Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] virtio-net: using single MSIX irq for each TX/RX queue pair

On 12/26/2014 10:53 AM, Jason Wang wrote:

This patch try 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.

Cc: Rusty Russell <redacted>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <redacted>
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 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Note: an issue with this patch is it may trigger tx irq handler if at
least one more used. We could solve this by checking the used idx and
bypass the tx irq if host does not signal us. (Or just does the old tx
skbs reclaiming before the checking.)