vhost: introduce vhost_has_work()

This path introduces a helper which can give a hint for whether or not
there's a work queued in the work list. This could be used for busy
polling code to exit the busy loop.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Jason Wang 2016-03-04 06:24:51 -05:00 committed by Michael S. Tsirkin
parent fd0e21c31e
commit 526d3e7ff5
2 changed files with 8 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -263,6 +263,13 @@ void vhost_work_queue(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_work *work)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_work_queue);
/* A lockless hint for busy polling code to exit the loop */
bool vhost_has_work(struct vhost_dev *dev)
{
return !list_empty(&dev->work_list);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_has_work);
void vhost_poll_queue(struct vhost_poll *poll)
{
vhost_work_queue(poll->dev, &poll->work);

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@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ struct vhost_poll {
void vhost_work_init(struct vhost_work *work, vhost_work_fn_t fn);
void vhost_work_queue(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_work *work);
bool vhost_has_work(struct vhost_dev *dev);
void vhost_poll_init(struct vhost_poll *poll, vhost_work_fn_t fn,
unsigned long mask, struct vhost_dev *dev);