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Subject[PATCH net-next 0/6] vhost: accelerate metadata access
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Hi:

This series tries to access virtqueue metadata through kernel virtual
address instead of copy_user() friends since they had too much
overheads like checks, spec barriers or even hardware feature
toggling like SMAP. This is done through setup kernel address through
direct mapping and co-opreate VM management with MMU notifiers.

Test shows about 23% improvement on TX PPS. TCP_STREAM doesn't see
obvious improvement.

Thanks

Changes from RFC V3:
- rebase to net-next
- Tweak on the comments
Changes from RFC V2:
- switch to use direct mapping instead of vmap()
- switch to use spinlock + RCU to synchronize MMU notifier and vhost
data/control path
- set dirty pages in the invalidation callbacks
- always use copy_to/from_users() friends for the archs that may need
flush_dcache_pages()
- various minor fixes
Changes from V4:
- use invalidate_range() instead of invalidate_range_start()
- track dirty pages
Changes from V3:
- don't try to use vmap for file backed pages
- rebase to master
Changes from V2:
- fix buggy range overlapping check
- tear down MMU notifier during vhost ioctl to make sure
invalidation request can read metadata userspace address and vq size
without holding vq mutex.
Changes from V1:
- instead of pinning pages, use MMU notifier to invalidate vmaps
and remap duing metadata prefetch
- fix build warning on MIPS

Jason Wang (6):
vhost: generalize adding used elem
vhost: fine grain userspace memory accessors
vhost: rename vq_iotlb_prefetch() to vq_meta_prefetch()
vhost: introduce helpers to get the size of metadata area
vhost: factor out setting vring addr and num
vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address

drivers/vhost/net.c | 4 +-
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 850 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 38 +-
3 files changed, 766 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-)

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