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13 years ago

virtio: harsher barriers for rpmsg. · 7b21e34f

Rusty Russell authored 13 years ago

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 <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

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virtio: harsher barriers for rpmsg.

Rusty Russell authored 13 years ago

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 <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>