From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Wang Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] vhost_net: don't poll on -EFAULT Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:27:01 +0800 Message-ID: <4F8CE305.9090100@redhat.com> References: <20120416060749.14140.19433.stgit@intel-e5620-16-2.englab.nay.redhat.com> <20120416060833.14140.28139.stgit@intel-e5620-16-2.englab.nay.redhat.com> <20120416071646.GB25396@redhat.com> <4F8BD81A.7010507@redhat.com> <20120416133859.GB13190@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, xma@us.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120416133859.GB13190@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 04/16/2012 09:39 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 04:28:10PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >> > On 04/16/2012 03:16 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>> > >On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 02:08:33PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >>>> > >>Currently, we restart tx polling unconditionally when sendmsg() >>>> > >>fails. This would cause unnecessary wakeups of vhost wokers as it's >>>> > >>only needed when the socket send buffer were exceeded. >>> > >Why is this a problem? >> > >> > This issue is when guest driver is able to hit the -EFAULT, vhost >> > discard the the descriptor and restart the polling. This would wake >> > vhost thread and repeat the loop again which waste cpu. > Does same thing happen if we get an error from copy from user? > Right, so do you think it makes sense that we only restart polling on -EAGAIN or -ENOBUFS?