On 10/29/2015 04:45 PM, Jason Wang wrote:

Hi all:

This series tries to add basic busy polling for vhost net. The idea is
simple: at the end of tx processing, busy polling for new tx added
descriptor and rx receive socket for a while. The maximum number of
time (in us) could be spent on busy polling was specified through
module parameter.

Test were done through:

- 50 us as busy loop timeout
- Netperf 2.6
- Two machines with back to back connected mlx4
- Guest with 8 vcpus and 1 queue

Result shows very huge improvement on both tx (at most 158%) and rr
(at most 53%) while rx is as much as in the past. Most cases the cpu
utilization is also improved:

Just notice there's something wrong in the setup. So the numbers are
incorrect here. Will re-run and post correct number here.

Sorry.