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From: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, steved@us.ibm.com,
	Tom Lendacky <tahm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Network performance with small packets - continued
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:38:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1299688682.25664.111.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110309163201.GC7165@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 18:32 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> I think your issues are with TX overrun.
> Besides delaying IRQ on TX, I don't have many ideas.
> 
> The one interesting thing is that you see better speed
> if you drop packets. netdev crowd says this should not happen,
> so could be an indicator of a problem somewhere.

Yes, I am looking at why guest didn't see see used_buffers on time from
vhost send TX completion I am trying to collect some data on vhost.

I also wonder whether it's a scheduler issue.

Thanks
Shirley


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-09 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201103071631.41964.tahm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-03-09  7:15 ` Network performance with small packets - continued Michael S. Tsirkin
     [not found] ` <20110309071558.GA25757@redhat.com>
2011-03-09 15:45   ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-09 16:10     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-03-09 16:25       ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-09 16:32         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-03-09 16:38           ` Shirley Ma [this message]
2011-03-09 16:09   ` Tom Lendacky
2011-03-09 16:21     ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-09 16:28     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-03-09 16:51     ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-09 17:16       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-03-09 18:16         ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-09 22:51     ` Tom Lendacky
2011-03-09 20:11   ` Tom Lendacky
2011-03-09 21:56     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-03-09 23:25       ` Tom Lendacky
2011-03-10  6:54         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-03-10 15:23           ` Tom Lendacky
2011-03-10 15:34             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-03-10 17:16               ` Tom Lendacky
2011-03-18 15:38                 ` Tom Lendacky
2011-03-10  0:59       ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-10  2:30         ` Rick Jones
2011-03-09 22:45     ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-09 22:57       ` Tom Lendacky

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