kni: add build option to disable preempting

This patch introduces CONFIG_RTE_KNI_PREEMPT_DEFAULT flag. When set to 'no',
KNI kernel thread(s) do not call schedule_timeout_interruptible(), which
improves overall KNI performance at the expense of CPU cycles (polling).

Default values is 'yes', maintaining the same behaviour as of now.

Signed-off-by: Marc Sune <marc.sune@bisdn.de>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>

diff --git a/config/common_linuxapp b/config/common_linuxapp
index 0234236..199ecf5 100644 (file)
--- a/config/common_linuxapp
+++ b/config/common_linuxapp
@@ -377,6 +377,7 @@ CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PIPELINE=y
 # Compile librte_kni
 #
 CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_KNI=y
+CONFIG_RTE_KNI_PREEMPT_DEFAULT=y
 CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KO_DEBUG=n
 CONFIG_RTE_KNI_VHOST=n
 CONFIG_RTE_KNI_VHOST_MAX_CACHE_SIZE=1024

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c
index 868b325..1935d32 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c
@@ -229,9 +229,11 @@ kni_thread_single(void *unused)
                        }
                }
                up_read(&kni_list_lock);
+#ifdef RTE_KNI_PREEMPT_DEFAULT
                /* reschedule out for a while */
                schedule_timeout_interruptible(usecs_to_jiffies( \
                                KNI_KTHREAD_RESCHEDULE_INTERVAL));
+#endif
        }
 
        return 0;
@@ -252,8 +254,10 @@ kni_thread_multiple(void *param)
 #endif
                        kni_net_poll_resp(dev);
                }
+#ifdef RTE_KNI_PREEMPT_DEFAULT
                schedule_timeout_interruptible(usecs_to_jiffies( \
                                KNI_KTHREAD_RESCHEDULE_INTERVAL));
+#endif
        }
 
        return 0;