[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Direct I/O performance: direct interrupts to running domU?
> One of the questions that came up in a discussion was whether it might > be technically possible to have interrupts delivered directly to a > running domain without the hypervisor overhead. This would presumably > involve some additional overhead at the time the hypervisor switched > domains, but it might be a worthwhile trade-off. ISTR Intel's VT containing some extensions to facilitate this sort of thing, but can't remember the details so I might be talking rubbish. Of course, since VT implies fully virt (at the moment) and direct IO implies paravirt, this would have to be some kind of weird hybrid... Seems like it ought to be possible. I'll let more knowledgeable folks comment on the more general case of standard hardware... But would note that if the guest could use polled access for lantency-sensitive stuff (for instance by tweaking the behaviour of NAPI) then the interrupt dispatch latency wouldn't be necessary at all. Infiniband devices also support polling queues to reduce latency anyhow, so if you were to use those the problem could perhaps be reduced. Just some random thoughts. Cheers, Mark -- Dave: Just a question. What use is a unicyle with no seat? And no pedals! Mark: To answer a question with a question: What use is a skateboard? Dave: Skateboards have wheels. Mark: My wheel has a wheel! _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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