Laurent Vivier wrote: > These two patches allow to batch writes to MMIO. > > When kernel has to send MMIO writes to userspace, it stores them > in memory until it has to pass the hand to userspace for another > reason. This avoids to have too many context switches on operations > that can wait. > >
Did you obtain any measurable performance benefit? > WARNING: this breaks compatibility with old userspace part. > > So it's just an RFC :) -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel