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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2009-06-13 04:27:02 (GMT) |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2009-06-12 12:57:03 (GMT) |
| commit | a32a8813d0173163ba44d8f9556e0d89fdc4fb46 (patch) | |
| tree | fddb6742338047d0219e8c2536cd39b04e643b16 /arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S | |
| parent | abd41f037e1a64543000ed73b42f616d04d92700 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a32a8813d0173163ba44d8f9556e0d89fdc4fb46.tar.xz | |
lguest: improve interrupt handling, speed up stream networking
lguest never checked for pending interrupts when enabling interrupts, and
things still worked. However, it makes a significant difference to TCP
performance, so it's time we fixed it by introducing a pending_irq flag
and checking it on irq_restore and irq_enable.
These two routines are now too big to patch into the 8/10 bytes
patch space, so we drop that code.
Note: The high latency on interrupt delivery had a very curious
effect: once everything else was optimized, networking without GSO was
faster than networking with GSO, since more interrupts were sent and
hence a greater chance of one getting through to the Guest!
Note2: (Almost) Closing the same loophole for iret doesn't have any
measurable effect, so I'm leaving that patch for the moment.
Before:
1GB tcpblast Guest->Host: 30.7 seconds
1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO): 76.0 seconds
After:
1GB tcpblast Guest->Host: 6.8 seconds
1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO): 27.8 seconds
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S b/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S index f795419..3e0c554 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S +++ b/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S @@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ ENTRY(lguest_entry) .globl lgstart_##name; .globl lgend_##name LGUEST_PATCH(cli, movl $0, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled) -LGUEST_PATCH(sti, movl $X86_EFLAGS_IF, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled) -LGUEST_PATCH(popf, movl %eax, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled) LGUEST_PATCH(pushf, movl lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled, %eax) /*:*/ |