[dpdk-dev] Having troubles binding an SR-IOV VF to uio_pci_generic on Amazon instance

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at redhat.com
Wed Sep 30 22:36:58 CEST 2015


On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:00:49PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > You are increasing interrupt latency by a huge factor by channeling
> > interrupts through a scheduler.  Let user install an
> > interrupt handler function, and be done with it.
> > 
> Interrupt latency is not always hugely important. If you enter interrupt
> mode only when idle hundred more us on a first packet will not kill you.

It certainly affects worst-case latency.  And if you lower interupt
latency, you can go idle faster, so it affects power too.

> If
> interrupt latency is important then uio may be not the right solution,
> but then neither is vfio.

That's what I'm saying, if you don't need memory isolation you can do
better than just slightly tweak existing drivers.

> --
> 			Gleb.


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