vhost_net: use vhost_add_used_and_signal_n() in vhost_zerocopy_signal_used()
authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Mon, 2 Sep 2013 08:40:57 +0000 (16:40 +0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 4 Sep 2013 02:46:57 +0000 (22:46 -0400)
commitc92112aed3f0b14fdd2dbd9f192cce1af22c0e1c
treeee7b35d59a5ab61b295e33087862b381481ed292
parent094afe7d556428a2ce2df0f6a4b333f7ba4d74d5
vhost_net: use vhost_add_used_and_signal_n() in vhost_zerocopy_signal_used()

We tend to batch the used adding and signaling in vhost_zerocopy_callback()
which may result more than 100 used buffers to be updated in
vhost_zerocopy_signal_used() in some cases. So switch to use
vhost_add_used_and_signal_n() to avoid multiple calls to
vhost_add_used_and_signal(). Which means much less times of used index
updating and memory barriers.

2% performance improvement were seen on netperf TCP_RR test.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/vhost/net.c