This is a rewrite of the virtio-ioeventfd patchset to work at the virtio-pci.c level instead of virtio.c. This results in better integration with the host/guest notifier code and makes the code simpler (no more state machine). Virtqueue notify is currently handled synchronously in userspace virtio. This prevents the vcpu from executing guest code while hardware emulation code handles the notify. On systems that support KVM, the ioeventfd mechanism can be used to make virtqueue notify a lightweight exit by deferring hardware emulation to the iothread and allowing the VM to continue execution. This model is similar to how vhost receives virtqueue notifies. The result of this change is improved performance for userspace virtio devices. Virtio-blk throughput increases especially for multithreaded scenarios and virtio-net transmit throughput increases substantially. Now that this code is in virtio-pci.c it is possible to explicitly enable devices for which virtio-ioeventfd should be used. Only virtio-blk and virtio-net are enabled at this time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
