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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] vhost: lockless enqueuing

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> On 04/26/2016 02:24 PM, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
> > Hi Jason,
> >
> > Overall patches look good. Just one doubt I have is below:
> >> We use spinlock to synchronize the work list now which may cause
> >> unnecessary contentions. So this patch switch to use llist to remove
> >> this contention. Pktgen tests shows about 5% improvement:
> >>
> >> Before:
> >> ~1300000 pps
> >> After:
> >> ~1370000 pps
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 52
> >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
> >> drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 7 ++++---
> >> 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>
> [...]
>
> >> - if (work) {
> >> + node = llist_del_all(&dev->work_list);
> >> + if (!node)
> >> + schedule();
> >> +
> >> + node = llist_reverse_order(node);
> > Can we avoid llist reverse here?
> >
>
> Probably not, this is because:
>
> - we should process the work exactly the same order as they were queued,
> otherwise flush won't work
> - llist can only add a node to the head of list.

Got it.

Thanks,
>
> Thanks
>

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