[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] hw/virtio/vring/event_idx: fix the vring_avail_event error

[Bin Wu]

The event idx in virtio is an effective way to reduce the number of
interrupts and exits of the guest. When the guest puts an request
into the virtio ring, it doesn't exit immediately to inform the
backend. Instead, the guest checks the "avail" event idx to determine
the notification.

In virtqueue_pop, when a request is poped, the current avail event
idx should be set to the number of vq->last_avail_idx.

Signed-off-by: Bin Wu <address@hidden>
---
V2 -> V1:
update the same code in hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.c (Stefan)
---
 hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.c | 8 ++++----
 hw/virtio/virtio.c          | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.c b/hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.c
index 372706a..61f6d83 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.c
@@ -352,10 +352,6 @@ int vring_pop(VirtIODevice *vdev, Vring *vring,
         goto out;
     }
 
-    if (vdev->guest_features & (1 << VIRTIO_RING_F_EVENT_IDX)) {
-        vring_avail_event(&vring->vr) = vring->vr.avail->idx;
-    }
-
     i = head;
     do {
         if (unlikely(i >= num)) {
@@ -392,6 +388,10 @@ int vring_pop(VirtIODevice *vdev, Vring *vring,
 
     /* On success, increment avail index. */
     vring->last_avail_idx++;
+    if (vdev->guest_features & (1 << VIRTIO_RING_F_EVENT_IDX)) {
+        vring_avail_event(&vring->vr) = vring->last_avail_idx;
+    }
+
     return head;
 
 out:
diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
index 2c236bf..013979a 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ int virtqueue_pop(VirtQueue *vq, VirtQueueElement *elem)
 
     i = head = virtqueue_get_head(vq, vq->last_avail_idx++);
     if (vdev->guest_features & (1 << VIRTIO_RING_F_EVENT_IDX)) {
-        vring_avail_event(vq, vring_avail_idx(vq));
+        vring_avail_event(vq, vq->last_avail_idx);
     }
 
     if (vring_desc_flags(vdev, desc_pa, i) & VRING_DESC_F_INDIRECT) {
-- 
1.7.12.4