netdev - Re: Regression in throughput between kvm guests over virtual bridge

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Message-ID: <cd0e04bd-1fe2-c0b6-bf49-25e7e5151613@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:00:56 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     Wei Xu <wexu@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     mst@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: Regression in throughput between kvm guests over virtual bridge



On 2017年10月31日 15:07, Wei Xu wrote:
>>> BTW, did you see any improvement when running pktgen from the host if no
>>> regression was found? Since this can be reproduced with only 1 vcpu for
>>> guest, may you try this bind? This might help simplify the problem.
>>>    vcpu0  -> cpu2
>>>    vhost  -> cpu3
>>>    pktgen -> cpu1
>>>
>> Yes -- I ran the pktgen test from host to guest with the binding
>> described.  I see an approx 5% increase in throughput from 4.12->4.13.
>> Some numbers:
>>
>> host-4.12: 1384486.2pps 663.8MB/sec
>> host-4.13: 1434598.6pps 688.2MB/sec
> That's great, at least we are aligned in this case.
>
> Jason, any thoughts on this?
>
> Wei
>

Good news is that pps is increased. I think the first step is moving 
things a little bit ahead by reposting the optimization of tx polling.

I will post a new version soon.

Thanks