Updating the event index has a memory barrier and causes more work
on the other side to actually signal the event. It is unnecessary
if a new buffer has already appeared on the ring, so poll once before
doing the update.
The effect of this on the 0.9 ring implementation is pretty much
invisible, but on the new-style ring it provides a consistent 3%
performance improvement.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Provide new primitives used_empty/avail_empty and
build poll_avail/poll_used on top of it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
By using -flto and -fwhole-program, all functions from the ring implementation
can be treated as static and possibly inlined. Force this to happen through
the GCC flatten attribute.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Recent changes to ptr_ring broke the ringtest
which lacks a likely() stub. Fix it up.
Fixes: 982fb490c2
("ptr_ring: support zero length ring")
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Sometimes, we need support resizing multiple queues at once. This is
because it was not easy to recover to recover from a partial failure
of multiple queues resizing.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Several cases of overlapping changes, except the packet scheduler
conflicts which deal with the addition of the free list parameter
to qdisc_enqueue().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/dev/cpu is only available on x86 with certain modules (e.g. msr) enabled.
Using lscpu to get processors count is more portable.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Having typical usage example in the README file is more convinient than in
the git history...
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
virtio_ring currently sends the device (usually a hypervisor)
physical addresses of its I/O buffers. This is okay when DMA
addresses and physical addresses are the same thing, but this isn't
always the case. For example, this never works on Xen guests, and
it is likely to fail if a physical "virtio" device ever ends up
behind an IOMMU or swiotlb.
The immediate use case for me is to enable virtio on Xen guests.
For that to work, we need vring to support DMA address translation
as well as a corresponding change to virtio_pci or to another
driver.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
This adds micro-benchmarks useful for tuning virtio ring layouts.
Three layouts are currently implemented:
- virtio 0.9 compatible one
- an experimental extension bypassing the ring index, polling ring
itself instead
- an experimental extension bypassing avail and used ring completely
Typical use:
sh run-on-all.sh perf stat -r 10 --log-fd 1 -- ./ring
It doesn't depend on the kernel directly, but it's handy
to have as much virtio stuff as possible in one tree.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
commit cf561f0d2e ("virtio: introduce
virtio_is_little_endian() helper") changed byteswap logic to
skip feature bit checks for LE platforms, but didn't
update tools/virtio, so vring_bench started failing.
Update the copy under tools/virtio/ (TODO: find a way to avoid this code
duplication).
Cc: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
