netdev - Re: [PATCHv7] add mergeable buffers support to vhost

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Date:	Mon, 3 May 2010 13:34:11 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	David L Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv7] add mergeable buffers support to vhost_net

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 01:57:12PM -0700, David L Stevens wrote:
> This patch adds mergeable receive buffer support to vhost_net.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>

I've been doing some more testing before sending out a pull
request, and I see a drastic performance degradation in guest to host
traffic when this is applied but mergeable buffers are not in used
by userspace (existing qemu-kvm userspace).

This is both with and without my patch on top.

Without patch:
[mst@...k ~]$ sh runtest  2>&1 | tee ser-meregeable-disabled-kernel-only-tun-only.log
Starting netserver at port 12865
set_up_server could not establish a listen endpoint for  port 12865 with family AF_UNSPEC
TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 11.0.0.4 (11.0.0.4) port 0 AF_INET : demo
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

 87380  16384  16384    10.00      9107.26   89.20    33.85    0.802   2.436  

With patch:
TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 11.0.0.4 (11.0.0.4) port 0 AF_INET : demo
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

 87380  16384  16384    10.00        35.00   2.21     0.62     5.181   11.575 

For ease of testing, I put this on my tree
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git vhost-broken

Please take a look.
Thanks!

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MST
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