From dae88b9a53c2bbdc8a60d05efa7e879e2544eb5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Barach Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 09:38:35 -0400 Subject: VPP-6: set epoll wait-time to zero when binary API messages are waiting Change-Id: I629ef98ecd3b729d2564b3a1ba8c6039f854f86c Signed-off-by: Dave Barach --- vlib/vlib/main.h | 3 ++- vlib/vlib/unix/input.c | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'vlib') diff --git a/vlib/vlib/main.h b/vlib/vlib/main.h index 1a110459826..ef36c1e39ac 100644 --- a/vlib/vlib/main.h +++ b/vlib/vlib/main.h @@ -168,8 +168,9 @@ typedef struct vlib_main_t { vlib_config_function_runtime_t *config_function_registrations; mc_serialize_msg_t *mc_msg_registrations; /* mc_main is a pointer... */ - /* control-plane API queue signal pending */ + /* control-plane API queue signal pending, length indication */ volatile u32 queue_signal_pending; + volatile u32 api_queue_nonempty; void (*queue_signal_callback)(struct vlib_main_t *); u8 **argv; } vlib_main_t; diff --git a/vlib/vlib/unix/input.c b/vlib/vlib/unix/input.c index 62b32544b94..543e2c000a7 100644 --- a/vlib/vlib/unix/input.c +++ b/vlib/vlib/unix/input.c @@ -127,10 +127,12 @@ linux_epoll_input (vlib_main_t * vm, if (nm->input_node_counts_by_state[VLIB_NODE_STATE_POLLING] > 0) timeout_ms = 0; - if (vector_rate > 1) + /* + * When busy: don't wait & only epoll for input + * every 1024 times through main loop. + */ + if (vector_rate > 1 || vm->api_queue_nonempty) { - /* When busy don't wait & only epoll for input every 8 times - through main loop. */ timeout_ms = 0; node->input_main_loops_per_call = 1024; } -- cgit 1.2.3-korg