[PATCH 4/4] virtio: introduce avail cache

Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-10T07:24:07Z

This allows skipping avail ring writes when they
don't need to change. Good for cache locality.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 096b857..14e7ce9 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ struct vring_virtqueue {
bool last_add_time_valid;
ktime_t last_add_time;
#endif
+ u16 *avail;

/* Tokens for callbacks. */
void *data[];
@@ -236,7 +237,10 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add(struct virtqueue *_vq,
/* Put entry in available array (but don't update avail->idx until they
* do sync). */
avail = virtio16_to_cpu(_vq->vdev, vq->vring.avail->idx) & (vq->vring.num - 1);
- vq->vring.avail->ring[avail] = cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, head);
+ if (vq->avail[avail] != head) {
+ vq->avail[avail] = head;
+ vq->vring.avail->ring[avail] = cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, head);
+ }

/* Descriptors and available array need to be set before we expose the
* new available array entries. */
@@ -724,6 +728,11 @@ struct virtqueue *vring_new_virtqueue(unsigned int index,
vq = kmalloc(sizeof(*vq) + sizeof(void *)*num, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vq)
return NULL;
+ vq->avail = kzalloc(sizeof (*vq->avail) * num, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!vq->avail) {
+ kfree(vq);
+ return NULL;
+ }

vring_init(&vq->vring, num, pages, vring_align);
vq->vq.callback = callback;
--
MST