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From: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	xiaohui.xin@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] macvtap TX zero copy between guest and host kernel
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:15:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1284477356.13351.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100914120545.GC703@redhat.com>

Hello Miachel,

On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 14:05 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> While others pointed out correctness issues with the patch,
> I would still like to see the performance numbers, just so we
> understand what's possible.

The performance looks good, it either saves the host CPU utilization the
guest is running on (by 8-10% in 8 cpus) or gain high BW w/i more guest
CPU utilization when host utilization is similar or less than before.
And I run 32 netperf instants and didn't hit any problem.

Here are output from host perf top: (I am upgrading my guest to most
recent kernel now to collect perf top data.) My guest has 2 vcpus, host
has 8 cpus.

Please let me know what performance data you would like to see. I will
run more

w/o zero copy patch:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   PerfTop:    1708 irqs/sec  kernel:63.7%  exact:  0.0% [1000Hz cycles],  (all, 8 CPUs)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

             samples  pcnt function                     DSO
             _______ _____ ____________________________ __________________________________________________________

             6842.00 47.4% copy_user_generic_string     /lib/modules/2.6.36-rc3+/build/vmlinux
              329.00  2.3% get_page_from_freelist       /lib/modules/2.6.36-rc3+/build/vmlinux
              307.00  2.1% list_del                     /lib/modules/2.6.36-rc3+/build/vmlinux
              289.00  2.0% alloc_pages_current          /lib/modules/2.6.36-rc3+/build/vmlinux
              283.00  2.0% __alloc_pages_nodemask       /lib/modules/2.6.36-rc3+/build/vmlinux
              234.00  1.6% ixgbe_xmit_frame             /lib/modules/2.6.36-rc3+/kernel/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe.ko
              232.00  1.6% vmx_vcpu_run                 /lib/modules/2.6.36-rc3+/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko
              210.00  1.5% schedule                     /lib/modules/2.6.36-rc3+/build/vmlinux
              173.00  1.2% _cond_resched                /lib/modules/2.6.36-rc3+/build/vmlinux


w/i zero copy patch:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   PerfTop:    1108 irqs/sec  kernel:43.0%  exact:  0.0% [1000Hz cycles],  (all, 8 CPUs)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

             samples  pcnt function                 DSO
             _______ _____ ________________________ ___________

              281.00  5.1% copy_user_generic_string [kernel]
              235.00  4.3% vmx_vcpu_run             [kvm_intel]
              228.00  4.1% gup_pte_range            [kernel]
              211.00  3.8% tg_shares_up             [kernel]
              179.00  3.2% schedule                 [kernel]
              148.00  2.7% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave   [kernel]
              139.00  2.5% iommu_no_mapping         [kernel]
              124.00  2.2% ixgbe_xmit_frame         [ixgbe]
              123.00  2.2% kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run  [kvm]
              122.00  2.2% _raw_spin_lock           [kernel]
              113.00  2.1% put_page                 [kernel]
               92.00  1.7% vhost_get_vq_desc        [vhost_net]
               81.00  1.5% get_user_pages_fast      [kernel]
               81.00  1.5% memcpy_fromiovec         [kernel]
               80.00  1.5% translate_desc           [vhost_net]

w/i zero copy patch, and NIC IRQ cpu affinity (netper/netserver on cpu 0, interrupts on cpu1)

[root@localhost ~]# netperf -H 10.0.4.74 -c -C -l 60 -T0,0 -- -m 65536
TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 10.0.4.74 (10.0.4.74) port 0 AF_INET : cpu bind
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

 87380  16384  65536    60.00      9384.25   53.92    13.62    0.941   0.951
[root@localhost ~]#







      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-14 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-13 20:43 [RFC PATCH 0/1] macvtap TX zero copy between guest and host kernel Shirley Ma
2010-09-13 20:47 ` RFC PATCH 1/2] macvtap: A new sock zero copy flag Shirley Ma
2010-09-13 20:48 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] macvtap: TX zero copy between guest and host kernel Shirley Ma
2010-09-14  3:17   ` David Miller
2010-09-14  9:12     ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-14 15:05       ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-14 15:21         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-14 15:22           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-14 16:00             ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-14 16:29               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-14 17:02                 ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-14 18:27                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-14 18:49                     ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-14 19:01                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-14 19:20                         ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-15  5:31                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-14 19:36                         ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-15  5:12                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-15  6:21                             ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-15 10:10                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-15 14:52                                 ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-15 15:04                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-15 15:39                                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-15 17:00                                       ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-15 17:30                                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-15 18:48                                           ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-29  3:24                                   ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-29  8:16                                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-29  8:28                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-29 14:33                                         ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-29 14:56                                         ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-29 14:31                                       ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-29 14:37                                       ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-29 15:14                                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-29 15:23                                       ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-15  2:46                 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-15  9:58                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-16  8:18                     ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-16 10:02                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-15  1:56           ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-15  1:50         ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-15  2:40           ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-15  2:55             ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-15  5:27             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-15  6:17               ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-14 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH 0/1] macvtap " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-14 15:15   ` Shirley Ma [this message]

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