On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 14:12 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:

>  My worry with this change is that increases cpu utilization even more 
> than it increases bandwidth, so that our bits/cycle measure decreases.  

Yep, agreed it's important to watch out for this.

> The descriptors (and perhaps data) are likely on the same cache as the 
> vcpu, and moving the transmit to the iothread will cause them to move to 
> the iothread's cache.

We flush from the I/O thread right now.

We only ever flush from the vcpu thread when the ring fills up, which
rarely happens from what I've observed.

Cheers,
Mark.

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