer.
Here are the number of exits with lguest's crappy network implementation:
Before:
network xmit 7859051 recv 236420
After:
network xmit 7858610 recv 118136
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell<rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 72bf8bc09014..21d9a62767af 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -87,8 +87,11 @@ static int vring_add_buf(struct virtqueue *_vq,
if (vq->num_free < out + in) {
pr_debug("Can't add buf len %i - avail = %i\n",
out + in, vq->num_free);
- /* We notify*even if* VRING_USED_F_NO_NOTIFY is set here. */
- vq->notify(&vq->vq);
+ /* FIXME: for historical reasons, we force a notify here if
+ * there are outgoing parts to the buffer. Presumably the
+ * host should service the ring ASAP. */
+ if (out)
+ vq->notify(&vq->vq);
END_USE(vq);
return -ENOSPC;
}
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