From: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com>
Amortize the cost of virtual interrupts by doing both rx and tx work
on reception of a receive interrupt if tx napi is enabled. With
VIRTIO_F_EVENT_IDX, this suppresses most explicit tx completion
interrupts for bidirectional workloads.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com>
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 81a98de864e6..b14c82ce0032 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1072,12 +1072,33 @@ static void free_old_xmit_skbs(struct send_queue *sq)
u64_stats_update_end(&stats->tx_syncp);
}
+static void virtnet_poll_cleantx(struct receive_queue *rq)
+{
+ struct virtnet_info *vi = rq->vq->vdev->priv;
+ unsigned int index = vq2rxq(rq->vq);
+ struct send_queue *sq = &vi->sq[index];
+ struct netdev_queue *txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(vi->dev, index);
+
+ if (!sq->napi.weight)
+ return;
+
+ if (__netif_tx_trylock(txq)) {
+ free_old_xmit_skbs(sq);
+ __netif_tx_unlock(txq);
+ }
+
+ if (sq->vq->num_free >= 2 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
+ netif_tx_wake_queue(txq);
+}
+
static int virtnet_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
{
struct receive_queue *rq =
container_of(napi, struct receive_queue, napi);
unsigned int received;
+ virtnet_poll_cleantx(rq);
+
received = virtnet_receive(rq, budget);
/* Out of packets? */
--
2.12.2.816.g2cccc81164-goog
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