freebsd-nq/sys/dev/xen/blkfront
Roger Pau Monné 38232e93d8 blkfront: add support for unmapped IO
Using unmapped IO is really beneficial when running inside of a VM,
since it avoids IPIs to other vCPUs in order to invalidate the
mappings.

This patch adds unmapped IO support to blkfront. The following tests
results have been obtained when running on a Xen host without HAP:

PVHVM
     3165.84 real      6354.17 user      4483.32 sys
PVHVM with unmapped IO
     2099.46 real      4624.52 user      2967.38 sys

This is because when running using shadow page tables TLB flushes and
range invalidations are much more expensive, so using unmapped IO
provides a very important performance boost.

Sponsored by:	Citrix Systems R&D
Tested by:	robak
MFC after:	1 week
PR:		191173

dev/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c:
 - Add and announce support for unmapped IO.
2014-08-11 15:37:02 +00:00
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blkfront.c blkfront: add support for unmapped IO 2014-08-11 15:37:02 +00:00
block.h Implement vector callback for PVHVM and unify event channel implementations 2013-08-29 19:52:18 +00:00