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From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
	davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [V2 PATCH 9/9] vhost: zerocopy: poll vq in zerocopy callback
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 18:13:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBB66C6.2020701@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337616766.12999.81.camel@oc3660625478.ibm.com>

On 05/22/2012 12:12 AM, Shirley Ma wrote:
> Then it could be too early for vhost to notify guest anywhere in
> handle_tx for zerocopy. Then we might need to remove any notification in
> handle_tx for zerocopy to vhost zerocopy callback instead.
>
> Adding vhost_poll_queue in vhost zerocopy callback unconditionally would
> consume unnecessary cpu.
>
> We need to think about a better solution here.

A possible idea is only call vhost_poll_queue only when the packet of 
used_event were sent: if there's no out-of-order completion vhost could 
signal the guest; if there is, let the pending packets before used_event 
call vhost_poll_queue.
> Thanks
> Shirley


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-22 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-02  3:41 [V2 PATCH 0/9] vhost/macvtap zeropcopy fixes Jason Wang
2012-05-02  3:41 ` [V2 PATCH 1/9] macvtap: zerocopy: fix offset calculation when building skb Jason Wang
2012-05-15 17:17   ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-02  3:41 ` [V2 PATCH 2/9] macvtap: zerocopy: fix truesize underestimation Jason Wang
2012-05-15 17:26   ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-16  3:04     ` Jason Wang
2012-05-16 15:03       ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-17  2:59         ` Jason Wang
2012-05-17 15:28           ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-18 10:10             ` Jason Wang
2012-05-18 15:22               ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-21  6:15                 ` Jason Wang
2012-05-02  3:41 ` [V2 PATCH 3/9] macvtap: zerocopy: put page when fail to get all requested user pages Jason Wang
2012-05-15 17:33   ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-02  3:42 ` [V2 PATCH 4/9] macvtap: zerocopy: set SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY only when skb is built successfully Jason Wang
2012-05-15 17:44   ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-16  3:17     ` Jason Wang
2012-05-02  3:42 ` [V2 PATCH 5/9] macvtap: zerocopy: validate vectors before building skb Jason Wang
2012-05-02  3:42 ` [V2 PATCH 6/9] vhost_net: zerocopy: fix possible NULL pointer dereference of vq->bufs Jason Wang
2012-05-02  3:42 ` [V2 PATCH 7/9] vhost_net: re-poll only on EAGAIN or ENOBUFS Jason Wang
2012-05-02  3:42 ` [V2 PATCH 8/9] vhost_net: zerocopy: adding and signalling immediately when fully copied Jason Wang
2012-05-02  3:42 ` [V2 PATCH 9/9] vhost: zerocopy: poll vq in zerocopy callback Jason Wang
2012-05-15 16:50   ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-16  2:58     ` Jason Wang
2012-05-16 15:10       ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-16 15:14         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-16 17:32           ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-16 18:36             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-16 19:08               ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-21  5:22                 ` Jason Wang
2012-05-17  2:50             ` Jason Wang
2012-05-17 15:34               ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-18  9:58                 ` Jason Wang
2012-05-18 15:29                   ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-21  6:05                     ` Jason Wang
2012-05-21 15:42                       ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-21 16:12                         ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-22 10:13                           ` Jason Wang [this message]
2012-05-22 10:05                         ` Jason Wang
2012-05-22 15:55                           ` Shirley Ma
2012-05-23 10:31                             ` Jason Wang
2012-05-02  5:50 ` [V2 PATCH 0/9] vhost/macvtap zeropcopy fixes Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-02  6:44   ` David Miller
2012-05-02  8:11     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-02 19:40       ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-05-02 21:31         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-02 21:54           ` Eric W. Biederman

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