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virtio-scsi: dataplane: suppress guest notification

Message ID 1415762675-11237-1-git-send-email-ming.lei@canonical.com
State New
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Ming Lei Nov. 12, 2014, 3:24 a.m. UTC
This patch uses vring_should_notify() to suppress
guest notification, and looks notification frequency
can be decreased from ~33K/sec to ~2K/sec in my test
environment.

Suggested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
---
 hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Paolo Bonzini Nov. 12, 2014, 10:19 a.m. UTC | #1
On 12/11/2014 04:24, Ming Lei wrote:
> This patch uses vring_should_notify() to suppress
> guest notification, and looks notification frequency
> can be decreased from ~33K/sec to ~2K/sec in my test
> environment.
> 
> Suggested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
> ---
>  hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c |    7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c
> index df17229..be3b042 100644
> --- a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c
> +++ b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c
> @@ -93,9 +93,14 @@ VirtIOSCSIReq *virtio_scsi_pop_req_vring(VirtIOSCSI *s,
>  
>  void virtio_scsi_vring_push_notify(VirtIOSCSIReq *req)
>  {
> +    VirtIODevice *vdev = VIRTIO_DEVICE(req->vring->parent);
> +
>      vring_push(&req->vring->vring, &req->elem,
>                 req->qsgl.size + req->resp_iov.size);
> -    event_notifier_set(&req->vring->guest_notifier);
> +
> +    if (vring_should_notify(vdev, &req->vring->vring)) {
> +        event_notifier_set(&req->vring->guest_notifier);
> +    }
>  }
>  
>  static void virtio_scsi_iothread_handle_ctrl(EventNotifier *notifier)
> 

Thanks, applied.

Paolo
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diff --git a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c
index df17229..be3b042 100644
--- a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c
+++ b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c
@@ -93,9 +93,14 @@  VirtIOSCSIReq *virtio_scsi_pop_req_vring(VirtIOSCSI *s,
 
 void virtio_scsi_vring_push_notify(VirtIOSCSIReq *req)
 {
+    VirtIODevice *vdev = VIRTIO_DEVICE(req->vring->parent);
+
     vring_push(&req->vring->vring, &req->elem,
                req->qsgl.size + req->resp_iov.size);
-    event_notifier_set(&req->vring->guest_notifier);
+
+    if (vring_should_notify(vdev, &req->vring->vring)) {
+        event_notifier_set(&req->vring->guest_notifier);
+    }
 }
 
 static void virtio_scsi_iothread_handle_ctrl(EventNotifier *notifier)