Hi:
This series tries to implement tx batching support for vhost. This was
done by using MSG_MORE as a hint for under layer socket. The backend
(e.g tap) can then batch the packets temporarily in a list and
submit it all once the number of bacthed exceeds a limitation.
Tests shows obvious improvement on guest pktgen over over
mlx4(noqueue) on host:
Mpps -+%
rx_batched=0 0.90 +0%
rx_batched=4 0.97 +7.8%
rx_batched=8 0.97 +7.8%
rx_batched=16 0.98 +8.9%
rx_batched=32 1.03 +14.4%
rx_batched=48 1.09 +21.1%
rx_batched=64 1.02 +13.3%
Changes from V2:
- remove uselss queue limitation check (and we don't drop any packet now)
Changes from V1:
- drop NAPI handler since we don't use NAPI now
- fix the issues that may exceeds max pending of zerocopy
- more improvement on available buffer detection
- move the limitation of batched pacekts from vhost to tuntap
Please review.
Thanks
Jason Wang (3):
vhost: better detection of available buffers
vhost_net: tx batching
tun: rx batching
drivers/net/tun.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
drivers/vhost/net.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 8 ++++++--
3 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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2.7.4
