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Message-ID: <20101109153325.GB26153@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 17:33:25 +0200
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
Cc: anthony@...emonkey.ws, arnd@...db.de, avi@...hat.com,
davem@...emloft.net, eric.dumazet@...il.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [v3 RFC PATCH 0/4] Implement multiqueue virtio-net
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:58:44PM +0530, Krishna Kumar2 wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote on 11/09/2010 06:52:39 PM:
>
> > > > Re: [v3 RFC PATCH 0/4] Implement multiqueue virtio-net
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 09:20:38PM +0530, Krishna Kumar2 wrote:
> > > > > > Krishna Kumar2/India/IBM@...IN wrote on 10/20/2010 02:24:52 PM:
> > > > >
> > > > > Any feedback, comments, objections, issues or bugs about the
> > > > > patches? Please let me know if something needs to be done.
> > > > >
> > > > > Some more test results:
> > > > > _____________________________________________________
> > > > > Host->Guest BW (numtxqs=2)
> > > > > # BW% CPU% RCPU% SD% RSD%
> > > > > _____________________________________________________
> > > >
> > > > I think we discussed the need for external to guest testing
> > > > over 10G. For large messages we should not see any change
> > > > but you should be able to get better numbers for small messages
> > > > assuming a MQ NIC card.
> > >
> > > I had to make a few changes to qemu (and a minor change in macvtap
> > > driver) to get multiple TXQ support using macvtap working. The NIC
> > > is a ixgbe card.
> > >
> > >
> __________________________________________________________________________
> > > Org vs New (I/O: 512 bytes, #numtxqs=2, #vhosts=3)
> > > # BW1 BW2 (%) SD1 SD2 (%) RSD1 RSD2 (%)
> > >
> __________________________________________________________________________
> > > 1 14367 13142 (-8.5) 56 62 (10.7) 8 8 (0)
> > > 2 3652 3855 (5.5) 37 35 (-5.4) 7 6 (-14.2)
> > > 4 12529 12059 (-3.7) 65 77 (18.4) 35 35 (0)
> > > 8 13912 14668 (5.4) 288 332 (15.2) 175 184 (5.1)
> > > 16 13433 14455 (7.6) 1218 1321 (8.4) 920 943 (2.5)
> > > 24 12750 13477 (5.7) 2876 2985 (3.7) 2514 2348 (-6.6)
> > > 32 11729 12632 (7.6) 5299 5332 (.6) 4934 4497 (-8.8)
> > > 40 11061 11923 (7.7) 8482 8364 (-1.3) 8374 7495
> (-10.4)
> > > 48 10624 11267 (6.0) 12329 12258 (-.5) 12762 11538
> (-9.5)
> > > 64 10524 10596 (.6) 21689 22859 (5.3) 23626 22403
> (-5.1)
> > > 80 9856 10284 (4.3) 35769 36313 (1.5) 39932 36419
> (-8.7)
> > > 96 9691 10075 (3.9) 52357 52259 (-.1) 58676 53463
> (-8.8)
> > > 128 9351 9794 (4.7) 114707 94275 (-17.8) 114050 97337
> (-14.6)
> > >
> __________________________________________________________________________
> > > Avg: BW: (3.3) SD: (-7.3) RSD: (-11.0)
> > >
> > >
> __________________________________________________________________________
> > > Org vs New (I/O: 1K, #numtxqs=8, #vhosts=5)
> > > # BW1 BW2 (%) SD1 SD2 (%) RSD1 RSD2 (%)
> > >
> __________________________________________________________________________
> > > 1 16509 15985 (-3.1) 45 47 (4.4) 7 7 (0)
> > > 2 6963 4499 (-35.3) 17 51 (200.0) 7 7 (0)
> > > 4 12932 11080 (-14.3) 49 74 (51.0) 35 35 (0)
> > > 8 13878 14095 (1.5) 223 292 (30.9) 175 181 (3.4)
> > > 16 13440 13698 (1.9) 980 1131 (15.4) 926 942 (1.7)
> > > 24 12680 12927 (1.9) 2387 2463 (3.1) 2526 2342 (-7.2)
> > > 32 11714 12261 (4.6) 4506 4486 (-.4) 4941 4463 (-9.6)
> > > 40 11059 11651 (5.3) 7244 7081 (-2.2) 8349 7437 (-10.9)
> > > 48 10580 11095 (4.8) 10811 10500 (-2.8) 12809 11403
> (-10.9)
> > > 64 10569 10566 (0) 19194 19270 (.3) 23648 21717 (-8.1)
> > > 80 9827 10753 (9.4) 31668 29425 (-7.0) 39991 33824
> (-15.4)
> > > 96 10043 10150 (1.0) 45352 44227 (-2.4) 57766 51131
> (-11.4)
> > > 128 9360 9979 (6.6) 92058 79198 (-13.9) 114381 92873
> (-18.8)
> > >
> __________________________________________________________________________
> > > Avg: BW: (-.5) SD: (-7.5) RSD: (-14.7)
> > >
> > > Is there anything else you would like me to test/change, or shall
> > > I submit the next version (with the above macvtap changes)?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > - KK
> >
> > Something strange here, right?
> > 1. You are consistently getting >10G/s here, and even with a single
> stream?
>
> Sorry, I should have mentioned this though I had stated in my
> earlier mails. Each test result has two iterations, each of 60
> seconds, except when #netperfs is 1 for which I do 10 iteration
> (sum across 10 iterations).
So need to divide the number by 10?
> I started doing many more iterations
> for 1 netperf after finding the issue earlier with single stream.
> So the BW is only 4.5-7 Gbps.
>
> > 2. With 2 streams, is where we get < 10G/s originally. Instead of
> > doubling that we get a marginal improvement with 2 queues and
> > about 30% worse with 1 queue.
>
> (doubling happens consistently for guest -> host, but never for
> remote host) I tried 512/txqs=2 and 1024/txqs=8 to get a varied
> testing scenario. In first case, there is a slight improvement in
> BW and good reduction in SD. In the second case, only SD improves
> (though BW drops for 2 stream for some reason). In both cases,
> BW and SD improves as the number of sessions increase.
I guess this is another indication that something's wrong.
We are quite far from line rate, the fact BW does not scale
means there's some contention in the code.
> > Is your card MQ?
>
> Yes, the card is MQ. ixgbe 10g card.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - KK
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