Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC 0/5] batched tx processing in vhost_net

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 22:26:40 +0300

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 04:02:30PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> This series tries to implement basic tx batched processing. This is
> done by prefetching descriptor indices and update used ring in a
> batch. This intends to speed up used ring updating and improve the
> cache utilization. Test shows about ~22% improvement in tx pss.

> Please review.
> 
> Jason Wang (5):
>   vhost: split out ring head fetching logic
>   vhost: introduce helper to prefetch desc index
>   vhost: introduce vhost_add_used_idx()

Please squash these new APIs into where they are used.
This split-up just makes review harder for me as
I can't figure out how the new APIs are used.

>   vhost_net: rename VHOST_RX_BATCH to VHOST_NET_BATCH

This is ok as a separate patch.

>   vhost_net: basic tx virtqueue batched processing
> 
>  drivers/vhost/net.c   | 221 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 165 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.h |   9 ++
>  3 files changed, 270 insertions(+), 125 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.7.4