From a32a8813d0173163ba44d8f9556e0d89fdc4fb46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:27:02 -0600 Subject: 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 --- drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c') diff --git a/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c b/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c index 54d66f0..f252b71 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. */ -- cgit v1.1