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authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2016-12-01 19:26:46 +0000
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2017-01-03 16:38:49 +0000
commit9ef9d40261cc05c01545f46b49dddfe39602e1c8 (patch)
tree751648e1ce32ef238a790f62a41c72727e8d255f /hw
parent0d9d86fb4df4882ba4ad9968efe81eca1c7b7c90 (diff)
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virtio-blk: suppress virtqueue kick during processing
The guest does not need to kick the virtqueue while we are processing
it.  This reduces the number of vmexits during periods of heavy I/O.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20161201192652.9509-8-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'hw')
-rw-r--r--hw/block/virtio-blk.c18
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/hw/block/virtio-blk.c b/hw/block/virtio-blk.c
index 0c5fd27593..50bb0cbb93 100644
--- a/hw/block/virtio-blk.c
+++ b/hw/block/virtio-blk.c
@@ -588,13 +588,19 @@ void virtio_blk_handle_vq(VirtIOBlock *s, VirtQueue *vq)
 
     blk_io_plug(s->blk);
 
-    while ((req = virtio_blk_get_request(s, vq))) {
-        if (virtio_blk_handle_request(req, &mrb)) {
-            virtqueue_detach_element(req->vq, &req->elem, 0);
-            virtio_blk_free_request(req);
-            break;
+    do {
+        virtio_queue_set_notification(vq, 0);
+
+        while ((req = virtio_blk_get_request(s, vq))) {
+            if (virtio_blk_handle_request(req, &mrb)) {
+                virtqueue_detach_element(req->vq, &req->elem, 0);
+                virtio_blk_free_request(req);
+                break;
+            }
         }
-    }
+
+        virtio_queue_set_notification(vq, 1);
+    } while (!virtio_queue_empty(vq));
 
     if (mrb.num_reqs) {
         virtio_blk_submit_multireq(s->blk, &mrb);