Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vhost: lockless enqueuing

From: Jason Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:05:20 +0800

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 <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  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.

Thanks