On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 03:16:44PM +0800, Dongli Zhang wrote: > > > On 07/05/2018 12:12 PM, Probir Roy wrote: > >> Does 'per CPU basis' indicates irq per cpu, or irq per device queue? > > > > IRQ per CPU core, meaning that IRQ will be raised at and served by > > that CPU. Does IRQ per queue mean the same thing? > > > > About 'IRQ per queue', the device may create multiple queue in the OS driver. > The number of queues are always proportional to the number of CPU core/thread > (although this is also always configurable by OS driver). > > Usually the per-queue irq/vector is bound to each CPU. As the number of > queue/irq is always the same as the number of CPU, it is sort of 'per CPU > basis', as each CPU will be serving irq for its own queue.
Some more background on devices with multiple irqs: It's the guest kernel that configures interrupt routing on modern systems where the interrupt controller hardware supports that. With a PCI device you would need multiple Message-Signalled Interrupt vectors. Then the guest driver can set the irq affinity so that the vcpu of your choice receives each of these interrupts. Interrupts are a limited resource, even when using Message-Signalled Interrupts, so you'll have to choose a maximum number of interrupts that the device supports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Signaled_Interrupts#MSI-X Stefan
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