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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: "Wu, Feng" <feng.wu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	"Zhang,
	Yang Z" <yang.z.zhang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	Alex Williamson
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/13] KVM: Update IRTE according to guest interrupt configuration changes
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:56:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54632ECA.4070903@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E959C4978C3B6342920538CF579893F00227680F-0J0gbvR4kTg/UvCtAeCM4rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>



On 12/11/2014 10:19, Wu, Feng wrote:
>> You can certainly backport these patches to distros that do not have
>> VFIO.  But upstream we should work on VFIO first.  VFIO has feature
>> parity with legacy device assignment, and adding a new feature that is
>> not in VFIO would be a bad idea.
>>
>> By the way, do you have benchmark results for it?  We have not been able
>> to see any performance improvement for APICv on e.g. netperf.
> 
> Do you mean benchmark results for APICv itself or VT-d Posted-Interrtups?

Especially for VT-d posted interrupts---but it'd be great to know which
workloads see the biggest speedup from APICv.

Paolo

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Wu, Feng" <feng.wu@intel.com>,
	"Zhang, Yang Z" <yang.z.zhang@intel.com>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: "gleb@kernel.org" <gleb@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/13] KVM: Update IRTE according to guest interrupt configuration changes
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:56:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54632ECA.4070903@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E959C4978C3B6342920538CF579893F00227680F@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com>



On 12/11/2014 10:19, Wu, Feng wrote:
>> You can certainly backport these patches to distros that do not have
>> VFIO.  But upstream we should work on VFIO first.  VFIO has feature
>> parity with legacy device assignment, and adding a new feature that is
>> not in VFIO would be a bad idea.
>>
>> By the way, do you have benchmark results for it?  We have not been able
>> to see any performance improvement for APICv on e.g. netperf.
> 
> Do you mean benchmark results for APICv itself or VT-d Posted-Interrtups?

Especially for VT-d posted interrupts---but it'd be great to know which
workloads see the biggest speedup from APICv.

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-12  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-11  9:20 [PATCH 05/13] KVM: Update IRTE according to guest interrupt configuration changes Wu, Feng
2014-11-11  9:20 ` Wu, Feng
2014-11-11 11:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]   ` <5461EC99.1000101-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-11 12:28     ` Wu, Feng
2014-11-11 12:28       ` Wu, Feng
2014-11-12  3:42     ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-11-12  3:42       ` Zhang, Yang Z
     [not found]       ` <A9667DDFB95DB7438FA9D7D576C3D87E0ABDBB25-0J0gbvR4kTg/UvCtAeCM4rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-12  9:14         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12  9:14           ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]           ` <546324F4.8010002-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-12  9:19             ` Wu, Feng
2014-11-12  9:19               ` Wu, Feng
     [not found]               ` <E959C4978C3B6342920538CF579893F00227680F-0J0gbvR4kTg/UvCtAeCM4rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-12  9:56                 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-11-12  9:56                   ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]                   ` <54632ECA.4070903-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-13  1:14                     ` Wu, Feng
2014-11-13  1:14                       ` Wu, Feng
     [not found]                       ` <E959C4978C3B6342920538CF579893F002284398-0J0gbvR4kTg/UvCtAeCM4rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-13  1:21                         ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-11-13  1:21                           ` Zhang, Yang Z
     [not found]                           ` <A9667DDFB95DB7438FA9D7D576C3D87E0ABE5A68-0J0gbvR4kTg/UvCtAeCM4rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-13  1:30                             ` Wu, Feng
2014-11-13  1:30                               ` Wu, Feng
     [not found]                               ` <E959C4978C3B6342920538CF579893F00228443D-0J0gbvR4kTg/UvCtAeCM4rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-13  1:46                                 ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-11-13  1:46                                   ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-11-12 17:11             ` Alex Williamson
2014-11-12 17:11               ` Alex Williamson
     [not found]               ` <1415812284.16601.372.camel-85EaTFmN5p//9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-13 11:39                 ` Wu, Feng
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-11-11 13:02 Wu, Feng
2014-11-11 13:02 ` Wu, Feng
2014-11-11 11:22 Wu, Feng
2014-11-11 11:22 ` Wu, Feng
2014-11-10  6:26 [PATCH 00/13] Add VT-d Posted-Interrupts support for KVM Feng Wu
     [not found] ` <1415600812-27773-1-git-send-email-feng.wu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-10  6:26   ` [PATCH 05/13] KVM: Update IRTE according to guest interrupt configuration changes Feng Wu
2014-11-10  6:26     ` Feng Wu
     [not found]     ` <1415600812-27773-6-git-send-email-feng.wu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-10 21:57       ` Alex Williamson
2014-11-10 21:57         ` Alex Williamson

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