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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-06-12 22:27:02 -0600
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-06-12 22:27:03 +0930
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lguest: improve interrupt handling, speed up stream networking
lguest never checked for pending interrupts when enabling interrupts, and things still worked. However, it makes a significant difference to TCP performance, so it's time we fixed it by introducing a pending_irq flag and checking it on irq_restore and irq_enable. These two routines are now too big to patch into the 8/10 bytes patch space, so we drop that code. Note: The high latency on interrupt delivery had a very curious effect: once everything else was optimized, networking without GSO was faster than networking with GSO, since more interrupts were sent and hence a greater chance of one getting through to the Guest! Note2: (Almost) Closing the same loophole for iret doesn't have any measurable effect, so I'm leaving that patch for the moment. Before: 1GB tcpblast Guest->Host: 30.7 seconds 1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO): 76.0 seconds After: 1GB tcpblast Guest->Host: 6.8 seconds 1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO): 27.8 seconds Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c b/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c
index 54d66f05fefa..f252b71ae79e 100644
--- a/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c
+++ b/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ static void do_hcall(struct lg_cpu *cpu, struct hcall_args *args)
/* This call does nothing, except by breaking out of the Guest
* it makes us process all the asynchronous hypercalls. */
break;
+ case LHCALL_SEND_INTERRUPTS:
+ /* This call does nothing too, but by breaking out of the Guest
+ * it makes us process any pending interrupts. */
+ break;
case LHCALL_LGUEST_INIT:
/* You can't get here unless you're already initialized. Don't
* do that. */