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vhost: cache avail index in vhost_enable_notify()
authorStefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Fri, 21 Jan 2022 15:31:08 +0000 (16:31 +0100)
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:52:57 +0000 (16:52 -0400)
commitd3bb267bbdcba199568f1325743d9d501dea0560
tree04ecd18c6d5da64205697ddcc760a0e7f22e19d1
parent6f4abbaa1bd3c87f3190a6c5c07ee5e55d7ea322
vhost: cache avail index in vhost_enable_notify()

In vhost_enable_notify() we enable the notifications and we read
the avail index to check if new buffers have become available in
the meantime.

We are not caching the avail index, so when the device will call
vhost_get_vq_desc(), it will find the old value in the cache and
it will read the avail index again.

It would be better to refresh the cache every time we read avail
index, so let's change vhost_enable_notify() caching the value in
`avail_idx` and compare it with `last_avail_idx` to check if there
are new buffers available.

We don't expect a significant performance boost because
the above path is not very common, indeed vhost_enable_notify()
is often called with unlikely(), expecting that avail index has
not been updated.

We ran virtio-test/vhost-test and noticed minimal improvement as
expected. To stress the patch more, we modified vhost_test.ko to
call vhost_enable_notify()/vhost_disable_notify() on every cycle
when calling vhost_get_vq_desc(); in this case we observed a more
evident improvement, with a reduction of the test execution time
of about 3.7%.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220121153108.187291-1-sgarzare@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
drivers/vhost/vhost.c