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From: | Luigi Rizzo |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] implement moderation registers for e1000 |
Date: | Fri, 8 Feb 2013 02:20:43 -0800 |
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 03:23:41PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/papers/20130206-qemu.pdf is 404.
> The following patch implements interrupt moderation registers
> for the e1000 adapter. These feature is normally used by OS
> drivers, and their implementation improves performance significantly,
> especially on the transmit path.
> The feature can be disabled through a command line option.
> We have seen only benefits in throughput, while latency slightly
> increases (that is an inherent feature of interrupt moderation)
> because very short delays cannot be emulated precisely.
>
> For those curious on performance, there is a set of measurements
> (of this and other changes that we will post separately) at
>
> http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/research.html#qemu
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