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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] return available ioeventfds count in kvm_ha
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Jan Kiszka |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] return available ioeventfds count in kvm_has_many_ioeventfds() |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:24:40 +0100 |
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On 2012-03-13 13:00, Amos Kong wrote:
> On 13/03/12 19:50, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Please tag uq/master patches with "PATCH uq/master".
>>
>> On 2012-03-13 11:42, Amos Kong wrote:
>>> Older kernels have a 6 device limit on the KVM io bus.
>>> This patch makes kvm_has_many_ioeventfds() return available
>>> ioeventfd count. ioeventfd will be disabled if there is
>>> no 7 available ioeventfds.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Amos Kong<address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>> hw/virtio-pci.c | 2 +-
>>> kvm-all.c | 9 +++------
>>> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/hw/virtio-pci.c b/hw/virtio-pci.c
>>> index a0fb7c1..d63f303 100644
>>> --- a/hw/virtio-pci.c
>>> +++ b/hw/virtio-pci.c
>>> @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ void virtio_init_pci(VirtIOPCIProxy *proxy,
>>> VirtIODevice *vdev)
>>> pci_register_bar(&proxy->pci_dev, 0, PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_SPACE_IO,
>>> &proxy->bar);
>>>
>>> - if (!kvm_has_many_ioeventfds()) {
>>> + if (kvm_has_many_ioeventfds() != 7) {
>>> proxy->flags&= ~VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD;
>>> }
>>>
>>> diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c
>>> index 3c6b4f0..d12694b 100644
>>> --- a/kvm-all.c
>>> +++ b/kvm-all.c
>>> @@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ struct KVMState
>>> int pit_in_kernel;
>>> int pit_state2;
>>> int xsave, xcrs;
>>> - int many_ioeventfds;
>>> int irqchip_inject_ioctl;
>>> #ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING
>>> struct kvm_irq_routing *irq_routes;
>>> @@ -510,8 +509,8 @@ static int kvm_check_many_ioeventfds(void)
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> - /* Decide whether many devices are supported or not */
>>> - ret = i == ARRAY_SIZE(ioeventfds);
>>> + /* If i equals to 7, many devices are supported */
>>> + ret = i;
>>>
>>> while (i--> 0) {
>>> kvm_set_ioeventfd_pio_word(ioeventfds[i], 0, i, false);
>>> @@ -1078,8 +1077,6 @@ int kvm_init(void)
>>> kvm_state = s;
>>> memory_listener_register(&kvm_memory_listener, NULL);
>>>
>>> - s->many_ioeventfds = kvm_check_many_ioeventfds();
>>> -
>>> cpu_interrupt_handler = kvm_handle_interrupt;
>>>
>>> return 0;
>>> @@ -1407,7 +1404,7 @@ int kvm_has_many_ioeventfds(void)
>>> if (!kvm_enabled()) {
>>> return 0;
>>> }
>>> - return kvm_state->many_ioeventfds;
>>> + return kvm_check_many_ioeventfds();
>>
>> And why are you dropping the caching of the kvm_check_many_ioeventfds()
>> return value? Is kvm_has_many_ioeventfds not used outside init scopes?
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> In the past, kvm_state->many_ioeventfds is only updated once at the
> beginning,
And the additional use case of patch 2 is not hot path either, right?
> I want to use kvm_check_many_ioeventfds() to check if available
> ioeventfd exists
> before starting ioeventfd each time.
OK, but than kvm_has_many_ioeventfds is not the right name for this
function anymore. Call it "kvm_get_available_ioventfds" or so, but not
in a away that implies a boolean return value.
Jan
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] virtio-pci: fix abort when fail to allocate ioeventfd, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] virtio-pci: fix abort when fail to allocate ioeventfd, Amos Kong, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] virtio-pci: fix abort when fail to allocate ioeventfd, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] virtio-pci: fix abort when fail to allocate ioeventfd, Amos Kong, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] virtio-pci: fix abort when fail to allocate ioeventfd, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] virtio-pci: fix abort when fail to allocate ioeventfd, Amos Kong, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] virtio-pci: fix abort when fail to allocate ioeventfd, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/03/14
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] virtio-pci: fix abort when fail to allocate ioeventfd, Avi Kivity, 2012/03/14