From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>,
Steve Dobbelstein <steved@us.ibm.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, mashirle@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network performance with small packets
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:48:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110202154841.GB12738@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296661371.25430.13.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 07:42:51AM -0800, Shirley Ma wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 12:49 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 11:33:49PM -0800, Shirley Ma wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 23:14 -0800, Shirley Ma wrote:
> > > > w/i guest change, I played around the parameters,for example: I
> > could
> > > > get 3.7Gb/s with 42% CPU BW increasing from 2.5Gb/s for 1K message
> > > > size,
> > > > w/i dropping packet, I was able to get up to 6.2Gb/s with similar
> > CPU
> > > > usage.
> > >
> > > I meant w/o guest change, only vhost changes. Sorry about that.
> > >
> > > Shirley
> >
> > Ah, excellent. What were the parameters?
>
> I used half of the ring size 129 for packet counters, but the
> performance is still not as good as dropping packets on guest, 3.7 Gb/s
> vs. 6.2Gb/s.
>
> Shirley
And this is with sndbuf=0 in host, yes?
And do you see a lot of tx interrupts?
How packets per interrupt?
--
MST
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2011-01-27 20:05 ` Network performance with small packets Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-27 20:15 ` Shirley Ma
2011-01-28 18:29 ` Steve Dobbelstein
2011-01-28 22:51 ` Steve Dobbelstein
2011-02-01 15:52 ` [PATCHv2 dontapply] vhost-net tx tuning Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-01 23:07 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2011-02-01 23:27 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 4:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-27 21:02 ` Network performance with small packets David Miller
2011-01-27 21:30 ` Shirley Ma
2011-01-28 12:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-01 0:24 ` Steve Dobbelstein
2011-02-01 1:30 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2011-02-01 5:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-01 21:09 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-01 21:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-01 21:32 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-01 21:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-01 21:53 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-01 21:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-01 22:59 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 4:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-02 6:05 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 6:19 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 6:29 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-02 7:14 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 7:33 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 10:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-02 15:42 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 15:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2011-02-02 17:12 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 18:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-02 18:26 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 10:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-02 6:34 ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-02-02 7:03 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 7:37 ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-02-02 10:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-02 15:39 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 15:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-02 17:10 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 17:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-02 18:11 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 18:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-02 19:29 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 20:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-02 21:03 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-02 21:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-02 21:41 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-03 5:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-03 6:09 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-03 6:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-03 5:05 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-03 6:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-03 15:58 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-03 16:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-03 17:18 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-01 5:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-01 17:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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2011-02-01 20:25 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-01 21:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-01 21:28 ` Shirley Ma
2011-02-01 21:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-02 4:39 ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-02-02 4:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-09 0:37 ` Rusty Russell
2011-02-09 0:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-09 1:39 ` Rusty Russell
2011-02-09 1:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-09 7:43 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-08 21:57 ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-09 2:21 ` Andrew Theurer
2011-03-09 15:42 ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-10 1:49 ` Rusty Russell
2011-04-12 20:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-04-14 11:28 ` Rusty Russell
2011-04-14 12:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-04-14 16:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-04-19 0:33 ` Rusty Russell
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