virtio_ring: virtqueue_add_sgs, to add multiple sgs.
authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:07:09 +0000 (15:37 +1030)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:13:29 +0000 (15:43 +1030)
commit13816c768d46586e925b22736992258d6105ad2c
treefffb6c71e49b040f532885e6311c5d4886c5d219
parentc8164d8931fdee9ac5314708c4071adf1d997425
virtio_ring: virtqueue_add_sgs, to add multiple sgs.

virtio_scsi can really use this, to avoid the current hack of copying
the whole sg array.  Some other things get slightly neater, too.

This causes a slowdown in virtqueue_add_buf(), which is implemented as
a wrapper.  This is addressed in the next patches.

for i in `seq 50`; do /usr/bin/time -f 'Wall time:%e' ./vringh_test --indirect --eventidx --parallel --fast-vringh; done 2>&1 | stats --trim-outliers:

Before:
Using CPUS 0 and 3
Guest: notified 0, pinged 39009-39063(39062)
Host: notified 39009-39063(39062), pinged 0
Wall time:1.700000-1.950000(1.723542)

After:
Using CPUS 0 and 3
Guest: notified 0, pinged 39062-39063(39063)
Host: notified 39062-39063(39063), pinged 0
Wall time:1.760000-2.220000(1.789167)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
include/linux/virtio.h
tools/virtio/linux/scatterlist.h
tools/virtio/linux/virtio.h