[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-rng: Bump up quota value only when guest requests entropy

[Pankaj Gupta]

   Timer was added in virtio-rng to rate limit the 
entropy. It used to trigger at regular intervals to 
bump up the quota value. The value of quota and timer 
slice is decided based on entropy source rate in host. 
This resulted in triggring of timer even when quota 
is not exhausted at all and resulting in extra processing.

This patch triggers timer only when guest requests for 
entropy. As soon as first request from guest for entropy 
comes we set the timer. Timer bumps up the quota value 
when it gets triggered.

Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <address@hidden>
---
 hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c         | 15 ++++++++-------
 include/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c
index 22b1d87..8774a0c 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c
@@ -78,6 +78,12 @@ static void virtio_rng_process(VirtIORNG *vrng)
         return;
     }
 
+    if (vrng->activate_timer) {
+        timer_mod(vrng->rate_limit_timer,
+                   qemu_clock_get_ms(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL) + 
vrng->conf.period_ms);
+        vrng->activate_timer = false;
+    }
+
     if (vrng->quota_remaining < 0) {
         quota = 0;
     } else {
@@ -139,8 +145,7 @@ static void check_rate_limit(void *opaque)
 
     vrng->quota_remaining = vrng->conf.max_bytes;
     virtio_rng_process(vrng);
-    timer_mod(vrng->rate_limit_timer,
-                   qemu_clock_get_ms(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL) + 
vrng->conf.period_ms);
+    vrng->activate_timer = true;
 }
 
 static void virtio_rng_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
@@ -196,13 +201,9 @@ static void virtio_rng_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, 
Error **errp)
 
     vrng->vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 8, handle_input);
     vrng->quota_remaining = vrng->conf.max_bytes;
-
     vrng->rate_limit_timer = timer_new_ms(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL,
                                                check_rate_limit, vrng);
-
-    timer_mod(vrng->rate_limit_timer,
-                   qemu_clock_get_ms(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL) + 
vrng->conf.period_ms);
-
+    vrng->activate_timer = true;
     register_savevm(dev, "virtio-rng", -1, 1, virtio_rng_save,
                     virtio_rng_load, vrng);
 }
diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.h
index 0316488..3f07de7 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ typedef struct VirtIORNG {
      */
     QEMUTimer *rate_limit_timer;
     int64_t quota_remaining;
+    bool activate_timer;
 } VirtIORNG;
 
 #endif
-- 
1.9.3