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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Santosh R <skrastapur@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, tom@herbertland.com
Subject: Re: Low throughput in VMs using VxLAN
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:27:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55DB53E4.4010105@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOoYtEtnvYKcs7s0Bmv+7+L0=nhXdJfeC2uSZa8Nz9i_+jy2Vw@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/24/2015 09:19 AM, Santosh R wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>     Earlier I was seeing lower throughput in VMs using VxLan as GRO was
> not happening in VM.
> Tom Herbert suggested to use "vxlan: GRO support at tunnel layer" patch series.
> With today's net-next (4.2.0-rc7) in host and VM, I could see GRO
> happening for vxlan, macvtap and virtual interface in VM.
> The throughput is still low between VMs (around 4Gbps compared to
> 9Gbps without VxLAN).

Out of curiosity, have you tried tweaking gro_flush_timeout 
(gro_flush_interval?) for the VMs eth interface?  Say perhaps a value of 
1000?  (I'm assuming the VM is using virtio_net) Does the behaviour 
change if vhost-net is loaded into the host and used by the VM?

rick jones

For completeness, it would also be good to compare the likes of netperf 
TCP_RR between VxLAN and without.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-24 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-24 16:19 Low throughput in VMs using VxLAN Santosh R
2015-08-24 17:27 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2015-08-24 18:15 ` Vlad Yasevich

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