From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Tom Lendacky <toml@us.ibm.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Cristian Viana <vianac@br.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vhost: allow multiple workers threads
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:21:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120221032147.GB2502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329786250.13141.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 05:04:10PM -0800, Shirley Ma wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 23:00 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> > The point was really to avoid scheduler overhead
> > as with tcp, tx and rx tend to run on the same cpu.
>
> We have tried different approaches in the past, like splitting vhost
> thread to separate TX, RX threads; create per cpu vhost thread instead
> of creating per VM per virtio_net vhost thread...
>
> We think per cpu vhost thread is a better approach based on the data we
> have collected. It will reduce both vhost resource and scheduler
> overhead. It will not depend on host scheduler, has less various. The
> patch is under testing, we hope we can post it soon.
>
> Thanks
> Shirley
Yes, great, this is definitely interesting. I actually started with
a per-cpu one - it did not perform well but I did not
figure out why, switching to a single thread fixed it
and I did not dig into it.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-21 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-17 23:02 [PATCH 0/2][RFC] vhost: improve transmit rate with virtqueue polling Anthony Liguori
2012-02-17 23:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] vhost: allow multiple workers threads Anthony Liguori
2012-02-19 14:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-02-20 15:50 ` Tom Lendacky
2012-02-20 19:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-02-20 19:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-20 21:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-02-21 1:04 ` Shirley Ma
2012-02-21 3:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2012-02-21 4:03 ` Shirley Ma
2012-03-05 13:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-03-05 20:43 ` Shirley Ma
2012-02-21 4:32 ` Jason Wang
2012-02-21 4:51 ` Jason Wang
2012-02-17 23:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] vhost-net: add a spin_threshold parameter Anthony Liguori
2012-02-19 14:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-02-21 1:35 ` Shirley Ma
2012-02-21 5:34 ` Jason Wang
2012-02-21 6:28 ` Shirley Ma
2012-02-21 6:38 ` Jason Wang
2012-02-21 11:09 ` Shirley Ma
2012-02-21 16:08 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2012-03-12 8:12 ` Dor Laor
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