On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 09:34:57PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 21:26 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 06:05:53PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > We can deliver certain interrupts, notably MSIX, > > > from atomic context. > > > Here's an untested patch to do this (compiled only). > > > > > > Changes from v2: > > > Don't inject broadcast interrupts directly > > > Changes from v1: > > > Tried to address comments from v1, except unifying > > > with kvm_set_irq: passing flags to it looks too ugly. > > > Added a comment. > > > > > > Jan, you said you can test this? > > > > I have tested this with some networking workloads > > and this patchset seems to work fine. > > My setup isn't a good fit for benchmarking device > > assignment though. > > Alex, could you pls verifyu that this solves the > > latency issue that you sometimes observe? > > With this patchset device assignment latency should be > > as fast as vfio. > > Yep, that seems to cover the gap. My environment is too noisy to > declare an absolute winner, but pci-assign and vfio-pci are now very, > very similar under netperf TCP_RR with these patches. Thanks, > > Alex Thanks very much for the report. Gleb, Marcelo, ACK? Also please add Tested-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> -- MST -- 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
