On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 05:35:55PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2020 11:29:21 +0100 > Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Multi-queue devices achieve the best performance when each vCPU has a > > dedicated queue. This ensures that virtqueue used notifications are > > handled on the same vCPU that submitted virtqueue buffers. When another > > vCPU handles the the notification an IPI will be necessary to wake the > > submission vCPU and this incurs a performance overhead. > > > > Provide a helper function that virtio-pci devices will use in later > > patches to automatically select the optimal number of queues. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> > > --- > > hw/virtio/virtio-pci.h | 9 +++++++++ > > hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c | 7 +++++++ > > 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) > > That looks like a good idea, since the policy can be easily tweaked in > one place later. > > For ccw, I don't see a good way to arrive at an optimal number of > queues. Is there something we should do for mmio? If yes, should this > be a callback in VirtioBusClass?
Stefan do you plan to address this?