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* [RFC PATCH 0/5] vfio: ioeventfd support
@ 2018-02-07  0:26 ` Alex Williamson
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From: Alex Williamson @ 2018-02-07  0:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel; +Cc: alex.williamson, kvm

For the matching kernel patch, see:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/6/866

This series enables ioeventfd support and makes use of a proposed vfio
kernel ioeventfd interface for accelerating high frequency writes
through to the device.  In the specific case addressed, the writes are
to a range of MMIO space virtualized in QEMU for NVIDIA GeForce
support, but which also hosts a register which is used to allow the
MSI interrupt for the device to re-trigger.  Applications which
generate a very high interrupt rate on the GPU can see noticeable
overhead as a result of this trap through QEMU.  We added an option
for users to disable these quirks entirely for non-Geforce cards[1]
for optimal performance, but for GeForce users and users that can't
tweak their VM config, this gets us to within 95% of that performance
for an interrupt intensive micro-benchmark (from 83%).  I'd be
interested in more typical benchmark results to understand if there's
an improvement there as well.  Thanks,

Alex

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-01/msg06878.html

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Alex Williamson (5):
      vfio/quirks: Add common quirk alloc helper
      vfio/quirks: Add generic support for ioveventfds
      vfio/quirks: Automatic ioeventfd enabling for NVIDIA BAR0 quirks
      vfio: Update linux header
      vfio/quirks: Enable ioeventfd quirks to be handled by vfio directly


 hw/vfio/pci-quirks.c       |  184 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 hw/vfio/pci.h              |   13 +++
 linux-headers/linux/vfio.h |   24 ++++++
 3 files changed, 192 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

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2018-02-07  0:26 [RFC PATCH 0/5] vfio: ioeventfd support Alex Williamson
2018-02-07  0:26 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2018-02-07  0:26 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] vfio/quirks: Add common quirk alloc helper Alex Williamson
2018-02-07  0:26   ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2018-02-08 11:10   ` Auger Eric
2018-02-08 11:10     ` [Qemu-devel] " Auger Eric
2018-02-08 18:28     ` Alex Williamson
2018-02-08 18:28       ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2018-02-07  0:26 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] vfio/quirks: Add generic support for ioveventfds Alex Williamson
2018-02-07  0:26   ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2018-02-08 11:11   ` Auger Eric
2018-02-08 11:11     ` [Qemu-devel] " Auger Eric
2018-02-08 18:33     ` Alex Williamson
2018-02-08 18:33       ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2018-02-08 20:37       ` Auger Eric
2018-02-07  0:26 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] vfio/quirks: Automatic ioeventfd enabling for NVIDIA BAR0 quirks Alex Williamson
2018-02-07  0:26   ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2018-02-08 11:10   ` Auger Eric
2018-02-08 11:10     ` [Qemu-devel] " Auger Eric
2018-02-08 11:33     ` Auger Eric
2018-02-08 18:24     ` Alex Williamson
2018-02-08 18:24       ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2018-02-08 20:52       ` Auger Eric
2018-02-08 20:52         ` [Qemu-devel] " Auger Eric
2018-02-07  0:26 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] vfio: Update linux header Alex Williamson
2018-02-07  0:26   ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2018-02-07  0:26 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] vfio/quirks: Enable ioeventfd quirks to be handled by vfio directly Alex Williamson
2018-02-07  0:26   ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2018-02-08 11:42   ` Auger Eric
2018-02-08 11:42     ` [Qemu-devel] " Auger Eric
2018-02-08 18:41     ` Alex Williamson
2018-02-08 18:41       ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2018-02-09  7:11   ` Peter Xu
2018-02-09 22:09     ` Alex Williamson
2018-02-11  2:38       ` Peter Xu

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