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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/12] Multiqueue virtio-net
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/12] Multiqueue virtio-net |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:49:20 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 05:34:14PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> On 01/10/2013 04:44 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 11:33:25PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> >> On 01/09/2013 11:32 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 03:29:24PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 06:31:52PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> >>>>> Perf Numbers:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Two Intel Xeon 5620 with direct connected intel 82599EB
> >>>>> Host/Guest kernel: David net tree
> >>>>> vhost enabled
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - lots of improvents of both latency and cpu utilization in
> >>>>> request-reponse test
> >>>>> - get regression of guest sending small packets which because TCP tends
> >>>>> to batch
> >>>>> less when the latency were improved
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 1q/2q/4q
> >>>>> TCP_RR
> >>>>> size #sessions trans.rate norm trans.rate norm trans.rate norm
> >>>>> 1 1 9393.26 595.64 9408.18 597.34 9375.19 584.12
> >>>>> 1 20 72162.1 2214.24 129880.22 2456.13 196949.81 2298.13
> >>>>> 1 50 107513.38 2653.99 139721.93 2490.58 259713.82 2873.57
> >>>>> 1 100 126734.63 2676.54 145553.5 2406.63 265252.68 2943
> >>>>> 64 1 9453.42 632.33 9371.37 616.13 9338.19 615.97
> >>>>> 64 20 70620.03 2093.68 125155.75 2409.15 191239.91 2253.32
> >>>>> 64 50 106966 2448.29 146518.67 2514.47 242134.07 2720.91
> >>>>> 64 100 117046.35 2394.56 190153.09 2696.82 238881.29 2704.41
> >>>>> 256 1 8733.29 736.36 8701.07 680.83 8608.92 530.1
> >>>>> 256 20 69279.89 2274.45 115103.07 2299.76 144555.16 1963.53
> >>>>> 256 50 97676.02 2296.09 150719.57 2522.92 254510.5 3028.44
> >>>>> 256 100 150221.55 2949.56 197569.3 2790.92 300695.78 3494.83
> >>>>> TCP_CRR
> >>>>> size #sessions trans.rate norm trans.rate norm trans.rate norm
> >>>>> 1 1 2848.37 163.41 2230.39 130.89 2013.09 120.47
> >>>>> 1 20 23434.5 562.11 31057.43 531.07 49488.28 564.41
> >>>>> 1 50 28514.88 582.17 40494.23 605.92 60113.35 654.97
> >>>>> 1 100 28827.22 584.73 48813.25 661.6 61783.62 676.56
> >>>>> 64 1 2780.08 159.4 2201.07 127.96 2006.8 117.63
> >>>>> 64 20 23318.51 564.47 30982.44 530.24 49734.95 566.13
> >>>>> 64 50 28585.72 582.54 40576.7 610.08 60167.89 656.56
> >>>>> 64 100 28747.37 584.17 49081.87 667.87 60612.94 662
> >>>>> 256 1 2772.08 160.51 2231.84 131.05 2003.62 113.45
> >>>>> 256 20 23086.35 559.8 30929.09 528.16 48454.9 555.22
> >>>>> 256 50 28354.7 579.85 40578.31 607 60261.71 657.87
> >>>>> 256 100 28844.55 585.67 48541.86 659.08 61941.07 676.72
> >>>>> TCP_STREAM guest receiving
> >>>>> size #sessions throughput norm throughput norm throughput norm
> >>>>> 1 1 16.27 1.33 16.1 1.12 16.13 0.99
> >>>>> 1 2 33.04 2.08 32.96 2.19 32.75 1.98
> >>>>> 1 4 66.62 6.83 68.3 5.56 66.14 2.65
> >>>>> 64 1 896.55 56.67 914.02 58.14 898.9 61.56
> >>>>> 64 2 1830.46 91.02 1812.02 64.59 1835.57 66.26
> >>>>> 64 4 3626.61 142.55 3636.25 100.64 3607.46 75.03
> >>>>> 256 1 2619.49 131.23 2543.19 129.03 2618.69 132.39
> >>>>> 256 2 5136.58 203.02 5163.31 141.11 5236.51 149.4
> >>>>> 256 4 7063.99 242.83 9365.4 208.49 9421.03 159.94
> >>>>> 512 1 3592.43 165.24 3603.12 167.19 3552.5 169.57
> >>>>> 512 2 7042.62 246.59 7068.46 180.87 7258.52 186.3
> >>>>> 512 4 6996.08 241.49 9298.34 206.12 9418.52 159.33
> >>>>> 1024 1 4339.54 192.95 4370.2 191.92 4211.72 192.49
> >>>>> 1024 2 7439.45 254.77 9403.99 215.24 9120.82 222.67
> >>>>> 1024 4 7953.86 272.11 9403.87 208.23 9366.98 159.49
