On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Asias He <[email protected]> wrote: > This patch fixes virtio-net randmom stall > > host $ scp guest:/root/big.guest . > big.guest 42% 440MB 67.7KB/s - stalled - > > Signed-off-by: Asias He <[email protected]> > --- > tools/kvm/virtio-net.c | 9 +++++++-- > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/tools/kvm/virtio-net.c b/tools/kvm/virtio-net.c > index 58b3de4..efe06cb 100644 > --- a/tools/kvm/virtio-net.c > +++ b/tools/kvm/virtio-net.c > @@ -77,9 +77,12 @@ static void virtio_net_rx_callback(struct kvm *self, void > *param) > head = virt_queue__get_iov(vq, iov, &out, &in, self); > len = readv(net_device.tap_fd, iov, in); > virt_queue__set_used_elem(vq, head, len); > - } > > - kvm__irq_line(self, VIRTIO_NET_IRQ, 1); > + /* We should interrupt guest right now, otherwise latency is > huge. */ > + mutex_lock(&net_device.mutex); > + kvm__irq_line(self, VIRTIO_NET_IRQ, 1); > + mutex_unlock(&net_device.mutex); > + } > } > > static void virtio_net_tx_callback(struct kvm *self, void *param)
Please make that IRQ latency fix a separate patch. Don't we need to do it for TX path as well, btw? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
