From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA8EB1B5C2 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:30:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C7DA80E7B; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:30:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ovpn-112-26.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.112.26]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA6A17CDA; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:29:55 +0000 (UTC) From: Maxime Coquelin To: dev@dpdk.org, i.maximets@samsung.com, tiwei.bie@intel.com, zhihong.wang@intel.com, jfreiman@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com Cc: Maxime Coquelin Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:29:52 +0100 Message-Id: <20181219092952.25728-1-maxime.coquelin@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.14 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.25]); Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:30:03 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] vhost: batch used descs chains write-back with packed ring X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:30:04 -0000 Instead of writing back descriptors chains in order, let's write the first chain flags last in order to improve batching. With Kernel's pktgen benchmark, ~3% performance gain is measured. Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin --- V2: Revert back to initial implementation to have a write barrier before every descs flags store, but still store first desc flags last. (Missing barrier reported by Ilya) lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c index 8c657a101..de436af79 100644 --- a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c @@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ flush_shadow_used_ring_packed(struct virtio_net *dev, { int i; uint16_t used_idx = vq->last_used_idx; + uint16_t head_idx = vq->last_used_idx; + uint16_t head_flags = 0; /* Split loop in two to save memory barriers */ for (i = 0; i < vq->shadow_used_idx; i++) { @@ -126,12 +128,17 @@ flush_shadow_used_ring_packed(struct virtio_net *dev, flags &= ~VRING_DESC_F_AVAIL; } - vq->desc_packed[vq->last_used_idx].flags = flags; + if (i > 0) { + vq->desc_packed[vq->last_used_idx].flags = flags; - vhost_log_cache_used_vring(dev, vq, + vhost_log_cache_used_vring(dev, vq, vq->last_used_idx * sizeof(struct vring_packed_desc), sizeof(struct vring_packed_desc)); + } else { + head_idx = vq->last_used_idx; + head_flags = flags; + } vq->last_used_idx += vq->shadow_used_packed[i].count; if (vq->last_used_idx >= vq->size) { @@ -140,7 +147,13 @@ flush_shadow_used_ring_packed(struct virtio_net *dev, } } - rte_smp_wmb(); + vq->desc_packed[head_idx].flags = head_flags; + + vhost_log_cache_used_vring(dev, vq, + vq->last_used_idx * + sizeof(struct vring_packed_desc), + sizeof(struct vring_packed_desc)); + vq->shadow_used_idx = 0; vhost_log_cache_sync(dev, vq); } -- 2.17.2