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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Dong, Eddie" <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] Moving the kvm ioapic, pic, and pit back to userspace
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:59:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C1054F7.4030904@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1A42CE6F5F474C41B63392A5F80372B21F26E3A1@shsmsx501.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On 06/10/2010 05:37 AM, Dong, Eddie wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
>> On 06/09/2010 06:59 PM, Dong, Eddie wrote:
>>      
>>> Besides VF IO interrupt and timer interrupt introduced performance
>>> overhead risk,
>>>        
>> VF usually uses MSI
>>      
> Typo, I mean PV IO.
>    

That also uses MSI these days.

> A VF interrupt usually happens in 4-8KHZ. How about the virtio?
> I assume virtio will be widely used together w/ leagcy guest with INTx mode.
>    

True, but in time it will be replaced by MSI.

Note without vhost virtio is also in userspace, so there are lots of 
exits anyway for the status register.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-10  2:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-07 15:26 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Moving the kvm ioapic, pic, and pit back to userspace Avi Kivity
2010-06-07 16:31 ` [Qemu-devel] " David S. Ahern
2010-06-07 18:46   ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-07 18:54     ` David S. Ahern
2010-06-07 19:16       ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-07 17:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 18:42   ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-07 22:23     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08  5:48       ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-09 15:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Dong, Eddie
2010-06-09 16:05   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-06-10  2:37     ` [Qemu-devel] " Dong, Eddie
2010-06-10  2:59       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-06-10 14:42         ` Dong, Eddie

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