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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-07-29 18:58:36 +0400
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-07-29 03:58:36 +0400
commitaa1249840bfc8d62431eed5796bf99887b963ab6 (patch)
tree35cf6cd82910af52e271c5e78ad47529e6daaed6 /Documentation
parenta161883a29bf6100efe7b5346bec274e5023c29c (diff)
downloadlinux-aa1249840bfc8d62431eed5796bf99887b963ab6.tar.xz
lguest: Adaptive timeout
Since the correct timeout value varies, use a heuristic which adjusts the timeout depending on how many packets we've seen. This gives slightly worse results, but doesn't need tweaking when GSO is introduced. 500 usec 19.1887 xmit 561141 recv 1 timeout 559657 Dynamic (278) 20.1974 xmit 214510 recv 5 timeout 214491 usec 278 Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/lguest/lguest.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
index 018472cee151..b2bbbb7f8c57 100644
--- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
+++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ static void *guest_base;
static unsigned long guest_limit, guest_max;
/* The pipe for signal hander to write to. */
static int timeoutpipe[2];
+static unsigned int timeout_usec = 500;
/* a per-cpu variable indicating whose vcpu is currently running */
static unsigned int __thread cpu_id;
@@ -905,7 +906,7 @@ static void block_vq(struct virtqueue *vq)
itm.it_interval.tv_sec = 0;
itm.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
itm.it_value.tv_sec = 0;
- itm.it_value.tv_usec = 500;
+ itm.it_value.tv_usec = timeout_usec;
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &itm, NULL);
}
@@ -922,6 +923,7 @@ static void handle_net_output(int fd, struct virtqueue *vq, bool timeout)
unsigned int head, out, in, num = 0;
int len;
struct iovec iov[vq->vring.num];
+ static int last_timeout_num;
/* Keep getting output buffers from the Guest until we run out. */
while ((head = get_vq_desc(vq, iov, &out, &in)) != vq->vring.num) {
@@ -939,6 +941,14 @@ static void handle_net_output(int fd, struct virtqueue *vq, bool timeout)
/* Block further kicks and set up a timer if we saw anything. */
if (!timeout && num)
block_vq(vq);
+
+ if (timeout) {
+ if (num < last_timeout_num)
+ timeout_usec += 10;
+ else if (timeout_usec > 1)
+ timeout_usec--;
+ last_timeout_num = num;
+ }
}
/* This is where we handle a packet coming in from the tun device to our