Hi Jan,
As discussed in [1], I think it would good to revive this patch.
AFAICT, this patch was dropped because the performance was thought to be
minimal. However, I think it would be a better way to resolve the
problem that one is trying to address [1].
So I will do another review of this p
On 27.05.2021 13:01, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 09:16:07AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Especially for the use in evtchn_move_pirqs() (called when moving a vCPU
>> across pCPU-s) and the ones in EOI handling in PCI pass-through code,
>> serializing perhaps an entire domain isn
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 09:16:07AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Especially for the use in evtchn_move_pirqs() (called when moving a vCPU
> across pCPU-s) and the ones in EOI handling in PCI pass-through code,
> serializing perhaps an entire domain isn't helpful when no state (which
> isn't e.g. furt
Especially for the use in evtchn_move_pirqs() (called when moving a vCPU
across pCPU-s) and the ones in EOI handling in PCI pass-through code,
serializing perhaps an entire domain isn't helpful when no state (which
isn't e.g. further protected by the per-channel lock) changes.
Unfortunately this i