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...iffy. If 0, never start polling."); > + > +static int poll_stop_idle = 3*HZ; /* 3 seconds */ > +module_param(poll_stop_idle, int, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR); > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(poll_stop_idle, "Stop continuous polling of virtqueue after this many jiffies of no work."); This seems ridicoudly high. Even one jiffie is an eternity, so setting it to 1 as a default would reduce the CPU overhead for most cases. If we dont have a packet in one millisecond, we can surely go back to the kick approach, I think. Christian

From: Razya Ladelsky <razya at il.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:47:20 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] vhost: Add polling mode When vhost is waiting for buffers from the guest driver (e.g., more packets to send in vhost-net's transmit queue), it normally goes to sleep and waits for the guest to "kick" it. This kick involves a PIO in the guest, and therefore an exit (and possibly

From: Razya Ladelsky <razya at il.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:47:20 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] vhost: Add polling mode When vhost is waiting for buffers from the guest driver (e.g., more packets to send in vhost-net's transmit queue), it normally goes to sleep and waits for the guest to "kick" it. This kick involves a PIO in the guest, and therefore an exit (and possibly