lguest: improve interrupt handling, speed up stream networking

lguest never checked for pending interrupts when enabling interrupts, and
things still worked.  However, it makes a significant difference to TCP
performance, so it's time we fixed it by introducing a pending_irq flag
and checking it on irq_restore and irq_enable.

These two routines are now too big to patch into the 8/10 bytes
patch space, so we drop that code.

Note: The high latency on interrupt delivery had a very curious
effect: once everything else was optimized, networking without GSO was
faster than networking with GSO, since more interrupts were sent and
hence a greater chance of one getting through to the Guest!

Note2: (Almost) Closing the same loophole for iret doesn't have any
measurable effect, so I'm leaving that patch for the moment.

Before:
	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host:		30.7 seconds
	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO):	76.0 seconds

After:
	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host:		6.8 seconds
	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO):	27.8 seconds

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/lguest.h b/include/linux/lguest.h
index 175e63f..7bc1440 100644
--- a/include/linux/lguest.h
+++ b/include/linux/lguest.h
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ struct lguest_data
 	/* Wallclock time set by the Host. */
 	struct timespec time;
 
+	/* Interrupt pending set by the Host.  The Guest should do a hypercall
+	 * if it re-enables interrupts and sees this set (to X86_EFLAGS_IF). */
+	int irq_pending;
+
 	/* Async hypercall ring.  Instead of directly making hypercalls, we can
 	 * place them in here for processing the next time the Host wants.
 	 * This batching can be quite efficient. */