On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 01:18:54PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Check shared ring status when stuffing a request. If there are requests > > That means you're bouncing cache lines all the time. Probably not a big > issue on single socket but could be on larger systems.
If the backend is running on a core that doesn't share caches with the guest queue then you've got bigger problems. Right this is unavoidable for guests with many CPUs but that should go away once we support multiqueue in virtio-net. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
