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authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>2020-05-29 11:02:58 +0300
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2020-06-04 22:36:51 +0300
commit01fcb1cbc88effb3493c6197efc96b69b9f4823a (patch)
tree0334230859b145fbf8f10fe56ff06d3e5b17713f /drivers/vhost/vhost.c
parent5c1bd89b45d4c82316833a8d7ed36720ab89ee3d (diff)
downloadlinux-01fcb1cbc88effb3493c6197efc96b69b9f4823a.tar.xz
vhost: allow device that does not depend on vhost worker
vDPA device currently relays the eventfd via vhost worker. This is inefficient due the latency of wakeup and scheduling, so this patch tries to introduce a use_worker attribute for the vhost device. When use_worker is not set with vhost_dev_init(), vhost won't try to allocate a worker thread and the vhost_poll will be processed directly in the wakeup function. This help for vDPA since it reduces the latency caused by vhost worker. In my testing, it saves 0.2 ms in pings between VMs on a mutual host. Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan <lingshan.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200529080303.15449-2-jasowang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/vhost/vhost.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/vhost/vhost.c38
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 96d9871fa0cb..80da9d9662f2 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -166,11 +166,16 @@ static int vhost_poll_wakeup(wait_queue_entry_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync,
void *key)
{
struct vhost_poll *poll = container_of(wait, struct vhost_poll, wait);
+ struct vhost_work *work = &poll->work;
if (!(key_to_poll(key) & poll->mask))
return 0;
- vhost_poll_queue(poll);
+ if (!poll->dev->use_worker)
+ work->fn(work);
+ else
+ vhost_poll_queue(poll);
+
return 0;
}
@@ -454,6 +459,7 @@ static size_t vhost_get_desc_size(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
void vhost_dev_init(struct vhost_dev *dev,
struct vhost_virtqueue **vqs, int nvqs,
int iov_limit, int weight, int byte_weight,
+ bool use_worker,
int (*msg_handler)(struct vhost_dev *dev,
struct vhost_iotlb_msg *msg))
{
@@ -471,6 +477,7 @@ void vhost_dev_init(struct vhost_dev *dev,
dev->iov_limit = iov_limit;
dev->weight = weight;
dev->byte_weight = byte_weight;
+ dev->use_worker = use_worker;
dev->msg_handler = msg_handler;
init_llist_head(&dev->work_list);
init_waitqueue_head(&dev->wait);
@@ -549,18 +556,21 @@ long vhost_dev_set_owner(struct vhost_dev *dev)
/* No owner, become one */
dev->mm = get_task_mm(current);
dev->kcov_handle = kcov_common_handle();
- worker = kthread_create(vhost_worker, dev, "vhost-%d", current->pid);
- if (IS_ERR(worker)) {
- err = PTR_ERR(worker);
- goto err_worker;
- }
+ if (dev->use_worker) {
+ worker = kthread_create(vhost_worker, dev,
+ "vhost-%d", current->pid);
+ if (IS_ERR(worker)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(worker);
+ goto err_worker;
+ }
- dev->worker = worker;
- wake_up_process(worker); /* avoid contributing to loadavg */
+ dev->worker = worker;
+ wake_up_process(worker); /* avoid contributing to loadavg */
- err = vhost_attach_cgroups(dev);
- if (err)
- goto err_cgroup;
+ err = vhost_attach_cgroups(dev);
+ if (err)
+ goto err_cgroup;
+ }
err = vhost_dev_alloc_iovecs(dev);
if (err)
@@ -568,8 +578,10 @@ long vhost_dev_set_owner(struct vhost_dev *dev)
return 0;
err_cgroup:
- kthread_stop(worker);
- dev->worker = NULL;
+ if (dev->worker) {
+ kthread_stop(dev->worker);
+ dev->worker = NULL;
+ }
err_worker:
if (dev->mm)
mmput(dev->mm);