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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] virtio-mmio: add notify feature for per-queue
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
        Zha Bin <zhabin@linux.alibaba.com>
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On 2020/2/11 =E4=B8=8B=E5=8D=887:33, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 05:05:17PM +0800, Zha Bin wrote:
>> From: Liu Jiang<gerry@linux.alibaba.com>
>>
>> The standard virtio-mmio devices use notification register to signal
>> backend. This will cause vmexits and slow down the performance when we
>> passthrough the virtio-mmio devices to guest virtual machines.
>> We proposed to update virtio over MMIO spec to add the per-queue
>> notify feature VIRTIO_F_MMIO_NOTIFICATION[1]. It can allow the VMM to
>> configure notify location for each queue.
>>
>> [1]https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/21/31
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Liu Jiang<gerry@linux.alibaba.com>
>> Co-developed-by: Zha Bin<zhabin@linux.alibaba.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Zha Bin<zhabin@linux.alibaba.com>
>> Co-developed-by: Jing Liu<jing2.liu@linux.intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jing Liu<jing2.liu@linux.intel.com>
>> Co-developed-by: Chao Peng<chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Chao Peng<chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
> Hmm. Any way to make this static so we don't need
> base and multiplier?


E.g page per vq?

Thanks