Drivers: hv: Add state to manage batched reading
For the "read" side signaling optimization, the reader has to completely
drain the queue before exiting. Add state to manage this "batched"
reading.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/hyperv.h b/include/linux/hyperv.h
index e73b852..1ffe84d 100644
--- a/include/linux/hyperv.h
+++ b/include/linux/hyperv.h
@@ -882,8 +882,28 @@
void (*onchannel_callback)(void *context);
void *channel_callback_context;
+
+ /*
+ * A channel can be marked for efficient (batched)
+ * reading:
+ * If batched_reading is set to "true", we read until the
+ * channel is empty and hold off interrupts from the host
+ * during the entire read process.
+ * If batched_reading is set to "false", the client is not
+ * going to perform batched reading.
+ *
+ * By default we will enable batched reading; specific
+ * drivers that don't want this behavior can turn it off.
+ */
+
+ bool batched_reading;
};
+static inline void set_channel_read_state(struct vmbus_channel *c, bool state)
+{
+ c->batched_reading = state;
+}
+
void vmbus_onmessage(void *context);
int vmbus_request_offers(void);