On 02/27/2014 03:52 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > Vlad, > > commit 6acf54f1cf0a6747bac9fea26f34cfc5a9029523 > macvtap: Add support of packet capture on macvtap device. > > causes a performance regression for iperf traffic between two KVM guests > on my s390 system. Both guests are connected via two macvtaps on the same OSA > network card. > Before that patch I get ~20 Gbit/sec between two guests, afterwards I get > ~4Gbit/sec > > Latency seems to be unchanges (uperf 1byte ping pong). > > According to ifconfig in the guest, I have ~ 1500 bytes per packet with this > patch and ~ 40000 bytes without. So for some reason this patch causes the > network stack to do segmentation. (the guest kernel stays the same, only host > kernel is changed). > > Any ideas? I am looking. It shouldn't cause addition segmentations and when I ran netperf on the code I didn't see any difference in the throughput. -vlad > > > Christian > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
