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From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>,
	gorcunov@gmail.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, asias.hejun@gmail.com,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, penberg@kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [RFC] kvm tools: Implement multiple VQ for virtio-net
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:32:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321198364.2425.5.camel@sasha> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321196430.2425.2.camel@sasha>

On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 17:00 +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 12:24 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:12:01AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > This is a patch based on Krishna Kumar's patch series which implements
> > > multiple VQ support for virtio-net.
> > > 
> > > The patch was tested with ver3 of the patch.
> > > 
> > > Cc: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
> > > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> > > Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
> > > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
> > 
> > Any performance numbers?
> 
> I tried finding a box with more than two cores so I could test it on
> something like that as well.
> 
> From what I see this patch causes a performance regression on my 2 core
> box.
> 

[snip]

After discussing it with Michael, we found out that for a single TCP
flow the guest signals the same TX VQ, but the RX VQ keeps changing -
which means that theres missing host-guest synchronization of hash flow.

-- 

Sasha.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-13 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-11 22:12 [RFC] kvm tools: Implement multiple VQ for virtio-net Sasha Levin
2011-11-13 10:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-13 15:00   ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-13 15:32     ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2011-11-14  2:04     ` Asias He
2011-11-14 10:15       ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-15  4:44         ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-11-15 15:30           ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-16  6:10           ` jason wang
2011-11-16  9:09             ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-11-16 10:05               ` jason wang
2011-11-14 12:25       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-14 13:05         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-16  0:04           ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-16  7:23             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-21  0:41               ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-22 18:14                 ` Stephen Hemminger

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