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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Wu, Feng" <feng.wu@intel.com>,
	"Zhang, Yang Z" <yang.z.zhang@intel.com>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: "gleb@kernel.org" <gleb@kernel.org>,
	"dwmw2@infradead.org" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	"joro@8bytes.org" <joro@8bytes.org>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org"
	<iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/13] KVM: Update IRTE according to guest interrupt configuration changes
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:56:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54632ECA.4070903@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E959C4978C3B6342920538CF579893F00227680F@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com>



On 12/11/2014 10:19, Wu, Feng wrote:
>> You can certainly backport these patches to distros that do not have
>> VFIO.  But upstream we should work on VFIO first.  VFIO has feature
>> parity with legacy device assignment, and adding a new feature that is
>> not in VFIO would be a bad idea.
>>
>> By the way, do you have benchmark results for it?  We have not been able
>> to see any performance improvement for APICv on e.g. netperf.
> 
> Do you mean benchmark results for APICv itself or VT-d Posted-Interrtups?

Especially for VT-d posted interrupts---but it'd be great to know which
workloads see the biggest speedup from APICv.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-12  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-11  9:20 [PATCH 05/13] KVM: Update IRTE according to guest interrupt configuration changes Wu, Feng
2014-11-11 11:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-11 12:28   ` Wu, Feng
2014-11-12  3:42   ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-11-12  9:14     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12  9:19       ` Wu, Feng
2014-11-12  9:56         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-11-13  1:14           ` Wu, Feng
2014-11-13  1:21             ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-11-13  1:30               ` Wu, Feng
2014-11-13  1:46                 ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-11-12 17:11       ` Alex Williamson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-11-11 13:02 Wu, Feng
2014-11-11 11:22 Wu, Feng
2014-11-10  6:26 [PATCH 00/13] Add VT-d Posted-Interrupts support for KVM Feng Wu
2014-11-10  6:26 ` [PATCH 05/13] KVM: Update IRTE according to guest interrupt configuration changes Feng Wu
2014-11-10 21:57   ` Alex Williamson

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