From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: "Pincus, Josh" <Josh.Pincus@windriver.com>
Cc: "virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org"
<virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org>,
"zhabin@linux.alibaba.com" <zhabin@linux.alibaba.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] virtio mmio specification enhancement
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:19:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo2fn1lf.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ft973d0b.fsf@linaro.org>
Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:
> Pincus, Josh <Josh.Pincus@windriver.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> We were looking into a similar enhancement for the Virt I/O MMIO transport and came across this project.
>>
>> This enhancement would be perfect for us.
>
> So there is certainly an interest in optimising MMIO based virtio and
> the current read/ack cycle adds additional round trip time for any trap
> and emulate hypervisor. However I think there is some resistance to
> making MMIO a re-implementation of what PCI already gives us for "free".
<snip>
>
> - Quantifying the memory foot-print difference between PCI/MMIO
>
> PCI gives a lot for free including a discovery and IRQ model already
> designed to handle MSI/MSI-X. There is a claim that this brings in a
> lot of bloat but I think there was some debate around the numbers.
> My rough initial experiment with a PCI and non-PCI build with
> otherwise identical VIRTIO configs results in the following:
>
> 16:40:15 c.282% [alex@zen:~/l/l/builds] review/rpmb|… + ls -l arm64/vmlinux arm64.nopci/vmlinux
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex 83914728 Jul 31 16:39 arm64.nopci/vmlinux*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex 86368080 Jul 31 16:33 arm64/vmlinux*
>
> which certainly implies there could be a fair amount of headroom for
> an MMIO version to implement some features. However I don't know if
> it's fully apples to apples as there maybe unneeded PCI bloat that a
> virtio-only kernel doesn't need.
Just following up after cutting the Xgene and ThunderX PCI bloat from
the kernel the margin is a little smaller:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex 83914728 Jul 31 16:39 arm64.nopci/vmlinux*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex 85639808 Aug 3 17:12 arm64/vmlinux*
--
Alex Bennée
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-03 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-30 20:15 [PATCH v2 0/5] virtio mmio specification enhancement Pincus, Josh
2020-07-31 10:13 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-07-31 15:44 ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-03 16:19 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2020-08-03 23:31 ` Pincus, Josh
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2020-02-10 9:05 Zha Bin
2020-02-10 11:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-11 16:05 ` Chao Peng
2020-02-11 10:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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