From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/8] vhost_net: try batch dequing from skb array
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 00:47:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170330004654-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cea3d380-389e-d258-915a-3d4f60232535@redhat.com>
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 06:53:27PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>
>
> On 2017年03月29日 18:46, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
> > Hi Jason,
> >
> > > On 2017年03月23日 13:34, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > +{
> > > > > > + if (rvq->rh != rvq->rt)
> > > > > > + goto out;
> > > > > > +
> > > > > > + rvq->rh = rvq->rt = 0;
> > > > > > + rvq->rt = skb_array_consume_batched_bh(rvq->rx_array, rvq->rxq,
> > > > > > + VHOST_RX_BATCH);
> > > > > A comment explaining why is is -bh would be helpful.
> > > > Ok.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > Rethink about this. It looks like -bh is not needed in this case since
> > > no consumer run in bh.
> > In that case do we need other variants of "ptr_ring_consume_batched_*()" functions.
> > Are we planning to use them in future?
>
> I think we'd better keep them, since it serves as helpers. You can see that
> not all the helpers in ptr_ring has real users, but they were prepared for
> the future use.
>
> Thanks
Makes sense for basic building blocks but I'm not sure we
need to do it for all APIs.
> >
> > > Thanks
> > >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-29 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-21 4:04 [PATCH net-next 0/8] vhost-net rx batching Jason Wang
2017-03-21 4:04 ` [PATCH net-next 1/8] ptr_ring: introduce batch dequeuing Jason Wang
2017-03-21 10:25 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2017-03-22 3:16 ` Jason Wang
2017-03-22 13:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-23 5:33 ` Jason Wang
2017-03-21 4:04 ` [PATCH net-next 2/8] skb_array: " Jason Wang
2017-03-21 4:04 ` [PATCH net-next 3/8] tun: export skb_array Jason Wang
2017-03-21 4:04 ` [PATCH net-next 4/8] tap: " Jason Wang
2017-03-21 4:04 ` [PATCH net-next 5/8] tun: support receiving skb through msg_control Jason Wang
2017-03-21 4:04 ` [PATCH net-next 6/8] tap: support receiving skb from msg_control Jason Wang
2017-03-21 4:04 ` [PATCH net-next 7/8] vhost_net: try batch dequing from skb array Jason Wang
2017-03-22 14:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-23 5:34 ` Jason Wang
2017-03-29 9:58 ` Jason Wang
2017-03-29 10:46 ` Pankaj Gupta
2017-03-29 10:53 ` Jason Wang
2017-03-29 21:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2017-03-21 4:04 ` [PATCH net-next 8/8] vhost_net: use lockless peeking for skb array during busy polling Jason Wang
2017-03-29 12:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-30 2:16 ` Jason Wang
2017-03-30 2:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-30 3:53 ` Jason Wang
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