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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Sharing MSIX irq for tx/rx queue pairs

On 12/28/2014 03:52 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 10:53:42AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> 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)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Please review.
> How does this sharing affect performance?
>

Patch 3 only checks more_used() for tx ring which in fact reduces the
effect of event index and may introduce more tx interrupts. After fixing
this issue, tested with 1 vcpu and 1 queue. No obvious changes in
performance were noticed.

Thanks



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