netdev - Re: [net-next RFC V5 3/5] virtio: intorduce an API to set affinity for a virtqueue

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Message-ID: <5023D8D1.3060604@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:35:45 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
CC:	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, mst@...hat.com,
	mashirle@...ibm.com, krkumar2@...ibm.com,
	habanero@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
	tahm@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, jwhan@...ewood.snu.ac.kr,
	davem@...emloft.net, kvm@...r.kernel.org, sri@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [net-next RFC V5 3/5] virtio: intorduce an API to set affinity
 for a virtqueue

On 08/09/2012 06:13 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 05/07/2012 12:29, Jason Wang ha scritto:
>> Sometimes, virtio device need to configure irq affiniry hint to maximize the
>> performance. Instead of just exposing the irq of a virtqueue, this patch
>> introduce an API to set the affinity for a virtqueue.
>> 
>> The api is best-effort, the affinity hint may not be set as expected due to
>> platform support, irq sharing or irq type. Currently, only pci method were
>> implemented and we set the affinity according to:
>> 
>> - if device uses INTX, we just ignore the request
>> - if device has per vq vector, we force the affinity hint
>> - if the virtqueues share MSI, make the affinity OR over all affinities
>>  requested
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
> 
> It looks like both I and Jason will need these patches during the 3.7
> merge window, and from different trees (net-next vs. scsi).  How do we
> synchronize?

Get one of them to promise not to rebase, merge it, and base your
patches on top of the merge.

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