virtio-net: keep tx interrupts disabled unless kick

Tx napi mode increases the rate of transmit interrupts. Suppress some
by masking interrupts while more packets are expected. The interrupts
will be reenabled before the last packet is sent.

This optimization reduces the througput drop with tx napi for
unidirectional flows such as UDP_STREAM that do not benefit from
cleaning tx completions in the the receive napi handler.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 9dd978f34c1fb00790faebbbae5b5b051dbf8a98..003143835766e81880f131bc11e7ef94db311178 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1200,6 +1200,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
        /* Free up any pending old buffers before queueing new ones. */
        free_old_xmit_skbs(sq);
 
+       if (use_napi && kick)
+               virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed(sq->vq);
+
        /* timestamp packet in software */
        skb_tx_timestamp(skb);