vhost: wake up worker outside spin_lock
authorQin Chuanyu <qinchuanyu@huawei.com>
Fri, 7 Jun 2013 13:50:16 +0000 (21:50 +0800)
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 06:21:32 +0000 (09:21 +0300)
commitac9fde2474d04bd6574a037482e3de02b488a6c6
treeb653c2581667d160a916f9680f9fd514360b5b54
parent272b98c6455f00884f0350f775c5342358ebb73f
vhost: wake up worker outside spin_lock

the wake_up_process func is included by spin_lock/unlock in
vhost_work_queue,
but it could be done outside the spin_lock.
I have test it with kernel 3.0.27 and guest suse11-sp2 using iperf,
the num as below.
                  original                 modified
thread_num  tp(Gbps)   vhost(%)  |  tp(Gbps)     vhost(%)
1           9.59        28.82    |   9.59        27.49
8           9.61        32.92    |   9.62        26.77
64          9.58        46.48    |   9.55        38.99
256         9.6         63.7     |   9.6         52.59

Signed-off-by: Chuanyu Qin <qinchuanyu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
drivers/vhost/vhost.c