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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	KVM mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: performance of virtual functions compared to virtio
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:31:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=JVt4=T7UHKnXdBsnsjS_O714EPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DAFE5BE.1070506@redhat.com>

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> Note I think in both cases we can make significant improvements:
> - for VFs, steer device interrupts to the cpus which run the vcpus that will
> receive the interrupts eventually (ISTR some work about this, but not sure)
> - for virtio, use a DMA engine to copy data (I think there exists code in
> upstream which does this, but has this been enabled/tuned?)

Which data copy in virtio?  Is this a vhost-net specific thing you're
thinking about?

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-21 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-21  1:57 performance of virtual functions compared to virtio David Ahern
2011-04-21  2:35 ` Alex Williamson
2011-04-21  8:07   ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-21 12:31     ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2011-04-21 13:09       ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-25 17:49         ` David Ahern
2011-04-26  8:19           ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-27 21:13             ` David Ahern
2011-04-28  8:07               ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-25 17:46     ` David Ahern
2011-04-26  8:20       ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-25 17:39   ` David Ahern
2011-04-25 18:13     ` Alex Williamson
2011-04-25 19:07       ` David Ahern
2011-04-25 19:29         ` Alex Williamson
2011-04-25 19:49           ` David Ahern
2011-04-25 20:27             ` Alex Williamson
2011-04-25 20:40               ` David Ahern
2011-04-25 21:02                 ` Alex Williamson
2011-04-25 21:14                   ` David Ahern
2011-04-25 21:18                     ` Alex Williamson
2011-04-25 20:49             ` Andrew Theurer
2011-05-02 18:58         ` David Ahern

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