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| author | Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> | 2011-07-27 13:00:48 (GMT) |
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| committer | Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> | 2011-09-25 16:17:59 (GMT) |
| commit | 743eeb0b01d2fbf4154bf87bff1ebb6fb18aeb7a (patch) | |
| tree | 5392464930f7e77131d65f32ba96ce4665307629 /arch/x86/kvm/irq.h | |
| parent | 0d460ffc0956d2dbe12ca9f5f6aa0f8701ea9d73 (diff) | |
| download | linux-743eeb0b01d2fbf4154bf87bff1ebb6fb18aeb7a.tar.xz | |
KVM: Intelligent device lookup on I/O bus
Currently the method of dealing with an IO operation on a bus (PIO/MMIO)
is to call the read or write callback for each device registered
on the bus until we find a device which handles it.
Since the number of devices on a bus can be significant due to ioeventfds
and coalesced MMIO zones, this leads to a lot of overhead on each IO
operation.
Instead of registering devices, we now register ranges which points to
a device. Lookup is done using an efficient bsearch instead of a linear
search.
Performance test was conducted by comparing exit count per second with
200 ioeventfds created on one byte and the guest is trying to access a
different byte continuously (triggering usermode exits).
Before the patch the guest has achieved 259k exits per second, after the
patch the guest does 274k exits per second.
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/irq.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/irq.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h b/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h index 53e2d08..2086f2b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h @@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ struct kvm_pic { struct kvm *kvm; struct kvm_kpic_state pics[2]; /* 0 is master pic, 1 is slave pic */ int output; /* intr from master PIC */ - struct kvm_io_device dev; + struct kvm_io_device dev_master; + struct kvm_io_device dev_slave; + struct kvm_io_device dev_eclr; void (*ack_notifier)(void *opaque, int irq); unsigned long irq_states[16]; }; |