virtio: harsher barriers for rpmsg.

We were cheating with our barriers; using the smp ones rather than the
real device ones.  That was fine, until rpmsg came along, which is
used to talk to a real device (a non-SMP CPU).

Unfortunately, just putting back the real barriers (reverting
d57ed95d) causes a performance regression on virtio-pci.  In
particular, Amos reports netbench's TCP_RR over virtio_net CPU
utilization increased up to 35% while throughput went down by up to
14%.

By comparison, this branch is in the noise.

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/11/22

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell
2012-01-12 15:44:42 +10:30
parent e343a895a9
commit 7b21e34fd1
8 changed files with 35 additions and 22 deletions

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@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static struct virtqueue *kvm_find_vq(struct virtio_device *vdev,
goto out;
vq = vring_new_virtqueue(config->num, KVM_S390_VIRTIO_RING_ALIGN,
vdev, (void *) config->address,
vdev, true, (void *) config->address,
kvm_notify, callback, name);
if (!vq) {
err = -ENOMEM;