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-rw-r--r--drivers/vhost/net.c14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 93f2d6741f34..28ad7752e0f3 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -197,8 +197,18 @@ static void vhost_zerocopy_callback(struct ubuf_info *ubuf, bool success)
{
struct vhost_ubuf_ref *ubufs = ubuf->ctx;
struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = ubufs->vq;
-
- vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
+ int cnt = atomic_read(&ubufs->kref.refcount);
+
+ /*
+ * Trigger polling thread if guest stopped submitting new buffers:
+ * in this case, the refcount after decrement will eventually reach 1
+ * so here it is 2.
+ * We also trigger polling periodically after each 16 packets
+ * (the value 16 here is more or less arbitrary, it's tuned to trigger
+ * less than 10% of times).
+ */
+ if (cnt <= 2 || !(cnt % 16))
+ vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
/* set len to mark this desc buffers done DMA */
vq->heads[ubuf->desc].len = success ?
VHOST_DMA_DONE_LEN : VHOST_DMA_FAILED_LEN;