On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:38:16PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 09:44:23AM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 08:56:04PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 06:18:18PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > > > Hi Michael, > > > > > > > > I am playing with vhost multiqueue capability and have a question about > > > > vhost multiqueue and RSS (receive side steering). My setup has Mellanox > > > > ConnectX-3 NIC which supports multiqueue and RSS. Network related > > > > parameters for qemu are: > > > > > > > > -netdev tap,id=hn0,script=qemu-ifup.sh,vhost=on,queues=4 > > > > -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hn0,id=nic1,mq=on,vectors=10 > > > > > > > > In a guest I ran "ethtool -L eth0 combined 4" to enable multiqueue. > > > > > > > > I am running one tcp stream into the guest using iperf. Since there is > > > > only one tcp stream I expect it to be handled by one queue only but > > > > this seams to be not the case. ethtool -S on a host shows that the > > > > stream is handled by one queue in the NIC, just like I would expect, > > > > but in a guest all 4 virtio-input interrupt are incremented. Am I > > > > missing any configuration? > > > > > > I don't see anything obviously wrong with what you describe. > > > Maybe, somehow, same irqfd got bound to multiple MSI vectors? > > It does not look like this is what is happening judging by the way > > interrupts are distributed between queues. They are not distributed > > uniformly and often I see one queue gets most interrupt and others get > > much less and then it changes. > > Weird. It would happen if you transmitted from multiple CPUs. > You did pin iperf to a single CPU within guest, did you not? > No, I didn't because I didn't expect it to matter for input interrupts. When I run iperf on a host rx queue that receives all packets depends only on a connection itself, not on a cpu iperf is running on (I tested that). When I pin iperf in a guest I do indeed see that all interrupts are arriving to the same irq vector. Is a number after virtio-input in /proc/interrupt any indication of a queue a packet arrived to (on a host I can use ethtool -S to check what queue receives packets, but unfortunately this does not work for virtio nic in a guest)? Because if it is the way RSS works in virtio is not how it works on a host and not what I would expect after reading about RSS. The queue a packets arrives to should be calculated by hashing fields from a packet header only. -- Gleb. -- 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
