[Qemu-devel] Re: Re: [RFC][PATCH] performance improvement for windows guests, running on top of virtio block device

2010-01-11 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 08:37:10AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 01/11/2010 08:29 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/11/2010 03:49 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: So instead of disabling notify while requests are active we might want to only disable it while we are inside virtio_blk_handle_output.

[Qemu-devel] Re: Re: [RFC][PATCH] performance improvement for windows guests, running on top of virtio block device

2010-01-11 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 09:13:23AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 01/11/2010 08:46 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/11/2010 04:37 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: That has the downside of bouncing a cache line on unrelated exits. The read and write sides of the ring are widely separated in physical