On 08/13/2012 01:38 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 01:31:36PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 08/13/2012 01:24 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: >> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 01:21:33PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: >> >> On 08/13/2012 01:16 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 01:12:46PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:36:41PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: >> >> >> > On 08/13/2012 12:16 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: >> >> >> > > Here is a quick prototype of what we discussed yesterday. This one >> >> >> > > caches only MSI interrupts for now. The obvious problem is that not >> >> >> > > all interrupts (namely IPIs and MSIs using KVM_CAP_SIGNAL_MSI) use >> >> >> > > irq >> >> >> > > routing table, so they cannot be cached. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > We can have a small rcu-managed hash table to look those up. >> >> >> >> >> >> Yes but how small? We probably need at least one entry >> >> >> per vcpu, no? >> >> >> >> >> > One entry? We will spend more time managing it than injecting interrupts >> >> > :) ideally we need entry for each IPI sent and for each potential MSI >> >> > from userspace. What happens when hash table is full? >> >> >> >> Drop the entire cache. >> >> >> > OK. Then it should be big enough to not do it frequently. >> >> Should be sized N * vcpus, where N is several dozen (generous amount of >> non-device vectors, though multicast will break it since it's >> essentially random). > > KVM_MAX_VCPUS is 256 multiply by what? 50? this is 10K already. > You can not allocate that much in a single chunk, right?
Actually this is overkill. Suppose we do an apicid->vcpu translation cache? Then we retain O(1) behaviour, no need for a huge cache. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
