From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:58:35 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: lguest: net block unneeded receive queue update notifications
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc1~1^2~6
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5dae785a82c1a8c05b5b4f9709bd9ce658dcf1b6;p=linux-2.6

lguest: net block unneeded receive queue update notifications

Number of exits transmitting 10GB Guest->Host before:
	network xmit 7858610 recv 118136

After:
	network xmit 7750233 recv 1

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
---

diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
index 31a688e105..46f4c5b09e 100644
--- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
+++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
@@ -933,6 +933,11 @@ static bool handle_tun_input(int fd, struct device *dev)
 		/* FIXME: Actually want DRIVER_ACTIVE here. */
 		if (dev->desc->status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK)
 			warn("network: no dma buffer!");
+
+		/* Now tell it we want to know if new things appear. */
+		dev->vq->vring.used->flags &= ~VRING_USED_F_NO_NOTIFY;
+		wmb();
+
 		/* We'll turn this back on if input buffers are registered. */
 		return false;
 	} else if (out_num)
@@ -969,6 +974,13 @@ static void enable_fd(int fd, struct virtqueue *vq)
 	write(waker_fd, &vq->dev->fd, sizeof(vq->dev->fd));
 }
 
+static void net_enable_fd(int fd, struct virtqueue *vq)
+{
+	/* We don't need to know again when Guest refills receive buffer. */
+	vq->vring.used->flags |= VRING_USED_F_NO_NOTIFY;
+	enable_fd(fd, vq);
+}
+
 /* When the Guest tells us they updated the status field, we handle it. */
 static void update_device_status(struct device *dev)
 {
@@ -1426,7 +1438,7 @@ static void setup_tun_net(char *arg)
 
 	/* Network devices need a receive and a send queue, just like
 	 * console. */
-	add_virtqueue(dev, VIRTQUEUE_NUM, enable_fd);
+	add_virtqueue(dev, VIRTQUEUE_NUM, net_enable_fd);
 	add_virtqueue(dev, VIRTQUEUE_NUM, handle_net_output);
 
 	/* We need a socket to perform the magic network ioctls to bring up the