On 10/27/2015 1:38 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:52:47AM -0700, Ravi Kerur wrote:

quoted

Ported earlier patch from Jason Wang (dated 12/26/2014).

This patch tries to reduce the number of MSIX irqs required for
virtio-net by sharing a MSIX irq for each TX/RX queue pair through
channels. If transport support channel, about half of the MSIX irqs
were reduced.

Signed-off-by: Ravi Kerur <redacted>

Why bother BTW? Looks like this is adding a bunch of overhead
on data path - to what end?

Maybe you have a huge number of these devices ... but in that case, how
about sharing the config interrupt instead?
That's only possible if host supports VIRTIO_1
(so we can detect config interrupt by reading the ISR).

For my clarification, are you suggesting this as an additional changes for config interrupts or rework existing patch?

quoted

---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index d8838ded..d705cce 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c

@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ struct send_queue {
 
 	/* Name of the send queue: output.$index */
 	char name[40];
+
+	/* Name of the channel, shared with irq. */
+	char channel_name[40];
 };
 
 /* Internal representation of a receive virtqueue */

@@ -1529,6 +1532,8 @@ static int virtnet_find_vqs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
 	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 	int i, total_vqs;
 	const char **names;
+	const char **channel_names;
+	unsigned *channels;
 
 	/* We expect 1 RX virtqueue followed by 1 TX virtqueue, followed by
 	 * possible N-1 RX/TX queue pairs used in multiqueue mode, followed by

@@ -1548,6 +1553,17 @@ static int virtnet_find_vqs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
 	if (!names)
 		goto err_names;
 
+	channel_names = kmalloc_array(vi->max_queue_pairs,
+				      sizeof(*channel_names),
+				      GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!channel_names)
+		goto err_channel_names;
+
+	channels = kmalloc_array(total_vqs, sizeof(*channels),
+				 GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!channels)
+		goto err_channels;
+
 	/* Parameters for control virtqueue, if any */
 	if (vi->has_cvq) {
 		callbacks[total_vqs - 1] = NULL;

@@ -1562,10 +1578,15 @@ static int virtnet_find_vqs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
 		sprintf(vi->sq[i].name, "output.%d", i);
 		names[rxq2vq(i)] = vi->rq[i].name;
 		names[txq2vq(i)] = vi->sq[i].name;
+		sprintf(vi->sq[i].channel_name, "txrx.%d", i);
+		channel_names[i] = vi->sq[i].channel_name;
+		channels[rxq2vq(i)] = i;
+		channels[txq2vq(i)] = i;
 	}
 
 	ret = vi->vdev->config->find_vqs(vi->vdev, total_vqs, vqs, callbacks,
-					 names);
+					 names, channels, channel_names,
+					 vi->max_queue_pairs);
 	if (ret)
 		goto err_find;
 

@@ -1580,6 +1601,8 @@ static int virtnet_find_vqs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
 		vi->sq[i].vq = vqs[txq2vq(i)];
 	}
 
+	kfree(channels);
+	kfree(channel_names);
 	kfree(names);
 	kfree(callbacks);
 	kfree(vqs);

@@ -1587,6 +1610,10 @@ static int virtnet_find_vqs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
 	return 0;
 
 err_find:
+	kfree(channels);
+err_channels:
+	kfree(channel_names);
+err_channel_names:
 	kfree(names);
 err_names:
 	kfree(callbacks);

-- 
1.9.1