= Features/MQ virtio net = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MQ_virtio_net Feature owner(s): Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Multiqueue virtio-net provides an approach that scales the network performance as the increasing of the number of vcpus by allowing them to transfer packets through more than one virtqueue pairs. == Detailed description == Today's high-end server have more processors, guests running on them tend have an increasing number of vcpus. The scale of the protocol stack in guest in restricted because of the single queue virtio-net: * The network performance does not scale as the number of vcpus increasing: Guest can not transmit or retrieve packets in parallel as virtio-net have only one TX and RX, virtio-net drivers must be synchronized before sending and receiving packets. Even through there's software technology to spread the loads into different processor such as RFS, such kind of method is only for transmission and is really expensive in guest as they depends on IPI which may brings extra overhead in virtualized environment. * Multiqueue nic were more common used and is well supported by linux kernel, but current virtual nic can not utilize the multi queue support: the tap and virtio-net backend must serialize the co-current transmission/receiving request comes from different cpus. In order the remove those bottlenecks, we must allow the paralleled packet processing by introducing multi queue support for both back-end and guest drivers. Ideally, we may let the packet handing be done by processors in parallel without interleaving and scale the network performance as the number of vcpus increasing. The following parts were changed to parallize the packet processing: * tuntap: convert the driver to multiqueue by allowing multiple socket/fd to be attached to the device, each socket/fd exposed by the device could be treated as a queue. * qemu: * net: Add multiple queue infrastructure to qemu * let qemu can create multiple vhost threads for a virtio-net device * userspace multiple queue virtio-net * guest driver: let the driver can use multiple virtqueues to do packet sending/receiving. _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
