Dong, Eddie wrote:
Hi Anthony:
I think you made misunderstanding to this patch. Current Qemu in
Xen is already DMA enabled. If I remembered correctly, it happens since
we change DM from Bochs to Qemu.
Without this patch, guest IO operation that trigger DMA (like
port 0xc000 write) will wait in Qemu till the DMA operation is
completed, that is original single thread IDE device model mean.
With this patch, a seperate thread will service the dma
operation started by IO operation, and interrupt target processor when
it is completed, while the main thread can rapidly return to guest (like
0xc000 write).
Yup, the site I linked to has two patches: a DMA patch and a concurrent
IO patch.
Here's a direct link:
http://people.brandeis.edu/~jcoiner/qemu_idedma/qemu_concurrent_io.patch
It's using the same basic approach as your patch (another thread waits
for completion of IO event). I'm pointing it out though in case there's
a desire to stay closer to QEMU upstream when possible. Might enable
more code sharing in the future.
Regards,
Thanks,eddie
Hi Eddie,
There was a patch floating around on qemu-devel recently to make IDE
DMA concurrent. Fabrice is planning to include it in QEMU as long as
there are no regressions. It may already be in CVS.
See
http://people.brandeis.edu/~jcoiner/qemu_idedma/qemu_dma_patch.html
The reported performance improvement IO is up to 20% so it's
definitely worth applying...
Regards,
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