On 02/07/2012 06:19 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Ah. But then ioeventfd has that as well, unless the other end is in >> the kernel too. > > > Yes, that was my point exactly :-) > > ioeventfd/mmio-over-socketpair to adifferent thread is not faster than > a synchronous KVM_RUN + writing to an eventfd in userspace modulo a > couple of cheap syscalls. > > The exception is when the other end is in the kernel and there is > magic optimizations (like there is today with ioeventfd). vhost seems to schedule a workqueue item unconditionally. irqfd does have magic optimizations to avoid an extra schedule. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- 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
