With ioeventfd:
[root@qemu-img-64 storage]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/storage/testx bs=8k count=131072 oflag=direct
131072+0 records in
131072+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 26.767 s, 40.1 MB/s
Without:
[root@qemu-img-64 storage]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/storage/testx bs=8k count=131072 oflag=direct
131072+0 records in
131072+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 65.3361 s, 16.4 MB/s
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>
.revision = VIRTIO_PCI_ABI_VERSION,
.class_id = 0x2,
.qdev.props = (Property[]) {
+ DEFINE_PROP_BIT("ioeventfd", VirtIOPCIProxy, flags,
+ VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT, true),
DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("vectors", VirtIOPCIProxy, nvectors, 2),
DEFINE_VIRTIO_COMMON_FEATURES(VirtIOPCIProxy, host_features),
DEFINE_PROP_STRING("mount_tag", VirtIOPCIProxy, fsconf.tag),
/* Flags track per-device state like workarounds for quirks in older guests. */
#define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_BUS_MASTER_BUG (1 << 0)
-/* Performance improves when virtqueue kick processing is decoupled from the
- * vcpu thread using ioeventfd for some devices. */
-#define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT 1
-#define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD (1 << VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT)
-
/* QEMU doesn't strictly need write barriers since everything runs in
* lock-step. We'll leave the calls to wmb() in though to make it obvious for
* KVM or if kqemu gets SMP support.
#include "virtio-net.h"
#include "virtio-serial.h"
+/* Performance improves when virtqueue kick processing is decoupled from the
+ * vcpu thread using ioeventfd for some devices. */
+#define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT 1
+#define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD (1 << VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT)
+
typedef struct {
PCIDevice pci_dev;
VirtIODevice *vdev;