From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: AlacrityVM numbers updated for 31-rc4 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:05:31 -0500 Message-ID: <4A834ABB.4010801@codemonkey.ws> References: <4A83296B.3080606@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alacrityvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, alacrityvm-users@lists.sourceforge.net, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Gregory Haskins Return-path: Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.27]:45049 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751879AbZHLXFe (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:05:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A83296B.3080606@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Gregory Haskins wrote: > I re-ran the numbers on 10GE against the actual alacrityvm v0.1 release > available in git on kernel.org. > > I tried to include the newly announced "vhost" driver (Michael Tsirkin) > for virtio acceleration, but ran into issues getting the patches to apply. > > For now, this includes native, virtio-u (virtio-userspace), and venet > all running on 31-rc4. If I can resolve the issue with Michaels > patches, I will add "virtio-k" (virtio-kernel) to the mix as well. For > now, here are the results for 1500mtu: > > native: 7388Mb/s, 29.8us rtt (33505 tps udp-rr) > venet: 3654Mb/s, 56.8us rtt (17600 tps udp-rr) > virtio-u: 1955Mb/s, 4016.0us rtt ( 249 tps udp-rr) > Just FYI, the numbers quoted are wrong for virtio-u. Greg's machine didn't have high res timers enabled in the kernel. He'll post newer numbers later but they're much better than these (venet is still ahead though). Regards, Anthony Liguori