From 7b21e34fd1c272e3a8c3846168f2f6287a4cd72b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:44:42 +1030 Subject: virtio: harsher barriers for rpmsg. We were cheating with our barriers; using the smp ones rather than the real device ones. That was fine, until rpmsg came along, which is used to talk to a real device (a non-SMP CPU). Unfortunately, just putting back the real barriers (reverting d57ed95d) causes a performance regression on virtio-pci. In particular, Amos reports netbench's TCP_RR over virtio_net CPU utilization increased up to 35% while throughput went down by up to 14%. By comparison, this branch is in the noise. Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/11/22 Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/lguest') diff --git a/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c b/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c index 595d7319701..6a1d6447b86 100644 --- a/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c +++ b/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c @@ -292,10 +292,12 @@ static struct virtqueue *lg_find_vq(struct virtio_device *vdev, /* * OK, tell virtio_ring.c to set up a virtqueue now we know its size - * and we've got a pointer to its pages. + * and we've got a pointer to its pages. Note that we set weak_barriers + * to 'true': the host just a(nother) SMP CPU, so we only need inter-cpu + * barriers. */ - vq = vring_new_virtqueue(lvq->config.num, LGUEST_VRING_ALIGN, - vdev, lvq->pages, lg_notify, callback, name); + vq = vring_new_virtqueue(lvq->config.num, LGUEST_VRING_ALIGN, vdev, + true, lvq->pages, lg_notify, callback, name); if (!vq) { err = -ENOMEM; goto unmap; -- cgit v1.2.3