On 02/12/2013 09:06 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > This series implements virtio-scsi queue steering, which gives > performance improvements of up to 50% (measured both with QEMU and > tcm_vhost backends). The patches build on top of the new virtio APIs > at http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.virtualization/18431; > the new API simplifies the locking of the virtio-scsi driver nicely, > thus it makes sense to require them as a prerequisite. > > Changes from the previous post, which can be found at > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.virtualization/17869: > > - patches 1 and 2 ("virtio: add functions for piecewise addition of > buffers", "virtio-scsi: use functions for piecewise composition of > buffers") split into their own series > > - new cleanup patch "virtio-scsi: push vq lock/unlock into virtscsi_vq_done" > > - reorganized code to move ACCESS_ONCE in a clearer place > > - included Wanlong Gao's CPU hotplug patches > > Ok for 3.9? It would probably be easier to get it in via Rusty's tree > because of the prerequisites. James, can I get your Acked-by? I can't apply this series on top of Rusty's virtio-next, I missed something or needed rebase them ? Thanks, Wanlong Gao > > Paolo > > Paolo Bonzini (4): > virtio-scsi: redo allocation of target data > virtio-scsi: pass struct virtio_scsi to virtqueue completion function > virtio-scsi: push vq lock/unlock into virtscsi_vq_done > virtio-scsi: introduce multiqueue support > > Wanlong Gao (1): > virtio-scsi: reset virtqueue affinity when doing cpu hotplug > > drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 360 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- > 1 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-) > > -- 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
