From 7b21e34fd1c272e3a8c3846168f2f6287a4cd72b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:44:42 +1030 Subject: 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 --- tools/virtio/linux/virtio.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'tools/virtio/linux') diff --git a/tools/virtio/linux/virtio.h b/tools/virtio/linux/virtio.h index 669bcdd45805..953db2abf6b9 100644 --- a/tools/virtio/linux/virtio.h +++ b/tools/virtio/linux/virtio.h @@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ void *virtqueue_detach_unused_buf(struct virtqueue *vq); struct virtqueue *vring_new_virtqueue(unsigned int num, unsigned int vring_align, struct virtio_device *vdev, + bool weak_barriers, void *pages, void (*notify)(struct virtqueue *vq), void (*callback)(struct virtqueue *vq), -- cgit v1.2.3