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
next prev parent 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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