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    kvm: irqfd: avoid update unmodified entries of the routing · 515a0c79
    Longpeng(Mike) authored
    All of the irqfds would to be updated when update the irq
    routing, it's too expensive if there're too many irqfds.
    
    However we can reduce the cost by avoid some unnecessary
    updates. For irqs of MSI type on X86, the update can be
    saved if the msi values are not change.
    
    The vfio migration could receives benefit from this optimi-
    zaiton. The test VM has 128 vcpus and 8 VF (with 65 vectors
    enabled), so the VM has more than 520 irqfds. We mesure the
    cost of the vfio_msix_enable (in QEMU, it would set routing
    for each irqfd) for each VF, and we can see the total cost
    can be significantly reduced.
    
                    Origin         Apply this Patch
    1st             8              4
    2nd             15             5
    3rd             22             6
    4th             24             6
    5th             36             7
    6th             44             7
    7th             51             8
    8th             58             8
    Total           258ms          51ms
    
    We're also tring to optimize the QEMU part [1], but it's still
    worth to optimize the KVM to gain more benefits.
    
    [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-08/msg04215.htmlSigned-off-by: default avatarLongpeng(Mike) <longpeng2@huawei.com>
    Message-Id: <20210827080003.2689-1-longpeng2@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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