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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 12:20:56 +0200
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] vhost_net: stop rx net polling when possible
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:40:08AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> After rx vq was enabled, we never stop polling its socket. This is sub optimal
> when may lead unnecessary wake-ups after the rx net work has already been
> queued. This could be optimized by stopping polling the rx net sock when
> processing both rx and tx and restart it afterward. This could save unnecessary
> wake-ups and even unnecessary spin locks acquiring with the help of commit
> 9e641bdcfa4ef4d6e2fbaa59c1be0ad5d1551fd5 "net-tun: restructure tun_do_read for
> better sleep/wakeup efficiency".
OK so the point is to avoid expensive wake_up_process calls?
It's a bit unfortunate that we are adding/removing things from wait
queue which certainly does take extra spin-locks.
> Test shows significant CPU% savings during almost all the cases:
>
> Guest rx stream:
> size(B)/sessions/throughput/cpu/normalized thru/
> 64/1/+0.7773% -8.6224% +10.2866%
> 64/2/+0.6335% -13.9109% +16.8946%
> 64/4/-0.8182% -14.8336% +16.4565%
> 64/8/+0.4830% -13.7675% +16.5256%
> 256/1/-7.0963% -12.6880% +6.4043%
> 256/2/-1.3982% -11.5424% +11.4678%
> 256/4/-0.0350% -11.8323% +13.3806%
> 256/8/-1.5830% -12.7693% +12.8238%
> 1024/1/-7.4895% -19.1449% +14.4152%
> 1024/2/-7.4575% -19.4018% +14.8195%
> 1024/4/-0.3881% -9.1183% +9.6061%
> 1024/8/+0.4713% -11.0155% +12.9087%
> 4096/1/+0.8786% -8.4050% +10.1355%
> 4096/2/+0.0098% -15.3094% +18.0885%
> 4096/4/+0.0445% -10.8247% +12.1886%
> 4096/8/-2.1317% -12.5111% +11.8637%
> 16384/1/-0.0008% -6.1891% +6.5966%
> 16384/2/-0.0117% -16.2716% +19.4198%
> 16384/4/+0.0001% -5.9197% +6.2923%
> 16384/8/+0.0173% -7.6681% +8.3236%
> 65535/1/+0.0011% -10.3594% +11.5578%
> 65535/2/-0.4108% -14.4304% +16.3838%
> 65535/4/+0.0011% -10.3594% +11.5578%
> 65535/8/-0.4108% -14.4304% +16.3838%
>
> Guest tx stream:
> size(B)/sessions/throughput/cpu/normalized thru/
> 64/1/-0.6228% -2.1936% +1.6060%
> 64/2/+0.8646% -3.5063% +4.5297%
> 64/4/+0.8733% -3.2495% +4.2613%
> 64/8/+1.4290% -3.5593% +5.1724%
> 256/1/+7.2098% -3.1122% +10.6535%
> 256/2/-10.1408% -6.8230% -3.5607%
> 256/4/-11.3531% -6.7085% -4.9785%
> 256/8/-10.2723% -6.5628% -3.9701%
> 1024/1/-18.9329% -13.6162% -6.1547%
> 1024/2/-0.3728% -1.3181% +0.9580%
> 1024/4/+0.0125% -3.6338% +3.7838%
> 1024/8/-0.0030% -2.7282% +2.8017%
> 4096/1/+16.9367% -1.9435% +19.2543%
> 4096/2/+0.0121% -6.1682% +6.5866%
> 4096/4/+0.0019% -3.8510% +4.0072%
> 4096/8/-0.0222% -4.1368% +4.2922%
> 16384/1/-0.0026% -8.6892% +9.5132%
> 16384/2/-0.0012% -10.1676% +11.3171%
> 16384/4/+0.0196% -1.2551% +1.2908%
> 16384/8/+0.1303% -3.2634% +3.5082%
> 65535/1/+0.0019% -3.4694% +3.5961%
> 65535/2/-0.0003% -0.7635% +0.7690%
> 65535/4/-0.0219% -2.7875% +2.8448%
> 65535/8/+0.1137% -2.7922% +2.9894%
>
> TCP_RR:
> size(B)/sessions/throughput/cpu/normalized thru/
> 256/1/+1.9004% -4.7985% +7.0366%
> 256/25/-4.7366% -11.0809% +7.1349%
> 256/50/+3.9808% -5.2037% +9.6887%
> 4096/1/+2.1619% -0.7303% +2.9134%
> 4096/25/-13.1836% -14.7298% +1.8134%
> 4096/50/-11.1990% -15.4763% +5.0605%
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Could you split RX/TX parts out please, and benchmark separately?
They are really independent.
> ---
> drivers/vhost/net.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> index 8dae2f7..d4a9742 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> @@ -334,6 +334,8 @@ static void vhost_zerocopy_callback(struct ubuf_info *ubuf, bool success)
> static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
> {
> struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq = &net->vqs[VHOST_NET_VQ_TX];
> + struct vhost_virtqueue *rx_vq = &net->vqs[VHOST_NET_VQ_RX].vq;
> + struct vhost_poll *rx_poll = &net->poll[VHOST_NET_VQ_RX];
> struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = &nvq->vq;
> unsigned out, in, s;
> int head;
> @@ -348,15 +350,18 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
> size_t len, total_len = 0;
> int err;
> size_t hdr_size;
> - struct socket *sock;
> + struct socket *sock, *rxsock;
> struct vhost_net_ubuf_ref *uninitialized_var(ubufs);
> - bool zcopy, zcopy_used;
> + bool zcopy, zcopy_used, poll = false;
>
> mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
> + mutex_lock(&rx_vq->mutex);
> sock = vq->private_data;
> + rxsock = rx_vq->private_data;
> if (!sock)
> goto out;
>
> + vhost_poll_stop(rx_poll);
> vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
>
> hdr_size = nvq->vhost_hlen;
> @@ -451,11 +456,17 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
> total_len += len;
> vhost_net_tx_packet(net);
> if (unlikely(total_len >= VHOST_NET_WEIGHT)) {
> - vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
> + poll = true;
> break;
> }
> }
> +
> + if (rxsock)
> + vhost_poll_start(rx_poll, rxsock->file);
> + if (poll)
> + vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
> out:
> + mutex_unlock(&rx_vq->mutex);
> mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
> }
>
> @@ -554,6 +565,7 @@ err:
> static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
> {
> struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq = &net->vqs[VHOST_NET_VQ_RX];
> + struct vhost_poll *poll = &net->poll[VHOST_NET_VQ_RX];
> struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = &nvq->vq;
> unsigned uninitialized_var(in), log;
> struct vhost_log *vq_log;
> @@ -580,6 +592,8 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
> sock = vq->private_data;
> if (!sock)
> goto out;
> +
> + vhost_poll_stop(poll);
> vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
>
> vhost_hlen = nvq->vhost_hlen;
> @@ -660,10 +674,12 @@ static void handle_rx(struct vhost_net *net)
> vhost_log_write(vq, vq_log, log, vhost_len);
> total_len += vhost_len;
> if (unlikely(total_len >= VHOST_NET_WEIGHT)) {
> - vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
> - break;
> + vhost_poll_queue(poll);
> + goto out;
> }
> }
> +
> + vhost_poll_start(poll, sock->file);
> out:
> mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
> }
> --
> 1.9.1
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