From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] [RFC] virtio-net: Improve small packet performance
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 18:34:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110505153413.GC1915@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFB1ACC9EB.4567C1B1-ON65257887.0050044B-65257887.0054A5CE@in.ibm.com>
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 08:57:13PM +0530, Krishna Kumar2 wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote on 05/05/2011 02:34:39 PM:
>
> > > Do I need to apply all the patches and simply test?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > - KK
> >
> > Exactly. You can also try to tune the threshold
> > for interrupts as well.
>
> I haven't tuned the threshhold, it is left it at 3/4. I ran
> the new qemu/vhost/guest, and the results for 1K, 2K and 16K
> are below. Note this is a different kernel version from my
> earlier test results. So, f.e., BW1 represents 2.6.39-rc2,
> the original kernel; while BW2 represents 2.6.37-rc5 (MST's
> kernel).
Weird. My kernel is actually 2.6.39-rc2. So which is which?
> This also isn't with the fixes you have sent just
> now. I will get a run with that either late tonight or
> tomorrow.
Shouldn't affect anything performance-wise.
> ________________________________________________________
> I/O size: 1K
> # BW1 BW2 (%) SD1 SD2 (%)
> ________________________________________________________
> 1 1723 3016 (75.0) 4.7 2.6 (-44.6)
> 2 3223 6712 (108.2) 18.0 7.1 (-60.5)
> 4 7223 8258 (14.3) 36.5 24.3 (-33.4)
> 8 8689 7943 (-8.5) 131.5 101.6 (-22.7)
> 16 8059 7398 (-8.2) 578.3 406.4 (-29.7)
> 32 7758 7208 (-7.0) 2281.4 1574.7 (-30.9)
> 64 7503 7155 (-4.6) 9734.0 6368.0 (-34.5)
> 96 7496 7078 (-5.5) 21980.9 15477.6 (-29.5)
> 128 7389 6900 (-6.6) 40467.5 26031.9 (-35.6)
> ________________________________________________________
> Summary: BW: (4.4) SD: (-33.5)
>
> ________________________________________________________
> I/O size: 2K
> # BW1 BW2 (%) SD1 SD2 (%)
> ________________________________________________________
> 1 1608 4968 (208.9) 5.0 1.3 (-74.0)
> 2 3354 6974 (107.9) 18.6 4.9 (-73.6)
> 4 8234 8344 (1.3) 35.6 17.9 (-49.7)
> 8 8427 7818 (-7.2) 103.5 71.2 (-31.2)
> 16 7995 7491 (-6.3) 410.1 273.9 (-33.2)
> 32 7863 7149 (-9.0) 1678.6 1080.4 (-35.6)
> 64 7661 7092 (-7.4) 7245.3 4717.2 (-34.8)
> 96 7517 6984 (-7.0) 15711.2 9838.9 (-37.3)
> 128 7389 6851 (-7.2) 27121.6 18255.7 (-32.6)
> ________________________________________________________
> Summary: BW: (6.0) SD: (-34.5)
>
> ________________________________________________________
> I/O size: 16K
> # BW1 BW2 (%) SD1 SD2 (%)
> ________________________________________________________
> 1 6684 7019 (5.0) 1.1 1.1 (0)
> 2 7674 7196 (-6.2) 5.0 4.8 (-4.0)
> 4 7358 8032 (9.1) 21.3 20.4 (-4.2)
> 8 7393 8015 (8.4) 82.7 82.0 (-.8)
> 16 7958 8366 (5.1) 283.2 310.7 (9.7)
> 32 7792 8113 (4.1) 1257.5 1363.0 (8.3)
> 64 7673 8040 (4.7) 5723.1 5812.4 (1.5)
> 96 7462 7883 (5.6) 12731.8 12119.8 (-4.8)
> 128 7338 7800 (6.2) 21331.7 21094.7 (-1.1)
> ________________________________________________________
> Summary: BW: (4.6) SD: (-1.5)
>
> Thanks,
>
> - KK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-05 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-04 14:02 [PATCH 0/4] [RFC] virtio-net: Improve small packet performance Krishna Kumar
2011-05-04 14:03 ` [PATCH 1/4] [RFC] netdevice: Introduce per-txq xmit_restart Krishna Kumar
2011-05-04 14:03 ` [PATCH 2/4] [RFC] virtio: Introduce new API to get free space Krishna Kumar
2011-05-04 14:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-04 20:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-05 3:08 ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-05-05 9:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-04 19:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-04 14:03 ` [PATCH 3/4] [RFC] virtio-net: Changes to virtio-net driver Krishna Kumar
2011-05-05 12:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-04 14:03 ` [PATCH 4/4] [RFC] sched: Changes to dequeue_skb Krishna Kumar
2011-05-04 14:46 ` [PATCH 0/4] [RFC] virtio-net: Improve small packet performance Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-04 14:59 ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-05-04 21:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-05 8:03 ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-05-05 9:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-05 9:43 ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-05-05 10:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-05 10:57 ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-05-05 15:27 ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-05-05 15:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2011-05-07 7:15 ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-05-05 15:36 ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-05-05 15:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-05 15:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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2011-05-04 14:10 Krishna Kumar
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