Re: [Qemu-devel] [question] virtio-blk performance degradationhappenedwith virito-serial

2014-09-11 Thread Amit Shah
On (Sun) 07 Sep 2014 [17:46:26], Zhang Haoyu wrote: Hi, Paolo, Amit, any ideas? I'll check this, thanks for testing with Linux guests. Amit

Re: [Qemu-devel] [question] virtio-blk performance degradationhappenedwith virito-serial

2014-09-07 Thread Zhang Haoyu
Hi, Paolo, Amit, any ideas? Thanks, Zhang Haoyu On 2014-9-4 15:56, Zhang Haoyu wrote: If virtio-blk and virtio-serial share an IRQ, the guest operating system has to check each virtqueue for activity. Maybe there is some inefficiency doing that. AFAIK virtio-serial registers 64 virtqueues

Re: [Qemu-devel] [question] virtio-blk performance degradationhappenedwith virito-serial

2014-09-04 Thread Zhang Haoyu
If virtio-blk and virtio-serial share an IRQ, the guest operating system has to check each virtqueue for activity. Maybe there is some inefficiency doing that. AFAIK virtio-serial registers 64 virtqueues (on 31 ports + console) even if everything is unused. That could be the