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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2012-01-12 15:44:42 +1030 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2012-01-12 15:44:42 +1030 |
| commit | 7b21e34fd1c272e3a8c3846168f2f6287a4cd72b (patch) | |
| tree | 0f94c9f834f5b7cd8ba87168df892ed17b09cb8f /drivers/lguest | |
| parent | e343a895a9f342f239c5e3c5ffc6c0b1707e6244 (diff) | |
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virtio: harsher barriers for rpmsg.
We were cheating with our barriers; using the smp ones rather than the
real device ones. That was fine, until rpmsg came along, which is
used to talk to a real device (a non-SMP CPU).
Unfortunately, just putting back the real barriers (reverting
d57ed95d) causes a performance regression on virtio-pci. In
particular, Amos reports netbench's TCP_RR over virtio_net CPU
utilization increased up to 35% while throughput went down by up to
14%.
By comparison, this branch is in the noise.
Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/11/22
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/lguest')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c b/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c index 595d73197016..6a1d6447b864 100644 --- a/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c +++ b/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c @@ -292,10 +292,12 @@ static struct virtqueue *lg_find_vq(struct virtio_device *vdev, /* * OK, tell virtio_ring.c to set up a virtqueue now we know its size - * and we've got a pointer to its pages. + * and we've got a pointer to its pages. Note that we set weak_barriers + * to 'true': the host just a(nother) SMP CPU, so we only need inter-cpu + * barriers. */ - vq = vring_new_virtqueue(lvq->config.num, LGUEST_VRING_ALIGN, - vdev, lvq->pages, lg_notify, callback, name); + vq = vring_new_virtqueue(lvq->config.num, LGUEST_VRING_ALIGN, vdev, + true, lvq->pages, lg_notify, callback, name); if (!vq) { err = -ENOMEM; goto unmap; |
