From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Only select once per-main_loop iteration
Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 16:03:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481DB419.8010804@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209869233-17324-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> QEMU is rather aggressive about exhausting the wait period when selecting.
> This is fine when the wait period is low and when there is significant delays
> in-between selects as it improves IO throughput.
>
> With the IO thread, there is a very small delay between selects and our wait
> period for select is very large. This patch changes main_loop_wait to only
> select once before doing the various other things in the main loop. This
> generally improves responsiveness of things like SDL but also improves
> individual file descriptor throughput quite dramatically.
>
> This patch is relies on my io-thread-timerfd.patch.
>
(did you mean signalfd?)
Patchset looks good; but as it depends on previous patches I can't apply
it yet.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-04 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-04 2:47 [PATCH 1/4] Only select once per-main_loop iteration Anthony Liguori
2008-05-04 2:47 ` [PATCH 2/4] Revert virtio tap hack Anthony Liguori
2008-05-04 4:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-04 8:01 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-04 2:47 ` [PATCH 3/4] Make virtio-net can_receive more accurate Anthony Liguori
2008-05-04 2:47 ` [PATCH 4/4] Stop dropping so many RX packets in tap Anthony Liguori
2008-05-04 13:03 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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