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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Oct 2010 18:12:38 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:01:14AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 10/04/2010 03:04 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 10/04/2010 03:18 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>On 10/03/2010 09:28 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>This is using eventfd as well.
> >>>Sorry, I meant irqfd.
> >>
> >>I've tried using irqfd in userspace. It hurts performance quite
> >>a bit compared to doing an ioctl so I would suspect this too.
> >>
> >>A last_used_idx or similar mechanism should help performance
> >>quite a bit on top of ioeventfd too.
> >>
> >
> >Any idea why? While irqfd does quite a bit of extra locking, it
> >shouldn't be that bad.
>
> Not really. It was somewhat counter intuitive.
>
> A worthwhile experiment might be to do some layering violations and
> have vhost do an irq injection via an ioctl and see what the
> performance delta is.
I think you don't even need to try that hard.
Just comment this line:
// proxy->pci_dev.msix_mask_notifier = virtio_pci_mask_notifier;
this is what switches to irqfd when msi vector is unmasked.
> I suspect it could give vhost a nice boost.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Avi Kivity, 2010/10/03
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2010/10/03
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Avi Kivity, 2010/10/03
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2010/10/03
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Avi Kivity, 2010/10/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify,
Michael S. Tsirkin <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2010/10/04
[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2010/10/04
[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, rukhsana ansari, 2010/10/05