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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:19:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CDFD3BE.8090702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CDFC288.9050800@redhat.com>

On 11/14/2010 01:05 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> I agree, but let's enable virtio-ioeventfd carefully because bad code
>> is out there.
>
>
> Sure.  Note as long as the thread waiting on ioeventfd doesn't consume 
> too much cpu, it will awaken quickly and we won't have the 
> "transaction per timeslice" effect.
>
> btw, what about virtio-blk with linux-aio?  Have you benchmarked that 
> with and without ioeventfd?
>

And, what about efficiency?  As in bits/cycle?

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-14 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-11 13:47 [PATCH v2 0/3] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-11-11 13:47 ` [PATCH 1/3] virtio-pci: Rename bugs field to flags Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-11-11 13:47 ` [PATCH 2/3] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-11-11 15:53   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-12  9:18     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-11-12  9:25       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-12 13:10         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-11-11 16:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-12  9:20     ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-11-14 10:34       ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-14 10:37         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-11-14 11:05           ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-14 12:19             ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-11-15 11:20               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-01 11:44                 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-01 12:30                   ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-01 21:34                     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-06 15:09                       ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-11 16:59   ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-11 17:12     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-11 17:55       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-11-11 13:47 ` [PATCH 3/3] virtio-pci: Don't use ioeventfd on old kernels Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-11-11 17:46 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify Michael S. Tsirkin

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