> >>>>> 4096 1 7696.28 272.04 7611.41 270.38 7778.71 267.76
> >>>>> 4096 2 7530.35 261.1 8905.43 246.27 8990.18 267.57
> >>>>> 4096 4 7121.6 247.02 9411.75 206.71 9654.96 184.67
> >>>>> 16384 1 7795.73 268.54 7780.94 267.2 7634.26 260.73
> >>>>> 16384 2 7436.57 255.81 9381.86 220.85 9392 220.36
> >>>>> 16384 4 7199.07 247.81 9420.96 205.87 9373.69 159.57
> >>>>> TCP_MAERTS guest sending
> >>>>> size #sessions throughput norm throughput norm throughput norm
> >>>>> 1 1 15.94 0.62 15.55 0.61 15.13 0.59
> >>>>> 1 2 36.11 0.83 32.46 0.69 32.28 0.69
> >>>>> 1 4 71.59 1 68.91 0.94 61.52 0.77
> >>>>> 64 1 630.71 22.52 622.11 22.35 605.09 21.84
> >>>>> 64 2 1442.36 30.57 1292.15 25.82 1282.67 25.55
> >>>>> 64 4 3186.79 42.59 2844.96 36.03 2529.69 30.06
> >>>>> 256 1 1760.96 58.07 1738.44 57.43 1695.99 56.19
> >>>>> 256 2 4834.23 95.19 3524.85 64.21 3511.94 64.45
> >>>>> 256 4 9324.63 145.74 8956.49 116.39 6720.17 73.86
> >>>>> 512 1 2678.03 84.1 2630.68 82.93 2636.54 82.57
> >>>>> 512 2 9368.17 195.61 9408.82 204.53 5316.3 92.99
> >>>>> 512 4 9186.34 209.68 9358.72 183.82 9489.29 160.42
> >>>>> 1024 1 3620.71 109.88 3625.54 109.83 3606.61 112.35
> >>>>> 1024 2 9429 258.32 7082.79 120.55 7403.53 134.78
> >>>>> 1024 4 9430.66 290.44 9499.29 232.31 9414.6 190.92
> >>>>> 4096 1 9339.28 296.48 9374.23 372.88 9348.76 298.49
> >>>>> 4096 2 9410.53 378.69 9412.61 286.18 9409.75 278.31
> >>>>> 4096 4 9487.35 374.1 9556.91 288.81 9441.94 221.64
> >>>>> 16384 1 9380.43 403.8 9379.78 399.13 9382.42 393.55
> >>>>> 16384 2 9367.69 406.93 9415.04 312.68 9409.29 300.9
> >>>>> 16384 4 9391.96 405.17 9695.12 310.54 9423.76 223.47
> >>>> Trying to understand the performance results:
> >>>>
> >>>> What is the host device configuration? tap + bridge?
> >> Yes.
> >>>> Did you use host CPU affinity for the vhost threads?
> >> I use numactl to pin cpu threads and vhost threads in the same numa node.
> >>>> Can multiqueue tap take advantage of multiqueue host NICs or is
> >>>> virtio-net multiqueue unaware of the physical NIC multiqueue
> >>>> capabilities?
> >> Tap is unware of the physical multiqueue NIC, but we can benefit from it
> >> since we use multiple vhost threads.
> > I wonder if it makes a difference to bind tap queues to physical NIC
> > queues. Maybe this is only possible in macvlan or can you preset the
> > queue index of outgoing skbs so the network stack doesn't recalculate
> > the flow?
>
> There are some issues here:
>
> - For tap, we know nothing about the physical card, especially how many
> queues it has.
> - We can present the queue index information in the skb. But there's not
> a standard txq selection / rxq smp affinity setting method for
> multiqueue card driver in linux. For example, ixgbe and efx use
> completely different method. So we can easily find a method for ixgbe
> but not all others.
It's an interesting problem because it seems like doing multiqueue
through the entire stack would be more efficient than doing multiqueue
twice at different layers.
I wonder how much of a difference it can make.
Stefan
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/12] Multiqueue virtio-net, Anthony Liguori, 2013/01/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/12] Multiqueue virtio-net, Jason Wang, 2013/01/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/12] Multiqueue virtio-net, Anthony Liguori, 2013/01/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/12] Multiqueue virtio-net, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2013/01/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/12] Multiqueue virtio-net, Anthony Liguori, 2013/01/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/12] Multiqueue virtio-net, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2013/01/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/12] Multiqueue virtio-net, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2013/01/17