From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
jasowang@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] virtio: introduce an API to set affinity for a virtqueue
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:02:04 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vcojbbf.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346154857-12487-3-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
>
> Sometimes, virtio device need to configure irq affinity hint to maximize the
> performance. Instead of just exposing the irq of a virtqueue, this patch
> introduce an API to set the affinity for a virtqueue.
>
> The api is best-effort, the affinity hint may not be set as expected due to
> platform support, irq sharing or irq type. Currently, only pci method were
> implemented and we set the affinity according to:
>
> - if device uses INTX, we just ignore the request
> - if device has per vq vector, we force the affinity hint
> - if the virtqueues share MSI, make the affinity OR over all affinities
> requested
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Applied, thanks.
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cheers,
Rusty.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] virtio: introduce an API to set affinity for a virtqueue
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:02:04 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vcojbbf.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346154857-12487-3-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
>
> Sometimes, virtio device need to configure irq affinity hint to maximize the
> performance. Instead of just exposing the irq of a virtqueue, this patch
> introduce an API to set the affinity for a virtqueue.
>
> The api is best-effort, the affinity hint may not be set as expected due to
> platform support, irq sharing or irq type. Currently, only pci method were
> implemented and we set the affinity according to:
>
> - if device uses INTX, we just ignore the request
> - if device has per vq vector, we force the affinity hint
> - if the virtqueues share MSI, make the affinity OR over all affinities
> requested
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Applied, thanks.
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-06 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-28 11:54 [PATCH 0/5] Multiqueue virtio-scsi Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 11:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 11:54 ` [PATCH 1/5] virtio-ring: move queue_index to vring_virtqueue Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 11:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-29 7:54 ` Jason Wang
2012-08-29 7:54 ` Jason Wang
2012-09-05 23:32 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-05 23:32 ` Rusty Russell
2012-08-28 11:54 ` [PATCH 2/5] virtio: introduce an API to set affinity for a virtqueue Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 11:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-05 23:32 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2012-09-05 23:32 ` Rusty Russell
2012-08-28 11:54 ` [PATCH 3/5] virtio-scsi: allocate target pointers in a separate memory block Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 11:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 14:07 ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-28 14:07 ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-28 14:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 14:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 11:54 ` [PATCH 4/5] virtio-scsi: pass struct virtio_scsi to virtqueue completion function Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 11:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 11:54 ` [PATCH 5/5] virtio-scsi: introduce multiqueue support Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 11:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 2:21 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-09-04 2:21 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-09-04 6:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 6:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 8:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 8:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 10:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 10:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 11:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 11:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 11:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 11:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 13:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 13:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 13:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 13:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 14:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 14:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 14:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 14:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 20:11 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-09-04 20:11 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-09-05 7:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-05 7:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 12:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 12:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 13:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 13:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 14:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 14:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 14:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 14:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 14:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 14:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 14:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 14:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 14:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 14:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 15:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 15:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30 7:13 ` [PATCH 0/5] Multiqueue virtio-scsi Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-08-30 7:13 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-08-30 14:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30 14:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30 15:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-30 15:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
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