RE: [Xen-devel] RE: Rather slow time of Ping in Windows with GPLPVdriver

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> I did post a patch ages ago. It was deemed a bit too hacky. I think it would
> probably be better to re-examine the way Windows PV drivers are handling
> interrupts. It would be much nicer if we could properly bind event channels
> across all our vCPUs; we may be able to leverage what Stefano did for Linux
> PV-on-HVM.
> 

What would also be nice is to have multiple interrupts attached to the platform 
pci driver, and bind events to a specific interrupt, and be able to control the 
affinity of each interrupt.

Another idea would be that each xenbus device hotplugs a new pci device with an 
interrupt. That only works for OS's that support hotplug pci though... 

MSI interrupts might be another way of conveying event channel information as 
part of the interrupt, but I don't know enough about how MSI works to know if 
that is possible. I believe you still need one irq per 'message id' so your 
back to my first wish item.

Under Windows, if we set the affinity of the platform pci irq to cpu0 will that 
do the job (bind the irq to cpu0), or are there inefficiencies in doing that?

James


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