xen-netback: Aggregate TX unmap operations

Unmapping causes TLB flushing, therefore we should make it in the largest
possible batches. However we shouldn't starve the guest for too long. So if
the guest has space for at least two big packets and we don't have at least a
quarter ring to unmap, delay it for at most 1 milisec.

Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
index 8518a0d1f6f9..bc943205a691 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ static inline pending_ring_idx_t pending_index(unsigned i)
         return i & (MAX_PENDING_REQS-1);
 }
 
+static inline pending_ring_idx_t nr_free_slots(struct xen_netif_tx_back_ring *ring)
+{
+        return ring->nr_ents -  (ring->sring->req_prod - ring->rsp_prod_pvt);
+}
+
 bool xenvif_rx_ring_slots_available(struct xenvif *vif, int needed)
 {
         RING_IDX prod, cons;
@@ -1716,9 +1721,36 @@ static inline int tx_work_todo(struct xenvif *vif)
         return 0;
 }
 
+static void xenvif_dealloc_delay(unsigned long data)
+{
+        struct xenvif *vif = (struct xenvif *)data;
+
+        vif->dealloc_delay_timed_out = true;
+        wake_up(&vif->dealloc_wq);
+}
+
 static inline bool tx_dealloc_work_todo(struct xenvif *vif)
 {
-        return vif->dealloc_cons != vif->dealloc_prod;
+        if (vif->dealloc_cons != vif->dealloc_prod) {
+                if ((nr_free_slots(&vif->tx) > 2 * XEN_NETBK_LEGACY_SLOTS_MAX) &&
+                    (vif->dealloc_prod - vif->dealloc_cons < MAX_PENDING_REQS / 4) &&
+                    !vif->dealloc_delay_timed_out) {
+                        if (!timer_pending(&vif->dealloc_delay)) {
+                                vif->dealloc_delay.function =
+                                        xenvif_dealloc_delay;
+                                vif->dealloc_delay.data = (unsigned long)vif;
+                                mod_timer(&vif->dealloc_delay,
+                                          jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(1));
+
+                        }
+                        return false;
+                }
+                del_timer_sync(&vif->dealloc_delay);
+                vif->dealloc_delay_timed_out = false;
+                return true;
+        }
+
+        return false;
 }
 
 void xenvif_unmap_frontend_rings(struct xenvif *vif)