Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:18:01PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> >>> But I don't understand how aio will make implementing it easier - >>> or are you merely saying that it will make it worthwhile? >>> >>> >> If you have aio, the the NIC and the guest proceed in parallel. If the >> guest is faster (likely), then when it sends the next packet it will see >> that interrupts are disabled and not notify again. Once aio complete we >> can recheck the queue; if it's empty we reenable notifications. If >> there's still stuff in it we submit it with notifications disabled. >> > > So you are saying that with aio we won't need this optimization at all? > I guess it's late in the day, and my mind is fuzzy... > No, I'm saying with aio the optimization becomes worthwhile. But I joined late in the thread so we may be talking about different things. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
