[RFC PATCH V2 1/5] vhost: generalize adding used elem

Jason Wang
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 07:18:08 -0000

Use one generic vhost_copy_to_user() instead of two dedicated
accessor. This will simplify the conversion to fine grain
accessors. About 2% improvement of PPS were seen during vitio-user
txonly test.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 11 +----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index a2e5dc7..400aa78 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -2251,16 +2251,7 @@ static int __vhost_add_used_n(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,

 	start = vq->last_used_idx & (vq->num - 1);
 	used = vq->used->ring + start;
-	if (count == 1) {
-		if (vhost_put_user(vq, heads[0].id, &used->id)) {
-			vq_err(vq, "Failed to write used id");
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
-		if (vhost_put_user(vq, heads[0].len, &used->len)) {
-			vq_err(vq, "Failed to write used len");
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
-	} else if (vhost_copy_to_user(vq, used, heads, count * sizeof *used)) {
+	if (vhost_copy_to_user(vq, used, heads, count * sizeof *used)) {
 		vq_err(vq, "Failed to write used");
 		return -EFAULT;
 	}
--
1.8.3.1