Re: [PATCH 0/6] Kill off the virtio_net tx mitigation timer

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey,
>
> The main patch in this series is 5/6 - it just kills off the
> virtio_net tx mitigation timer and does all the tx I/O in the
> I/O thread.
>
> Below are the results I got from benchmarking guest->host and
> host->guest on my machine.
>
> There's enough numbers there to make anyone blind, but basically
> there are results for current kvm-userspace.git, with the
> no-tx-timer patch applied and with the drop-the-mutex patch
> applied.
>
> Also, I've included results that show what difference some tuning
> makes with all the patches applied. The tuning basically just
> involves pinning the I/O thread and the netperf/netserver processes
> in both the host and guest to two physical CPUs which share a L2
> cache.
>
> (Yes, the 1k buffer size results are weird - we think there's a bug
> in recent kernels that causes us not to coalesce these small buffers
> into a large GSO packet before sending)
>   

Applied 1-2 while we debate the rest.

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