"Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> wrote on 10/26/2010 04:39:13 PM:

(merging two posts into one)

> 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.

For external host, there is a contention among different
queues (vhosts) when packets are processed in tun/bridge,
unless I implement MQ TX for macvtap (tun/bridge?).  So
my testing shows a small improvement (1 to 1.5% average)
in BW and a rise in SD (between 10-15%).  For remote host,
I think tun/macvtap needs MQ TX support?

> > > > Results for UDP BW tests (unidirectional, sum across
> > > > 3 iterations, each iteration of 45 seconds, default
> > > > netperf, vhosts bound to cpus 0-3; no other tuning):
> > >
> > > Is binding vhost threads to CPUs really required?
> > > What happens if we let the scheduler do its job?
> >
> > Nothing drastic, I remember BW% and SD% both improved a
> > bit as a result of binding.
>
> If there's a significant improvement this would mean that
> we need to rethink the vhost-net interaction with the scheduler.

I will get a test run with and without binding and post the
results later today.

Thanks,

- KK

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