From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: [PATCHv3 0/2] kvm: set irq affinity for assigned devices Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:25:20 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Avi Kivity , Marcelo Tosatti , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alex Williamson Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org To forward an interrupt to a vcpu that runs on a host cpu different from the current one, we need an ipi which likely will cost us as much as delivering the interrupt directly to that cpu would. So it seems to make sense to set irq affinity hint to point there, irq balancer can then take this into accound and balance interrupts accordingly. This is what this patchset does. Note: it might make sense to optimize the gsi lookups here for the msi case, using rcu, the way we did for eventfd. But that's a subject for another patch. Testing shows that with irqbalance running this performs basically the same as manual numa pinning. This patch applies to 3.2 or linux-next. Changes from v1: Address comments by Alex Williamson and Marcelo Tosatti: - Fold in v2 patch from 20111017170440.GA8894@redhat.com: fix affinity for lowest priority setups, - Disable automatic affinity for round robin setups. - Fix compiler warnings. - Fix a checkpatch warning. - Clear hint before free irq for MSI/INTx. Michael S. Tsirkin (2): kvm: pass host irq number to set irq calls kvm: set affinity hint for assigned device msi arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c | 4 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +- include/linux/kvm_host.h | 7 ++++--- virt/kvm/assigned-dev.c | 14 +++++++++----- virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 7 ++++--- virt/kvm/ioapic.c | 2 +- virt/kvm/ioapic.h | 2 +- virt/kvm/irq_comm.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 9 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) -- 1.7.8.2.325.g247f9