On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 09:48:48AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 08:12:21PM +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote: > > > > But if it's not too late, I second for a OUT_OF_ORDER feature. > > > > Starting from in order can have much simpler code in driver. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > It's tricky to change the flag polarity because of compatibility > > > with legacy interfaces. Why is this such a big deal? > > > > > > Let's teach drivers about IN_ORDER, then if devices > > > are in order it will get enabled by default. > > > > Yeah, make sense. > > > > Besides, I have done some further profiling and debugging > > both in kernel driver and DPDK vhost. Previously I was mislead > > by a bug in vhost code. I will send a patch to fix that bug. > > With that bug fixed, the performance of packed ring in the > > test between kernel driver and DPDK vhost is better now. > > OK, if we get a performance gain on the virtio side, we can finally > upstream it. If you see that please re-post ASAP so we can > put it in the next kernel release. Got it, I will re-post ASAP. Thanks! > > -- > MST _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
