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authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>2012-05-02 03:42:32 (GMT)
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2012-05-02 15:22:24 (GMT)
commitdbf34207c62bdec16b49721d119647c470a3443c (patch)
tree156779e1562f655cee6f383474d44e8960a818de /drivers/vhost/net.c
parentc460f0573941cb28dc7f35595679c3508f0ce41f (diff)
downloadlinux-dbf34207c62bdec16b49721d119647c470a3443c.tar.xz
vhost_net: re-poll only on EAGAIN or ENOBUFS
Currently, we restart tx polling unconditionally when sendmsg() fails. This would cause unnecessary wakeups of vhost wokers and waste cpu utlization when evil userspace(guest driver) is able to hit EFAULT or EINVAL. The polling is only needed when the socket send buffer were exceeded or not enough memory. So fix this by restarting polling only when sendmsg() returns EAGAIN/ENOBUFS. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/vhost/net.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/vhost/net.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 35abe90..f54b1d5 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -257,7 +257,8 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
UIO_MAXIOV;
}
vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, 1);
- tx_poll_start(net, sock);
+ if (err == -EAGAIN || err == -ENOBUFS)
+ tx_poll_start(net, sock);
break;
}
if (err != len)