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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, gorcunov@gmail.com,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] kvm tools: Implement multiple VQ for virtio-net
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:34:42 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877h31ortx.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111114130507.GA18288@redhat.com>

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:05:07 +0200, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:25:17PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Why both the bandwidth and latency performance are dropping so dramatically
> > > with multiple VQ?
> > 
> > What's the expected benefit from multiple VQs
> 
> Heh, the original patchset didn't mention this :) It really should.
> They are supposed to speed up networking for high smp guests.

If we have one queue per guest CPU, does this allow us to run lockless?

Thanks,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-16  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-11 22:12 [RFC] kvm tools: Implement multiple VQ for virtio-net Sasha Levin
2011-11-13 10:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-13 15:00   ` Sasha Levin
     [not found]   ` <1321196430.2425.2.camel@sasha>
2011-11-13 15:32     ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-14  2:04     ` Asias He
     [not found]     ` <4EC07729.3050303@gmail.com>
2011-11-14 10:15       ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-14 12:25       ` Pekka Enberg
     [not found]       ` <CAOJsxLE4yRO+5XncrDEzVh5-RGXG+=HGTAmQ=bX=KMsDqf=feA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-11-14 13:05         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-16  0:04           ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2011-11-16  7:23             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-21  0:41               ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-22 18:14                 ` Stephen Hemminger
     [not found]       ` <1321265740.2425.7.camel@sasha>
2011-11-15  4:44         ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-11-15 15:30           ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-16  6:10           ` jason wang
2011-11-16  9:09             ` Krishna Kumar2
2011-11-16 10:05               ` jason wang

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