From: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
To: xiaohui.xin@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu,
davem@davemloft.net, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
jdike@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v9 00/16] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net.
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:23:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1281489804.3391.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1281086624-5765-1-git-send-email-xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Hello Xiaohui,
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 17:23 +0800, xiaohui.xin@intel.com wrote:
> Our goal is to improve the bandwidth and reduce the CPU usage.
> Exact performance data will be provided later.
Have you had any performance data to share here? I tested my
experimental macvtap zero copy for TX only. The performance I have seen
as below without any tuning, (default setting):
Before: netperf 16K message size results with 60 secs run is 7.5Gb/s
over ixgbe 10GbE card. perf top shows:
2103.00 12.9% copy_user_generic_string
1541.00 9.4% handle_tx
1490.00 9.1% _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
1361.00 8.3% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
1288.00 7.9% _raw_spin_lock
924.00 5.7% vhost_worker
After: netperf results with 60 secs run is 8.1Gb/s, perf output:
1093.00 9.9% _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
1048.00 9.5% handle_tx
934.00 8.5% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
864.00 7.9% _raw_spin_lock
644.00 5.9% vhost_worker
387.00 3.5% use_mm
I am still working on collecting more data (latency, cpu
utilization...). I will let you know once I get all data for macvtap TX
zero copy. Also I found some vhost performance regression on the new
kernel with tuning. I used to get 9.4Gb/s, now I couldn't get it.
Shirley
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-11 1:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-06 9:23 [RFC PATCH v9 00/16] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 01/16] Add a new structure for skb buffer from external xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 02/16] Add a new struct for device to manipulate external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 03/16] Add a ndo_mp_port_prep func to net_device_ops xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 04/16] Add a function make external buffer owner to query capability xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 05/16] Add a function to indicate if device use external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 06/16] Use callback to deal with skb_release_data() specially xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 07/16] Modify netdev_alloc_page() to get external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 08/16] Modify netdev_free_page() to release " xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 09/16] Don't do skb recycle, if device use " xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 10/16] Add a hook to intercept external buffers from NIC driver xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 11/16] Add header file for mp device xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 13/16] Add a kconfig entry and make entry " xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 12/16] Add mp(mediate passthru) device xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 14/16] Provides multiple submits and asynchronous notifications xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 15/16] An example how to modifiy NIC driver to use napi_gro_frags() interface xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06 9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 16/16] An example how to alloc user buffer based on " xiaohui.xin
2010-09-06 11:11 ` [RFC PATCH v9 12/16] Add mp(mediate passthru) device Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-10 13:40 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-11 7:41 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-12 13:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-15 3:13 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-15 11:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-17 3:16 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-20 8:08 ` xiaohui.xin
2010-09-20 11:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-21 1:39 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-21 13:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-22 11:41 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-22 11:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-23 12:56 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-26 11:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-27 0:42 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-11 9:42 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-08-11 1:23 ` Shirley Ma [this message]
2010-08-11 1:43 ` [RFC PATCH v9 00/16] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net Shirley Ma
2010-08-11 6:01 ` Shirley Ma
2010-08-11 6:55 ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-03 10:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-13 18:48 ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-13 21:35 ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-03 10:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-03 20:29 ` Sridhar Samudrala
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