virtio-serial: Enable ioeventfd

Enable ioeventfd for virtio-serial devices by default.  Commit
25db9ebe15125deb32958c6df74996f745edf1f9 lists the benefits of using
ioeventfd.

Copying a file from guest to host over a virtio-serial channel didn't
show much difference in time or io_exit rate.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>

diff --git a/hw/virtio-pci.c b/hw/virtio-pci.c
index 952b5d2..ef65590 100644 (file)
--- a/hw/virtio-pci.c
+++ b/hw/virtio-pci.c
@@ -789,6 +789,7 @@ static int virtio_serial_exit_pci(PCIDevice *pci_dev)
 {
     VirtIOPCIProxy *proxy = DO_UPCAST(VirtIOPCIProxy, pci_dev, pci_dev);
 
+    virtio_pci_stop_ioeventfd(proxy);
     virtio_serial_exit(proxy->vdev);
     return virtio_exit_pci(pci_dev);
 }
@@ -898,6 +899,8 @@ static PCIDeviceInfo virtio_info[] = {
         .init      = virtio_serial_init_pci,
         .exit      = virtio_serial_exit_pci,
         .qdev.props = (Property[]) {
+            DEFINE_PROP_BIT("ioeventfd", VirtIOPCIProxy, flags,
+                            VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT, true),
             DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("vectors", VirtIOPCIProxy, nvectors,
                                DEV_NVECTORS_UNSPECIFIED),
             DEFINE_PROP_HEX32("class", VirtIOPCIProxy, class_code, 0),