This series tries to add basic busy polling for vhost net. The idea is
simple: at the end of tx/rx processing, busy polling for new tx added
descriptor and rx receive socket for a while. The maximum number of
time (in us) could be spent on busy polling was specified ioctl.
Test A were done through:
- 50 us as busy loop timeout
- Netperf 2.6
- Two machines with back to back connected mlx4
- Guest with 1 vcpus and 1 queue
Results:
- Obvious improvements (%5 - 20%) for latency (TCP_RR).
- Get a better or minor regression on most of the TX tests, but see
some regression on 4096 size.
- Except for 8 sessions of 4096 size RX, have a better or same
performance.
- CPU utilization were incrased as expected.
TCP_RR:
size/session/+thu%/+normalize%/+tpkts%/+rpkts%/+ioexits%/
1/ 1/ +8%/ -32%/ +8%/ +8%/ +7%
1/ 50/ +7%/ -19%/ +7%/ +7%/ +1%
1/ 100/ +5%/ -21%/ +5%/ +5%/ 0%
1/ 200/ +5%/ -21%/ +7%/ +7%/ +1%
64/ 1/ +11%/ -29%/ +11%/ +11%/ +10%
64/ 50/ +7%/ -19%/ +8%/ +8%/ +2%
64/ 100/ +8%/ -18%/ +9%/ +9%/ +2%
64/ 200/ +6%/ -19%/ +6%/ +6%/ 0%
256/ 1/ +7%/ -33%/ +7%/ +7%/ +6%
256/ 50/ +7%/ -18%/ +7%/ +7%/ 0%
256/ 100/ +9%/ -18%/ +8%/ +8%/ +2%
256/ 200/ +9%/ -18%/ +10%/ +10%/ +3%
1024/ 1/ +20%/ -28%/ +20%/ +20%/ +19%
1024/ 50/ +8%/ -18%/ +9%/ +9%/ +2%
1024/ 100/ +6%/ -19%/ +5%/ +5%/ 0%
1024/ 200/ +8%/ -18%/ +9%/ +9%/ +2%
Guest TX:
size/session/+thu%/+normalize%/+tpkts%/+rpkts%/+ioexits%/
64/ 1/ -5%/ -28%/ +11%/ +12%/ +10%
64/ 4/ -2%/ -26%/ +13%/ +13%/ +13%
64/ 8/ -6%/ -29%/ +9%/ +10%/ +10%
512/ 1/ +15%/ -7%/ +13%/ +11%/ +3%
512/ 4/ +17%/ -6%/ +18%/ +13%/ +11%
512/ 8/ +14%/ -7%/ +13%/ +7%/ +7%
1024/ 1/ +27%/ -2%/ +26%/ +29%/ +12%
1024/ 4/ +8%/ -9%/ +6%/ +1%/ +6%
1024/ 8/ +41%/ +12%/ +34%/ +20%/ -3%
4096/ 1/ -22%/ -21%/ -36%/ +81%/+1360%
4096/ 4/ -57%/ -58%/ +286%/ +15%/+2074%
4096/ 8/ +67%/ +70%/ -45%/ -8%/ +63%
16384/ 1/ -2%/ -5%/ +5%/ -3%/ +80%
16384/ 4/ 0%/ 0%/ 0%/ +4%/ +138%
16384/ 8/ 0%/ 0%/ 0%/ +1%/ +41%
65535/ 1/ -3%/ -6%/ +2%/ +11%/ +113%
65535/ 4/ -2%/ -1%/ -2%/ -3%/ +484%
65535/ 8/ 0%/ +1%/ 0%/ +2%/ +40%
Guest RX:
size/session/+thu%/+normalize%/+tpkts%/+rpkts%/+ioexits%/
64/ 1/ +31%/ -3%/ +8%/ +8%/ +8%
64/ 4/ +11%/ -17%/ +13%/ +14%/ +15%
64/ 8/ +4%/ -23%/ +11%/ +11%/ +12%
512/ 1/ +24%/ 0%/ +18%/ +14%/ -8%
512/ 4/ +4%/ -15%/ +6%/ +5%/ +6%
512/ 8/ +26%/ 0%/ +21%/ +10%/ +3%
1024/ 1/ +88%/ +47%/ +69%/ +44%/ -30%
1024/ 4/ +18%/ -5%/ +19%/ +16%/ +2%
1024/ 8/ +15%/ -4%/ +13%/ +8%/ +1%
4096/ 1/ -3%/ -5%/ +2%/ -2%/ +41%
4096/ 4/ +2%/ +3%/ -20%/ -14%/ -24%
4096/ 8/ -43%/ -45%/ +69%/ -24%/ +94%
16384/ 1/ -3%/ -11%/ +23%/ +7%/ +42%
16384/ 4/ -3%/ -3%/ -4%/ +5%/ +115%
16384/ 8/ -1%/ 0%/ -1%/ -3%/ +32%
65535/ 1/ +1%/ 0%/ +2%/ 0%/ +66%
65535/ 4/ -1%/ -1%/ 0%/ +4%/ +492%
65535/ 8/ 0%/ -1%/ -1%/ +4%/ +38%
Changes from V3:
- drop single_task_running()
- use cpu_relax_lowlatency() instead of cpu_relax()
Changes from V2:
- rename vhost_vq_more_avail() to vhost_vq_avail_empty(). And return
false we __get_user() fails.
- do not bother premmptions/timers for good path.
- use vhost_vring_state as ioctl parameter instead of reinveting a new
one.
- add the unit of timeout (us) to the comment of new added ioctls
Changes from V1:
- remove the buggy vq_error() in vhost_vq_more_avail().
- leave vhost_enable_notify() untouched.
Changes from RFC V3:
- small tweak on the code to avoid multiple duplicate conditions in
critical path when busy loop is not enabled.
- add the test result of multiple VMs
Changes from RFC V2:
- poll also at the end of rx handling
- factor out the polling logic and optimize the code a little bit
- add two ioctls to get and set the busy poll timeout
- test on ixgbe (which can give more stable and reproducable numbers)
instead of mlx4.
Changes from RFC V1:
- add a comment for vhost_has_work() to explain why it could be
lockless
- add param description for busyloop_timeout
- split out the busy polling logic into a new helper
- check and exit the loop when there's a pending signal
- disable preemption during busy looping to make sure lock_clock() was
correctly used.
Jason Wang (3):
vhost: introduce vhost_has_work()
vhost: introduce vhost_vq_avail_empty()
vhost_net: basic polling support
drivers/vhost/net.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 3 ++
include/uapi/linux/vhost.h | 6 ++++
4 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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1.8.3.1
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