[PATCH net-next 3/3] vhost_net: basic polling support

Jason Wang
2015-11-25T07:13:05Z

This patch tries to poll for new added tx buffer or socket receive
queue for a while at the end of tx/rx processing. The maximum time
spent on polling were specified through a new kind of vring ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
---
drivers/vhost/net.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 15 ++++++++++
drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/vhost.h | 11 +++++++
4 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 9eda69e..ce6da77 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -287,6 +287,41 @@ static void vhost_zerocopy_callback(struct ubuf_info *ubuf, bool success)
rcu_read_unlock_bh();
}

+static inline unsigned long busy_clock(void)
+{
+ return local_clock() >> 10;
+}
+
+static bool vhost_can_busy_poll(struct vhost_dev *dev,
+ unsigned long endtime)
+{
+ return likely(!need_resched()) &&
+ likely(!time_after(busy_clock(), endtime)) &&
+ likely(!signal_pending(current)) &&
+ !vhost_has_work(dev) &&
+ single_task_running();
+}
+
+static int vhost_net_tx_get_vq_desc(struct vhost_net *net,
+ struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
+ struct iovec iov[], unsigned int iov_size,
+ unsigned int *out_num, unsigned int *in_num)
+{
+ unsigned long uninitialized_var(endtime);
+
+ if (vq->busyloop_timeout) {
+ preempt_disable();
+ endtime = busy_clock() + vq->busyloop_timeout;
+ while (vhost_can_busy_poll(vq->dev, endtime) &&
+ !vhost_vq_more_avail(vq->dev, vq))
+ cpu_relax();
+ preempt_enable();
+ }
+
+ return vhost_get_vq_desc(vq, vq->iov, ARRAY_SIZE(vq->iov),
+ out_num, in_num, NULL, NULL);
+}
+
/* Expects to be always run from workqueue - which acts as
* read-size critical section for our kind of RCU. */
static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
@@ -331,10 +366,9 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
% UIO_MAXIOV == nvq->done_idx))
break;

- head = vhost_get_vq_desc(vq, vq->iov,
- ARRAY_SIZE(vq->iov),
- &out, &in,
- NULL, NULL);
+ head = vhost_net_tx_get_vq_desc(net, vq, vq->iov,
+ ARRAY_SIZE(vq->iov),
+ &out, &in);
/* On error, stop handling until the next kick. */
if (unlikely(head < 0))
break;
@@ -435,6 +469,34 @@ static int peek_head_len(struct sock *sk)
return len;
}

+static int vhost_net_peek_head_len(struct vhost_net *net, struct sock *sk)
+{
+ struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq = &net->vqs[VHOST_NET_VQ_TX];
+ struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = &nvq->vq;
+ unsigned long uninitialized_var(endtime);
+
+ if (vq->busyloop_timeout) {
+ mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
+ vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
+
+ preempt_disable();
+ endtime = busy_clock() + vq->busyloop_timeout;
+
+ while (vhost_can_busy_poll(&net->dev, endtime) &&
+ skb_queue_empty(&sk->sk_receive_queue) &&
+ !vhost_vq_more_avail(&net->dev, vq))
+ cpu_relax();
+
+ preempt_enable();
+
+ if (vhost_enable_notify(&net->dev, vq))
+ vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
+ mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
+ }
+
+ return peek_head_len(sk);
+}
+
/* This is a multi-buffer version of vhost_get_desc, that works if
* vq has read descriptors only.
* @vq - the relevant virtqueue
@@ -553,7 +615,7 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
vq->log : NULL;
mergeable = vhost_has_feature(vq, VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF);

- while ((sock_len = peek_head_len(sock->sk))) {
+ while ((sock_len = vhost_net_peek_head_len(net, sock->sk))) {
sock_len += sock_hlen;
vhost_len = sock_len + vhost_hlen;
headcount = get_rx_bufs(vq, vq->heads, vhost_len,
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index b86c5aa..857af6c 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ static void vhost_vq_reset(struct vhost_dev *dev,
vq->memory = NULL;
vq->is_le = virtio_legacy_is_little_endian();
vhost_vq_reset_user_be(vq);
+ vq->busyloop_timeout = 0;
}

static int vhost_worker(void *data)
@@ -747,6 +748,7 @@ long vhost_vring_ioctl(struct vhost_dev *d, int ioctl, void __user *argp)
struct vhost_vring_state s;
struct vhost_vring_file f;
struct vhost_vring_addr a;
+ struct vhost_vring_busyloop_timeout t;
u32 idx;
long r;

@@ -919,6 +921,19 @@ long vhost_vring_ioctl(struct vhost_dev *d, int ioctl, void __user *argp)
case VHOST_GET_VRING_ENDIAN:
r = vhost_get_vring_endian(vq, idx, argp);
break;
+ case VHOST_SET_VRING_BUSYLOOP_TIMEOUT:
+ if (copy_from_user(&t, argp, sizeof(t))) {
+ r = -EFAULT;
+ break;
+ }
+ vq->busyloop_timeout = t.timeout;
+ break;
+ case VHOST_GET_VRING_BUSYLOOP_TIMEOUT:
+ t.index = idx;
+ t.timeout = vq->busyloop_timeout;
+ if (copy_to_user(argp, &t, sizeof(t)))
+ r = -EFAULT;
+ break;
default:
r = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
}
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
index 2f3c57c..4b7d4fa 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ struct vhost_virtqueue {
/* Ring endianness requested by userspace for cross-endian support. */
bool user_be;
#endif
+ u32 busyloop_timeout;
};

struct vhost_dev {
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h b/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h
index ab373191..eaf6c33 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ struct vhost_vring_file {

};

+struct vhost_vring_busyloop_timeout {
+ unsigned int index;
+ unsigned int timeout;
+};
+
struct vhost_vring_addr {
unsigned int index;
/* Option flags. */
@@ -126,6 +131,12 @@ struct vhost_memory {
#define VHOST_SET_VRING_CALL _IOW(VHOST_VIRTIO, 0x21, struct vhost_vring_file)
/* Set eventfd to signal an error */
#define VHOST_SET_VRING_ERR _IOW(VHOST_VIRTIO, 0x22, struct vhost_vring_file)
+/* Set busy loop timeout */
+#define VHOST_SET_VRING_BUSYLOOP_TIMEOUT _IOW(VHOST_VIRTIO, 0x23, \
+ struct vhost_vring_busyloop_timeout)
+/* Get busy loop timeout */
+#define VHOST_GET_VRING_BUSYLOOP_TIMEOUT _IOW(VHOST_VIRTIO, 0x24, \
+ struct vhost_vring_busyloop_timeout)

/* VHOST_NET specific defines */

--
2.5.0