Hi all,

I'm working on this item in Upstream Networking todolist:

| - Sharing config interrupts
|    Support more devices by sharing a single msi vector
|    between multiple virtio devices.
|    (Applies to virtio-blk too).

I have this solution here, and only have draft patches of Solution
1 & 2, let's discuss if solution 3 is feasible.

* We should not introduce perf regression in this change
* little effect is acceptable because we are _sharing_ interrupt

Solution 1:
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share one LSI interrupt for configuration change of all virtio devices.
Draft patch: share_lsi_for_all_config.patch

Solution 2:
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share one MSI interrupt for configuration change of all virtio devices.
Draft patch: share_msix_for_all_config.patch

Solution 3:
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dynamic adjust interrupt policy when device is added or removed
Current:
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- try to allocate a MSI to device's config
- try to allocate a MSI for each vq
- share one MSI for all vqs of one device
- share one LSI for config & vqs of one device

additional dynamic policies:
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- if there is no enough MSI, adjust interrupt allocation for returning
  some MSI
   - try to find a device that allocated one MSI for each vq, change
     it to share one MSI for saving the MSI
   - try to share one MSI for config of all virtio_pci devices
   - try to share one LSI for config of all devices

- if device is removed, try to re-allocate freed MSI to existed
  devices, if they aren't in best status (one MSI for config, one
  MSI for each vq)
   - if config of all devices is sharing one LSI, try to upgrade it to MSI
   - if config of all devices is sharing one MSI, try to allocate one
     MSI for configuration change of each device
   - try to find a device that is sharing one MSI for all vqs, try to
     allocate one MSI for each vq



BTW, I saw we still notify all vqs even VIRTIO_PCI_ISR_CONFIG bit of
isr is set, is it necessary?

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c
index 101db3f..176aabc 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c

@@ -259,9 +259,9 @@ static irqreturn_t vp_interrupt(int irq, void

*opaque)
 
        /* Configuration change?  Tell driver if it wants to know. */
        if (isr & VIRTIO_PCI_ISR_CONFIG)
-               vp_config_changed(irq, opaque);
-
-       return vp_vring_interrupt(irq, opaque);
+               return vp_config_changed(irq, opaque);
+       else
+               return vp_vring_interrupt(irq, opaque);
 }
 
 static void vp_free_vectors(struct virtio_device *vdev)

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			Amos.