tree 5f7994cf14c33cc97bd3447ed09d2ae911e26d74
parent 16e3d9648add0b3839587fd77f510537baf88c3a
author Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> 1365627048 +0000
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1365711382 -0400

vhost_net: remove tx polling state

After commit 2b8b328b61c799957a456a5a8dab8cc7dea68575 (vhost_net: handle polling
errors when setting backend), we in fact track the polling state through
poll->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 <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>