Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] basic busy polling support for vhost_net
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2015-11-30 03:31:14
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2015-11-30 03:31:14
Also in:
kvm, lkml, virtualization
From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:11:26 +0800
This series tries to add basic busy polling for vhost net. The idea is simple: at the end of tx/rx 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 ioctl. Test A were done through: - 50 us as busy loop timeout - Netperf 2.6 - Two machines with back to back connected ixgbe - Guest with 1 vcpu and 1 queue Results: - For stream workload, ioexits were reduced dramatically in medium size (1024-2048) of tx (at most -43%) and almost all rx (at most -84%) as a result of polling. This compensate for the possible wasted cpu cycles more or less. That porbably why we can still see some increasing in the normalized throughput in some cases. - Throughput of tx were increased (at most 50%) expect for the huge write (16384). And we can send more packets in the case (+tpkts were increased). - Very minor rx regression in some cases. - Improvemnt on TCP_RR (at most 17%).
Michael are you going to take this? It's touching vhost core as much as it is the vhost_net driver.