Date:   Thu, 13 Jan 2022 10:19:46 -0500
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To:     Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Cc:     virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        stefanha@redhat.com, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] vhost: cache avail index in vhost_enable_notify()
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 03:56:42PM +0100, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> In vhost_enable_notify() we enable the notifications and we read
> the avail index to check if new buffers have become available in
> the meantime. In this case, the device would go to re-read avail
> index to access the descriptor.
> 
> As we already do in other place, we can cache the value in `avail_idx`
> and compare it with `last_avail_idx` to check if there are new
> buffers available.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>

I guess we can ... but what's the point?

> ---
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index 59edb5a1ffe2..07363dff559e 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -2543,8 +2543,9 @@ bool vhost_enable_notify(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
>  		       &vq->avail->idx, r);
>  		return false;
>  	}
> +	vq->avail_idx = vhost16_to_cpu(vq, avail_idx);
>  
> -	return vhost16_to_cpu(vq, avail_idx) != vq->avail_idx;
> +	return vq->avail_idx != vq->last_avail_idx;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_enable_notify);
>  
> -- 
> 2.31.1