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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/vhost/vhost.c, branch v3.10.78</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>vhost: check owner before we overwrite ubuf_info</title>
<updated>2013-06-11T09:46:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2013-06-06T12:20:39+00:00</published>
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If device has an owner, we shouldn't touch ubuf_info
since it might be in use.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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If device has an owner, we shouldn't touch ubuf_info
since it might be in use.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vhost: drop virtio_net.h dependency</title>
<updated>2013-05-06T11:04:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-06T10:29:36+00:00</published>
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There's no net specific code in vhost.c anymore,
don't include the virtio_net.h header.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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There's no net specific code in vhost.c anymore,
don't include the virtio_net.h header.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vhost: Export vhost_dev_set_owner</title>
<updated>2013-05-06T09:57:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Asias He</name>
<email>asias@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-06T03:15:59+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Asias He &lt;asias@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Asias He &lt;asias@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vhost: fix error handling in RESET_OWNER ioctl</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T07:02:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-28T14:12:08+00:00</published>
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RESET_OWNER ioctl would leave the fd in a bad state if
memory allocation failed: device is stopped
but owner is not reset. Make state changes
after allocating memory, such that a failed
ioctl has no effect.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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RESET_OWNER ioctl would leave the fd in a bad state if
memory allocation failed: device is stopped
but owner is not reset. Make state changes
after allocating memory, such that a failed
ioctl has no effect.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vhost: move per-vq net specific fields out to net</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T07:02:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-28T12:51:40+00:00</published>
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This will remove the need for vhost scsi to pull
in virtio-net.h.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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This will remove the need for vhost scsi to pull
in virtio-net.h.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vhost: move vhost-net zerocopy fields to net.c</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T07:02:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Asias He</name>
<email>asias@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-27T07:07:46+00:00</published>
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On top of 'vhost: Allow device specific fields per vq', we can move device
specific fields to device virt queue from vhost virt queue.

Signed-off-by: Asias He &lt;asias@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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On top of 'vhost: Allow device specific fields per vq', we can move device
specific fields to device virt queue from vhost virt queue.

Signed-off-by: Asias He &lt;asias@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vhost: Allow device specific fields per vq</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T07:02:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Asias He</name>
<email>asias@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-27T03:16:48+00:00</published>
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This is useful for any device who wants device specific fields per vq.
For example, tcm_vhost wants a per vq field to track requests which are
in flight on the vq. Also, on top of this we can add patches to move
things like ubufs from vhost.h out to net.c.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Asias He &lt;asias@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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This is useful for any device who wants device specific fields per vq.
For example, tcm_vhost wants a per vq field to track requests which are
in flight on the vq. Also, on top of this we can add patches to move
things like ubufs from vhost.h out to net.c.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Asias He &lt;asias@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vhost_net: remove tx polling state</title>
<updated>2013-04-11T20:16:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-10T20:50:48+00:00</published>
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After commit 2b8b328b61c799957a456a5a8dab8cc7dea68575 (vhost_net: handle polling
errors when setting backend), we in fact track the polling state through
poll-&gt;wqh, so there's no need to duplicate the work with an extra
vhost_net_polling_state. So this patch removes this and make the code simpler.

This patch also removes the all tx starting/stopping code in tx path according
to Michael's suggestion.

Netperf test shows almost the same result in stream test, but gets improvements
on TCP_RR tests (both zerocopy or copy) especially on low load cases.

Tested between multiqueue kvm guest and external host with two direct
connected 82599s.

zerocopy disabled:

sessions|transaction rates|normalize|
before/after/+improvements
1 | 9510.24/11727.29/+23.3%    | 693.54/887.68/+28.0%   |
25| 192931.50/241729.87/+25.3% | 2376.80/2771.70/+16.6% |
50| 277634.64/291905.76/+5%    | 3118.36/3230.11/+3.6%  |

zerocopy enabled:

sessions|transaction rates|normalize|
before/after/+improvements
1 | 7318.33/11929.76/+63.0%    | 521.86/843.30/+61.6%   |
25| 167264.88/242422.15/+44.9% | 2181.60/2788.16/+27.8% |
50| 272181.02/294347.04/+8.1%  | 3071.56/3257.85/+6.1%  |

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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After commit 2b8b328b61c799957a456a5a8dab8cc7dea68575 (vhost_net: handle polling
errors when setting backend), we in fact track the polling state through
poll-&gt;wqh, so there's no need to duplicate the work with an extra
vhost_net_polling_state. So this patch removes this and make the code simpler.

This patch also removes the all tx starting/stopping code in tx path according
to Michael's suggestion.

Netperf test shows almost the same result in stream test, but gets improvements
on TCP_RR tests (both zerocopy or copy) especially on low load cases.

Tested between multiqueue kvm guest and external host with two direct
connected 82599s.

zerocopy disabled:

sessions|transaction rates|normalize|
before/after/+improvements
1 | 9510.24/11727.29/+23.3%    | 693.54/887.68/+28.0%   |
25| 192931.50/241729.87/+25.3% | 2376.80/2771.70/+16.6% |
50| 277634.64/291905.76/+5%    | 3118.36/3230.11/+3.6%  |

zerocopy enabled:

sessions|transaction rates|normalize|
before/after/+improvements
1 | 7318.33/11929.76/+63.0%    | 521.86/843.30/+61.6%   |
25| 167264.88/242422.15/+44.9% | 2181.60/2788.16/+27.8% |
50| 272181.02/294347.04/+8.1%  | 3071.56/3257.85/+6.1%  |

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vhost_net: handle polling errors when setting backend</title>
<updated>2013-01-29T20:43:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-28T01:05:18+00:00</published>
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Currently, the polling errors were ignored, which can lead following issues:

- vhost remove itself unconditionally from waitqueue when stopping the poll,
  this may crash the kernel since the previous attempt of starting may fail to
  add itself to the waitqueue
- userspace may think the backend were successfully set even when the polling
  failed.

Solve this by:

- check poll-&gt;wqh before trying to remove from waitqueue
- report polling errors in vhost_poll_start(), tx_poll_start(), the return value
  will be checked and returned when userspace want to set the backend

After this fix, there still could be a polling failure after backend is set, it
will addressed by the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Currently, the polling errors were ignored, which can lead following issues:

- vhost remove itself unconditionally from waitqueue when stopping the poll,
  this may crash the kernel since the previous attempt of starting may fail to
  add itself to the waitqueue
- userspace may think the backend were successfully set even when the polling
  failed.

Solve this by:

- check poll-&gt;wqh before trying to remove from waitqueue
- report polling errors in vhost_poll_start(), tx_poll_start(), the return value
  will be checked and returned when userspace want to set the backend

After this fix, there still could be a polling failure after backend is set, it
will addressed by the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vhost: avoid backend flush on vring ops</title>
<updated>2012-12-06T15:09:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-06T12:03:34+00:00</published>
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vring changes already do a flush internally where appropriate, so we do
not need a second flush.

It's currently not very expensive but a follow-up patch makes flush more
heavy-weight, so remove the extra flush here to avoid regressing
performance if call or kick fds are changed on data path.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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vring changes already do a flush internally where appropriate, so we do
not need a second flush.

It's currently not very expensive but a follow-up patch makes flush more
heavy-weight, so remove the extra flush here to avoid regressing
performance if call or kick fds are changed on data path.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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