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From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: mst@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, eperezma@redhat.com
Cc: jonah.palmer@oracle.com, kuba@kernel.org, jon@nutanix.com,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH vhost 3/3] vhost-net: flush batched before enabling notifications
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:30:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250917063045.2042-3-jasowang@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250917063045.2042-1-jasowang@redhat.com>

Commit 8c2e6b26ffe2 ("vhost/net: Defer TX queue re-enable until after
sendmsg") tries to defer the notification enabling by moving the logic
out of the loop after the vhost_tx_batch() when nothing new is spotted.
This caused unexpected side effects as the new logic is reused for
several other error conditions.

A previous patch reverted 8c2e6b26ffe2. Now, bring the performance
back up by flushing batched buffers before enabling notifications.

Reported-by: Jon Kohler <jon@nutanix.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8c2e6b26ffe2 ("vhost/net: Defer TX queue re-enable until after sendmsg")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/net.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 57efd5c55f89..35ded4330431 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -780,6 +780,11 @@ static void handle_tx_copy(struct vhost_net *net, struct socket *sock)
 			break;
 		/* Nothing new?  Wait for eventfd to tell us they refilled. */
 		if (head == vq->num) {
+			/* Flush batched packets to handle pending RX
+			 * work (if busyloop_intr is set) and to avoid
+			 * unnecessary virtqueue kicks.
+			 */
+			vhost_tx_batch(net, nvq, sock, &msg);
 			if (unlikely(busyloop_intr)) {
 				vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
 			} else if (unlikely(vhost_enable_notify(&net->dev,
-- 
2.34.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-09-17  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-17  6:30 [PATCH vhost 1/3] vhost-net: unbreak busy polling Jason Wang
2025-09-17  6:30 ` [PATCH vhost 2/3] Revert "vhost/net: Defer TX queue re-enable until after sendmsg" Jason Wang
2025-09-17  8:34   ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2025-09-17  6:30 ` Jason Wang [this message]
2025-09-17  8:40   ` [PATCH vhost 3/3] vhost-net: flush batched before enabling notifications Eugenio Perez Martin
2025-09-17  8:15 ` [PATCH vhost 1/3] vhost-net: unbreak busy polling Eugenio Perez Martin
2025-09-18 14:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2025-09-19  7:25   ` Jason Wang

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