[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] vhost: fix long stall of vhost-user negotiation

[Yuanhan Liu]

Setting up the mapping from GPA (guest physical address) to HPA (guest
physical address) could be very time consuming when the guest memory is
backened with small pages (4K). The bigger the guest memory, the longer
it takes. This could lead a very long vhost-user negotiation.

Since the mapping is only needed in zero copy mode so far, we could
avoid such time consuming settup when zero copy is turned off (which is
the default case).

It's actually a workaround, a right fix might be to start a new thread,
and hide the big latency there.

Fixes: e246896178e6 ("vhost: get guest/host physical address mappings")

Cc: stable at dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
index 7343a00..ab7f3fc 100644
--- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
+++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
@@ -567,7 +567,8 @@
 		reg->host_user_addr = (uint64_t)(uintptr_t)mmap_addr +
 				      mmap_offset;
 
-		add_guest_pages(dev, reg, alignment);
+		if (dev->dequeue_zero_copy)
+			add_guest_pages(dev, reg, alignment);
 
 		RTE_LOG(INFO, VHOST_CONFIG,
 			"guest memory region %u, size: 0x%" PRIx64 "\n"
-- 
1.9.0