On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 11:35:41PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 04:29:11AM +0200, Halil Pasic wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 09:59:55 -0400 > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:54:24AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 25 2022, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:44:15AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > > >> This patch tries to implement the synchronize_cbs() for ccw. For the > > > > >> vring_interrupt() that is called via virtio_airq_handler(), the > > > > >> synchronization is simply done via the airq_info's lock. For the > > > > >> vring_interrupt() that is called via virtio_ccw_int_handler(), a per > > > > >> device spinlock for irq is introduced ans used in the synchronization > > > > >> method. > > > > >> > > > > >> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> > > > > >> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> > > > > >> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> > > > > >> Cc: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]> > > > > >> Cc: Halil Pasic <[email protected]> > > > > >> Cc: Cornelia Huck <[email protected]> > > > > >> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This is the only one that is giving me pause. Halil, Cornelia, > > > > > should we be concerned about the performance impact here? > > > > > Any chance it can be tested? > > > > > > > > We can have a bunch of devices using the same airq structure, and the > > > > sync cb creates a choke point, same as registering/unregistering. > > > > > > BTW can callbacks for multiple VQs run on multiple CPUs at the moment? > > > > I'm not sure I understand the question. > > > > I do think we can have multiple CPUs that are executing some portion of > > virtio_ccw_int_handler(). So I guess the answer is yes. Connie what do you > > think? > > > > On the other hand we could also end up serializing synchronize_cbs() > > calls for different devices if they happen to use the same airq_info. But > > this probably was not your question > > > I am less concerned about synchronize_cbs being slow and more about > the slowdown in interrupt processing itself. > > > > this patch serializes them on a spinlock. > > > > > > > Those could then pile up on the newly introduced spinlock. > > > > Regards, > > Halil > > Hmm yea ... not good.
Is there any other way to synchronize with all callbacks? > -- > MST _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
