Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] virtio-mmio: add MSI interrupt feature support

From: Liu, Jing2
Date: Mon Feb 10 2020 - 22:35:56 EST



On 2/11/2020 11:17 AM, Jason Wang wrote:

On 2020/2/10 äå5:05, Zha Bin wrote:
From: Liu Jiang<gerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Userspace VMMs (e.g. Qemu microvm, Firecracker) take advantage of using
virtio over mmio devices as a lightweight machine model for modern
cloud. The standard virtio over MMIO transport layer only supports one
legacy interrupt, which is much heavier than virtio over PCI transport
layer using MSI. Legacy interrupt has long work path and causes specific
VMExits in following cases, which would considerably slow down the
performance:

1) read interrupt status register
2) update interrupt status register
3) write IOAPIC EOI register

We proposed to add MSI support for virtio over MMIO via new feature
bit VIRTIO_F_MMIO_MSI[1] which increases the interrupt performance.

With the VIRTIO_F_MMIO_MSI feature bit supported, the virtio-mmio MSI
uses msi_sharing[1] to indicate the event and vector mapping.
Bit 1 is 0: device uses non-sharing and fixed vector per event mapping.
Bit 1 is 1: device uses sharing mode and dynamic mapping.


I believe dynamic mapping should cover the case of fixed vector?

Actually this bit *aims* for msi sharing or msi non-sharing.

It means, when msi sharing bit is 1, device doesn't want vector per queue

(it wants msi vector sharing as name) and doesn't want a high interrupt rate.

So driver turns to !per_vq_vectors and has to do dynamical mapping.

So they are opposite not superset.

Thanks!

Jing


Thanks



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