[PATCH V2 07/13] Drivers: hv: vmbus: vmbus_sendpacket_ctl: hvsock: avoid unnecessary signaling

K. Y. Srinivasan
2016-01-28T04:54:01Z

From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>

When the hvsock channel's outbound ringbuffer is full (i.e.,
hv_ringbuffer_write() returns -EAGAIN), we should avoid the unnecessary
signaling the host.

Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
---
drivers/hv/channel.c | 6 +++++-
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel.c b/drivers/hv/channel.c
index 1161d68..3f04533 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/channel.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/channel.c
@@ -659,6 +659,9 @@ int vmbus_sendpacket_ctl(struct vmbus_channel *channel, void *buffer,
* If we cannot write to the ring-buffer; signal the host
* even if we may not have written anything. This is a rare
* enough condition that it should not matter.
+ * NOTE: in this case, the hvsock channel is an exception, because
+ * it looks the host side's hvsock implementation has a throttling
+ * mechanism which can hurt the performance otherwise.
*/

if (channel->signal_policy)
@@ -666,7 +669,8 @@ int vmbus_sendpacket_ctl(struct vmbus_channel *channel, void *buffer,
else
kick_q = true;

- if (((ret == 0) && kick_q && signal) || (ret))
+ if (((ret == 0) && kick_q && signal) ||
+ (ret && !is_hvsock_channel(channel)))
vmbus_setevent(channel);

return ret;
--
1.7.4.1