netdev - Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] vhost_net: stop polling socket during rx processing

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Date:	Tue, 07 Jun 2016 14:46:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jasowang@...hat.com
Cc:	mst@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] vhost_net: stop polling socket during rx
 processing

From: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Date: Wed,  1 Jun 2016 01:56:33 -0400

> We don't stop rx polling socket during rx processing, this will lead
> unnecessary wakeups from under layer net devices (E.g
> sock_def_readable() form tun). Rx will be slowed down in this
> way. This patch avoids this by stop polling socket during rx
> processing. A small drawback is that this introduces some overheads in
> light load case because of the extra start/stop polling, but single
> netperf TCP_RR does not notice any change. In a super heavy load case,
> e.g using pktgen to inject packet to guest, we get about ~8.8%
> improvement on pps:
> 
> before: ~1240000 pkt/s
> after:  ~1350000 pkt/s
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>

Applied.