netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next V3 1/3] xen-netback: split event channels support for Xen backend driver

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Date:	Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:18:07 +0100
From:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
CC:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>, <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	<ian.campbell@...rix.com>, <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	<annie.li@...cle.com>, <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V3 1/3] xen-netback: split event channels
 support for Xen backend driver

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:48:25AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 22.05.13 at 18:34, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com> wrote:
> > Netback and netfront only use one event channel to do TX / RX notification,
> > which may cause unnecessary wake-up of processing routines. This patch adds a
> > new feature called feature-split-event-channels to netback, enabling it to
> > handle TX and RX events separately.
> > 
> > Netback will use tx_irq to notify guest for TX completion, rx_irq for RX
> > notification.
> 
> While I can see the benefit for the frontend, does this really make
> a lot of a difference to the backend considering that both rx and tx
> handling get done on the same thread anyway?
> 

Not for now. But I'm working on separating the backend handling routines.

So if you're thinking about backporting, I don't think this is the
material.


Wei.
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