On 2017年03月03日 22:39, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
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. Together VIRTIO_F_EVENT_IDX and
vhost interrupt moderation, this suppresses most explicit tx
completion interrupts for bidirectional workloads.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com>
---
  drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 9a9031640179..21c575127d50 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1031,6 +1031,23 @@ static int virtnet_receive(struct receive_queue *rq, int 
budget)
        return received;
  }
+static unsigned int free_old_xmit_skbs(struct send_queue *sq, int budget);
+
+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);
+
+       __netif_tx_lock(txq, smp_processor_id());
+       free_old_xmit_skbs(sq, sq->napi.weight);
+       __netif_tx_unlock(txq);

Should we check tx napi weight here? Or this was treated as an independent optimization?

+
+       if (sq->vq->num_free >= 2 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
+               netif_wake_subqueue(vi->dev, vq2txq(sq->vq));
+}
+
  static int virtnet_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
  {
        struct receive_queue *rq =
@@ -1039,6 +1056,8 @@ static int virtnet_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int 
budget)
received = virtnet_receive(rq, budget); + virtnet_poll_cleantx(rq);
+

Better to do the before virtnet_receive() consider refill may allocate memory for rx buffers.

Btw, if this is proved to be more efficient. In the future we may consider to:

1) use a single interrupt for both rx and tx
2) use a single napi to handle both rx and tx

Thanks

        /* Out of packets? */
        if (received < budget)
                virtqueue_napi_complete(napi, rq->vq, received);

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