Re: [PATCH RFC] kvm: add PV MMIO EVENTFD

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 04:14:57PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > 
> > >>> is to move to MMIO only when PIO address space is exhausted. For PCI it
> > >>> will be never, for PCI-e it will be after ~16 devices.
> > >> 
> > >> Ok, let's go back a step here. Are you actually able to measure any speed in performance with this patch applied and without when going through MMIO kicks?
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > > That's the question for MST. I think he did only micro benchmarks till
> > > now and he already posted his result here:
> > > 
> > > mmio-wildcard-eventfd:pci-mem 3529
> > > mmio-pv-eventfd:pci-mem 1878
> > > portio-wildcard-eventfd:pci-io 1846
> > > 
> > > So the patch speedup mmio by almost 100% and it is almost the same as PIO.
> > 
> > Those numbers don't align at all with what I measured.
> I am trying to run vmexit test on AMD now, but something does not work
> there. Next week I'll fix it and see how AMD differs, bit on Intel those are the
> numbers.
> 
The numbers are:
vmcall 1921
inl_from_kernel 4227
outl_to_kernel 2345

outl is specifically optimized to not go through the emulator since it
is used for virtio kick. mmio-pv-eventfd is the same kind of
optimization but for mmio.
 
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			Gleb.