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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] iothread: enable AioContext polling by default
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] iothread: enable AioContext polling by default |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:09:44 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) |
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 05:01:19PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> IOThread AioContexts are likely to consist only of event sources like
> virtqueue ioeventfds and LinuxAIO completion eventfds that are pollable
> from userspace (without system calls).
>
> We recently merged the AioContext polling feature but didn't enable it
> by default yet. I have gone back over the performance data on the
> mailing list and picked a default polling value that gave good results.
>
> Let's enable AioContext polling by default so users don't have another
> switch they need to set manually. If performance regressions are found
> we can still disable this for the QEMU 2.9 release.
>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden>
> Cc: Karl Rister <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> ---
> iothread.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
Thanks, applied to my block tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block
Stefan
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