[RFC PATCH V2 1/3] vhost: generalize adding used elem

Jason Wang
2018-12-28T07:55:35Z

Use one generic vhost_copy_to_user() instead of two dedicated
accessor. This will simplify the conversion to fine grain
accessors. About 2% improvement of PPS were seen during vitio-user
txonly test.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 11 +----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 55e5aa662ad5..f179b5ee14c4 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -2174,16 +2174,7 @@ static int __vhost_add_used_n(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,

start = vq->last_used_idx & (vq->num - 1);
used = vq->used->ring + start;
- if (count == 1) {
- if (vhost_put_user(vq, heads[0].id, &used->id)) {
- vq_err(vq, "Failed to write used id");
- return -EFAULT;
- }
- if (vhost_put_user(vq, heads[0].len, &used->len)) {
- vq_err(vq, "Failed to write used len");
- return -EFAULT;
- }
- } else if (vhost_copy_to_user(vq, used, heads, count * sizeof *used)) {
+ if (vhost_copy_to_user(vq, used, heads, count * sizeof *used)) {
vq_err(vq, "Failed to write used");
return -EFAULT;
}
--
2.17.1