Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Jan 2015 13:10:14 +0800 | From | Jason Wang <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Sharing MSIX irq for tx/rx queue pairs |
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On 01/05/2015 09:39 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: > 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?
By myself and probably not accurate. > irq_group would seem more obvious, if the former. >
Yes, will use this in next version. Thanks. >> 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. > --
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