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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] virtio: don't poll masked vectors with irqfd
@ 2012-12-18 12:39 Michael S. Tsirkin
  2012-12-18 12:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio-pci: don't poll masked vectors Michael S. Tsirkin
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin @ 2012-12-18 12:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Asias He; +Cc: Jan Kiszka, Marcelo Tosatti, qemu-devel, kvm, Peter Maydell

At the moment when vector is masked virtio will poll it
in userspace, even if it is handled by irqfd.
This is done in order to update pending bits, but
it's not really required until someone reads the pending bits.
On the other hand this read results in extra io thread wakeups.

As we only implement the pending bits as a compatibility
feature (read - real drivers don't use it), we can defer
the irqfd poll until the read actually happens.

This does not seem to affect vhost-net speed
in simple benchmarks but could help block: both
vhost-blk and dataplane when using irqfd,
and I also think this is cleaner than enabling/disabling
notifiers all the time.

This will also be the basis for future optimizations.

Michael S. Tsirkin (3):
  msi: add API to get notified about pending bit poll
  msix: expose access to masked/pending state
  virtio-pci: don't poll masked vectors

 hw/pci/msix.c   | 19 +++++++++++++++----
 hw/pci/msix.h   |  6 +++++-
 hw/pci/pci.h    |  4 ++++
 hw/vfio_pci.c   |  2 +-
 hw/virtio-pci.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 5 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

-- 
MST

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2012-12-19  8:59   ` Asias He
2012-12-19 11:29     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-19 12:35   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-12-18 12:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] msix: expose access to masked/pending state Michael S. Tsirkin
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