On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 02:42:36PM +0800, Lan, Tianyu wrote: > > On 12/2/2015 10:31 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >>>We hope > >>>to find a better way to make SRIOV NIC work in these cases and this is > >>>worth to do since SRIOV NIC provides better network performance compared > >>>with PV NIC. > >If this is a performance optimization as the above implies, > >you need to include some numbers, and document how did > >you implement the switch and how did you measure the performance. > > > > OK. Some ideas of my patches come from paper "CompSC: Live Migration with > Pass-through Devices". > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/vee_2012/papers/p109.pdf > > It compared performance data between the solution of switching PV and VF and > VF migration.(Chapter 7: Discussion) >
I haven't read it, but I would like to note you can't rely on research papers. If you propose a patch to be merged you need to measure what is its actual effect on modern linux at the end of 2015. > >>>Current patches have some issues. I think we can find > >>>solution for them andimprove them step by step. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
