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Date:	Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:28:58 +0530
From:	Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	anthony@...emonkey.ws, arnd@...db.de, avi@...hat.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, kvm@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [v2 RFC PATCH 0/4] Implement multiqueue virtio-net

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote on 10/12/2010 10:39:07 PM:

> > Sorry for the delay, I was sick last couple of days. The results
> > with your patch are (%'s over original code):
> >
> > Code               BW%       CPU%       RemoteCPU
> > MQ     (#txq=16)   31.4%     38.42%     6.41%
> > MQ+MST (#txq=16)   28.3%     18.9%      -10.77%
> >
> > The patch helps CPU utilization but didn't help single stream
> > drop.
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> What other shared TX/RX locks are there?  In your setup, is the same
> macvtap socket structure used for RX and TX?  If yes this will create
> cacheline bounces as sk_wmem_alloc/sk_rmem_alloc share a cache line,
> there might also be contention on the lock in sk_sleep waitqueue.
> Anything else?

The patch is not introducing any locking (both vhost and virtio-net).
The single stream drop is due to different vhost threads handling the
RX/TX traffic.

I added a heuristic (fuzzy) to determine if more than one flow
is being used on the device, and if not, use vhost[0] for both
tx and rx (vhost_poll_queue figures this out before waking up
the suitable vhost thread).  Testing shows that single stream
performance is as good as the original code.

__________________________________________________________________________
		       #txqs = 2 (#vhosts = 3)
#     BW1     BW2   (%)       CPU1    CPU2 (%)       RCPU1   RCPU2 (%)
__________________________________________________________________________
1     77344   74973 (-3.06)   172     143 (-16.86)   358     324 (-9.49)
2     20924   21107 (.87)     107     103 (-3.73)    220     217 (-1.36)
4     21629   32911 (52.16)   214     391 (82.71)    446     616 (38.11)
8     21678   34359 (58.49)   428     845 (97.42)    892     1286 (44.17)
16    22046   34401 (56.04)   841     1677 (99.40)   1785    2585 (44.81)
24    22396   35117 (56.80)   1272    2447 (92.37)   2667    3863 (44.84)
32    22750   35158 (54.54)   1719    3233 (88.07)   3569    5143 (44.10)
40    23041   35345 (53.40)   2219    3970 (78.90)   4478    6410 (43.14)
48    23209   35219 (51.74)   2707    4685 (73.06)   5386    7684 (42.66)
64    23215   35209 (51.66)   3639    6195 (70.23)   7206    10218 (41.79)
80    23443   35179 (50.06)   4633    7625 (64.58)   9051    12745 (40.81)
96    24006   36108 (50.41)   5635    9096 (61.41)   10864   15283 (40.67)
128   23601   35744 (51.45)   7475    12104 (61.92)  14495   20405 (40.77)
__________________________________________________________________________
SUM:     BW: (37.6)     CPU: (69.0)     RCPU: (41.2)

__________________________________________________________________________
		       #txqs = 8 (#vhosts = 5)
#     BW1     BW2    (%)      CPU1     CPU2 (%)      RCPU1     RCPU2 (%)
__________________________________________________________________________
1     77344   75341 (-2.58)   172     171 (-.58)     358     356 (-.55)
2     20924   26872 (28.42)   107     135 (26.16)    220     262 (19.09)
4     21629   33594 (55.31)   214     394 (84.11)    446     615 (37.89)
8     21678   39714 (83.19)   428     949 (121.72)   892     1358 (52.24)
16    22046   39879 (80.88)   841     1791 (112.96)  1785    2737 (53.33)
24    22396   38436 (71.61)   1272    2111 (65.95)   2667    3453 (29.47)
32    22750   38776 (70.44)   1719    3594 (109.07)  3569    5421 (51.89)
40    23041   38023 (65.02)   2219    4358 (96.39)   4478    6507 (45.31)
48    23209   33811 (45.68)   2707    4047 (49.50)   5386    6222 (15.52)
64    23215   30212 (30.13)   3639    3858 (6.01)    7206    5819 (-19.24)
80    23443   34497 (47.15)   4633    7214 (55.70)   9051    10776 (19.05)
96    24006   30990 (29.09)   5635    5731 (1.70)    10864   8799 (-19.00)
128   23601   29413 (24.62)   7475    7804 (4.40)    14495   11638 (-19.71)
__________________________________________________________________________
SUM:     BW: (40.1)     CPU: (35.7)     RCPU: (4.1)
_______________________________________________________________________________


The SD numbers are also good (same table as before, but SD
instead of CPU:

__________________________________________________________________________
		       #txqs = 2 (#vhosts = 3)
#     BW%       SD1     SD2 (%)        RSD1     RSD2 (%)
__________________________________________________________________________
1     -3.06)    5       4 (-20.00)     21       19 (-9.52)
2     .87       6       6 (0)          27       27 (0)
4     52.16     26      32 (23.07)     108      103 (-4.62)
8     58.49     103     146 (41.74)    431      445 (3.24)
16    56.04     407     514 (26.28)    1729     1586 (-8.27)
24    56.80     934     1161 (24.30)   3916     3665 (-6.40)
32    54.54     1668    2160 (29.49)   6925     6872 (-.76)
40    53.40     2655    3317 (24.93)   10712    10707 (-.04)
48    51.74     3920    4486 (14.43)   15598    14715 (-5.66)
64    51.66     7096    8250 (16.26)   28099    27211 (-3.16)
80    50.06     11240   12586 (11.97)  43913    42070 (-4.19)
96    50.41     16342   16976 (3.87)   63017    57048 (-9.47)
128   51.45     29254   32069 (9.62)   113451   108113 (-4.70)
__________________________________________________________________________
SUM:     BW: (37.6)     SD: (10.9)     RSD: (-5.3)

__________________________________________________________________________
		       #txqs = 8 (#vhosts = 5)
#     BW%       SD1     SD2 (%)         RSD1     RSD2 (%)
__________________________________________________________________________
1     -2.58     5       5 (0)           21       21 (0)
2     28.42     6       6 (0)           27       25 (-7.40)
4     55.31     26      32 (23.07)      108      102 (-5.55)
8     83.19     103     128 (24.27)     431      368 (-14.61)
16    80.88     407     593 (45.70)     1729     1814 (4.91)
24    71.61     934     965 (3.31)      3916     3156 (-19.40)
32    70.44     1668    3232 (93.76)    6925     9752 (40.82)
40    65.02     2655    5134 (93.37)    10712    15340 (43.20)
48    45.68     3920    4592 (17.14)    15598    14122 (-9.46)
64    30.13     7096    3928 (-44.64)   28099    11880 (-57.72)
80    47.15     11240   18389 (63.60)   43913    55154 (25.59)
96    29.09     16342   21695 (32.75)   63017    66892 (6.14)
128   24.62     29254   36371 (24.32)   113451   109219 (-3.73)
__________________________________________________________________________
SUM:     BW: (40.1)     SD: (29.0)     RSD: (0)

This approach works nicely for both single and multiple stream.
Does this look good?

Thanks,

- KK

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