Jason Wang <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi all:
>
> This series try to share MSIX irq for each tx/rx queue pair. This is
> done through:
>
> - introducing virtio pci channel which are group of virtqueues that
> sharing a single MSIX irq (Patch 1)
> - expose channel setting to virtio core api (Patch 2)
> - try to use channel setting in virtio-net (Patch 3)
Hi Jason,
Is "channel" a term you created yourself, or something I was
just unaware of? irq_group would seem more obvious, if the former.
> For the transport that does not support channel, channel paramters
> were simply ignored. For devices that does not use channel, it can
> simply pass NULL or zero to virito core.
>
> With the patch, 1 MSIX irq were saved for each TX/RX queue pair.
It seems fairly straightforward.
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Thanks,
Rusty.
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