1. 12 Jan, 2012 1 commit
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      virtio: harsher barriers for rpmsg. · 7b21e34f
      Rusty Russell authored
      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/2011/12/11/22Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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  2. 11 Jan, 2012 39 commits