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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue
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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.
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>
> 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?

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