Re: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Optimize vmbus_on_event

From: Wei Liu
Date: Mon Aug 15 2022 - 11:31:56 EST


On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 02:37:28AM -0700, Saurabh Sengar wrote:
> In the vmbus_on_event loop, 2 jiffies timer will not serve the purpose if
> callback_fn takes longer. For effective use move this check inside of
> callback functions where needed. Out of all the VMbus drivers using
> vmbus_on_event, only storvsc has a high packet volume, thus add this limit
> only in storvsc callback for now.
> There is no apparent benefit of loop itself because this tasklet will be
> scheduled anyway again if there are packets left in ring buffer. This
> patch removes this unnecessary loop as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar <ssengar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Unfortunately this missed the recent merge window so it will be picked
up for the next release.

Thanks,
Wei.