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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	mst@redhat.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Sharing MSIX irq for tx/rx queue pairs
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 12:09:36 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppauovjb.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1419562425-20614-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com>

Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> writes:
> Hi all:
>
> This series try to share MSIX irq for each tx/rx queue pair. This is
> done through:
>
> - introducing virtio pci channel which are group of virtqueues that
>   sharing a single MSIX irq (Patch 1)
> - expose channel setting to virtio core api (Patch 2)
> - try to use channel setting in virtio-net (Patch 3)

Hi Jason,

        Is "channel" a term you created yourself, or something I was
just unaware of?  irq_group would seem more obvious, if the former.

> For the transport that does not support channel, channel paramters
> were simply ignored. For devices that does not use channel, it can
> simply pass NULL or zero to virito core.
>
> With the patch, 1 MSIX irq were saved for each TX/RX queue pair.

It seems fairly straightforward.

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Thanks,
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-05  1:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-26  2:53 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Sharing MSIX irq for tx/rx queue pairs Jason Wang
2014-12-26  2:53 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] virtio-pci: introduce channels Jason Wang
2014-12-26  2:53 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] virtio: let vp_find_vqs accept channel setting paramters Jason Wang
2014-12-26  2:53 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] virtio-net: using single MSIX irq for each TX/RX queue pair Jason Wang
2014-12-26 10:17   ` Jason Wang
2014-12-28  7:52 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Sharing MSIX irq for tx/rx queue pairs Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-01-04  8:38   ` Jason Wang
2015-01-04 11:36     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-01-05  3:09       ` Jason Wang
2015-01-05  1:39 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2015-01-05  5:10   ` Jason Wang

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