Re: [PATCH 00/10] PV-IO v3

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Dor Laor wrote:
>>>>         2) We either need huge descriptors or some chaining
>>>>         
>> mechanism to
>>     
>>>>         handle scatter-gather.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Or, my preference, have a small sglist in the descriptor;
>>>       
>> Define "small" ;)
>>
>> There a certainly patterns that cannot/will-not take advantage of SG
>> (for instance, your typical network rx path), and therefore the sg
>> entries are wasted in some cases.  Since they need to be (IMHO) u64,
>> they suck down at least 8 bytes a piece.  Because of this I elected to
>> use the model of one pointer per descriptor, with an external
>>     
> descriptor
>   
>> for SG.  What are your thoughts on this?
>>     
>
> Using Rusty's code there is no waste.
> Each descriptor has a flag (head|next). Next flag stands for pointer to
> the
> next descriptor with u32 next index. So the waste is 4 bytes.
> Sg descriptors are chained on the same descriptor ring.
>   

Block I/O can easily require 256 sglist entries, eating up your ring.


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