Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Sharing MSIX irq for tx/rx queue pairs | Date | Mon, 05 Jan 2015 12:09:36 +1030 |
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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.
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