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From: jiangyiwen <jiangyiwen@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] VSOCK: The performance problem of vhost_vsock.
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 14:12:40 +0800
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On 2018/10/15 10:33, Jason Wang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2018年10月15日 09:43, jiangyiwen wrote:
>> Hi Stefan & All:
>>
>> Now I find vhost-vsock has two performance problems even if it
>> is not designed for performance.
>>
>> First, I think vhost-vsock should faster than vhost-net because it
>> is no TCP/IP stack, but the real test result vhost-net is 5~10
>> times than vhost-vsock, currently I am looking for the reason.
> 
> TCP/IP is not a must for vhost-net.
> 
> How do you test and compare the performance?
> 
> Thanks
> 

I test the performance used my test tool, like follows:

Server                   Client
socket()
bind()
listen()

                         socket(AF_VSOCK) or socket(AF_INET)
Accept() <-------------->connect()
                         *======Start Record Time======*
                         Call syscall sendfile()
Recv()
                         Send end
Receive end
Send(file_size)
                         Recv(file_size)
                         *======End Record Time======*

The test result, vhost-vsock is about 500MB/s, and vhost-net is about 2500MB/s.

By the way, vhost-net use single queue.

Thanks.

>> Second, vhost-vsock only supports two vqs(tx and rx), that means
>> if multiple sockets in the guest will use the same vq to transmit
>> the message and get the response. So if there are multiple applications
>> in the guest, we should support "Multiqueue" feature for Virtio-vsock.
>>
>> Stefan, have you encountered these problems?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yiwen.
>>
> 
> 
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