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Date:	Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:14:59 +0200
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, arnd@...db.de,
	davem@...emloft.net, levinsasha928@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvtap: Fix macvtap_get_queue to use rxhash first

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 09:39:11AM +0530, Krishna Kumar2 wrote:
> Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> wrote on 11/25/2011 08:51:57 AM:
> >
> > My description is not clear again :(
> > I mean the same vhost thead:
> >
> > vhost thread #0 transmits packets of flow A on processor M
> > ...
> > vhost thread #0 move to another process N and start to transmit packets
> > of flow A
> 
> Thanks for clarifying. Yes, binding vhosts to CPU's
> makes the incoming packet go to the same vhost each
> time.

Interesting, but still not sure why.
What if you bind the VCPUs but not the vhost thread?

> BTW, are you doing any binding and/or irqbalance
> when you run your tests? I am not running either at
> this time, but thought both might be useful.
> 
> - KK

Either pinning or irqbalance is a good idea.
Doing neither means you get a random CPU handling
interrupts.

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MST
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