Re: [PATCH] vhost-net: set packet weight of tx polling to 2 * vq size

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 04:09:20AM +0000, haibinzhang(张海斌) wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 08:22:37AM +0000, haibinzhang(张海斌) wrote:
> > > handle_tx will delay rx for tens or even hundreds of milliseconds when tx busy
> > > polling udp packets with small length(e.g. 1byte udp payload), because setting
> > > VHOST_NET_WEIGHT takes into account only sent-bytes but no single packet length.
> > > 
> > > Ping-Latencies shown below were tested between two Virtual Machines using
> > > netperf (UDP_STREAM, len=1), and then another machine pinged the client:
> > > 
> > > Packet-Weight      Ping-Latencies(millisecond)
> > >                    min      avg       max
> > > Origin           3.319   18.489    57.303
> > > 64               1.643    2.021     2.552
> > > 128              1.825    2.600     3.224
> > > 256              1.997    2.710     4.295
> > > 512              1.860    3.171     4.631
> > > 1024             2.002    4.173     9.056
> > > 2048             2.257    5.650     9.688
> > > 4096             2.093    8.508    15.943
> >
> > And this is with Q size 256 right?
> 
> Yes. Ping-latencies with 512 VQ size show below.
> 
> Packet-Weight      Ping-Latencies(millisecond)
>                     min      avg       max
> Origin           6.357   29.177    66.245
> 64               2.798    3.614     4.403
> 128              2.861    3.820     4.775
> 256              3.008    4.018     4.807
> 512              3.254    4.523     5.824
> 1024             3.079    5.335     7.747
> 2048             3.944    8.201     12.762
> 4096             4.158   11.057    19.985
> 
> We will submit again. Is there anything else?

Seems pretty consistent, a small dip at 2 VQ sizes.


Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

> >
> > > Ring size is a hint from device about a burst size it can tolerate. Based on
> > > benchmarks, set the weight to 2 * vq size.
> > > 
> > > To evaluate this change, another tests were done using netperf(RR, TX) between
> > > two machines with Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6133 CPU @ 2.50GHz, and vq size was
> > > tweaked through qemu. Results shown below does not show obvious changes.
> >
> > What I asked for is ping-latency with different VQ sizes,
> > streaming below does not show anything.
> >
> > > vq size=256 TCP_RR                vq size=512 TCP_RR
> > > size/sessions/+thu%/+normalize%   size/sessions/+thu%/+normalize%
> > >    1/       1/  -7%/        -2%      1/       1/   0%/        -2%
> > >    1/       4/  +1%/         0%      1/       4/  +1%/         0%
> > >    1/       8/  +1%/        -2%      1/       8/   0%/        +1%
> > >   64/       1/  -6%/         0%     64/       1/  +7%/        +3%
> > >   64/       4/   0%/        +2%     64/       4/  -1%/        +1%
> > >   64/       8/   0%/         0%     64/       8/  -1%/        -2%
> > >  256/       1/  -3%/        -4%    256/       1/  -4%/        -2%
> > >  256/       4/  +3%/        +4%    256/       4/  +1%/        +2%
> > >  256/       8/  +2%/         0%    256/       8/  +1%/        -1%
> > > 
> > > vq size=256 UDP_RR                vq size=512 UDP_RR
> > > size/sessions/+thu%/+normalize%   size/sessions/+thu%/+normalize%
> > >    1/       1/  -5%/        +1%      1/       1/  -3%/        -2%
> > >    1/       4/  +4%/        +1%      1/       4/  -2%/        +2%
> > >    1/       8/  -1%/        -1%      1/       8/  -1%/         0%
> > >   64/       1/  -2%/        -3%     64/       1/  +1%/        +1%
> > >   64/       4/  -5%/        -1%     64/       4/  +2%/         0%
> > >   64/       8/   0%/        -1%     64/       8/  -2%/        +1%
> > >  256/       1/  +7%/        +1%    256/       1/  -7%/         0%
> > >  256/       4/  +1%/        +1%    256/       4/  -3%/        -4%
> > >  256/       8/  +2%/        +2%    256/       8/  +1%/        +1%
> > > 
> > > vq size=256 TCP_STREAM            vq size=512 TCP_STREAM
> > > size/sessions/+thu%/+normalize%   size/sessions/+thu%/+normalize%
> > >   64/       1/   0%/        -3%     64/       1/   0%/         0%
> > >   64/       4/  +3%/        -1%     64/       4/  -2%/        +4%
> > >   64/       8/  +9%/        -4%     64/       8/  -1%/        +2%
> > >  256/       1/  +1%/        -4%    256/       1/  +1%/        +1%
> > >  256/       4/  -1%/        -1%    256/       4/  -3%/         0%
> > >  256/       8/  +7%/        +5%    256/       8/  -3%/         0%
> > >  512/       1/  +1%/         0%    512/       1/  -1%/        -1%
> > >  512/       4/  +1%/        -1%    512/       4/   0%/         0%
> > >  512/       8/  +7%/        -5%    512/       8/  +6%/        -1%
> > > 1024/       1/   0%/        -1%   1024/       1/   0%/        +1%
> > > 1024/       4/  +3%/         0%   1024/       4/  +1%/         0%
> > > 1024/       8/  +8%/        +5%   1024/       8/  -1%/         0%
> > > 2048/       1/  +2%/        +2%   2048/       1/  -1%/         0%
> > > 2048/       4/  +1%/         0%   2048/       4/   0%/        -1%
> > > 2048/       8/  -2%/         0%   2048/       8/   5%/        -1%
> > > 4096/       1/  -2%/         0%   4096/       1/  -2%/         0%
> > > 4096/       4/  +2%/         0%   4096/       4/   0%/         0%
> > > 4096/       8/  +9%/        -2%   4096/       8/  -5%/        -1%
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Haibin Zhang <haibinzhang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Yunfang Tai <yunfangtai@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Lidong Chen <lidongchen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Code is fine but I'd like to see validation of the heuristic
> > 2*vq->num with another vq size.
> >
> >
> >
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/vhost/net.c | 8 +++++++-
> > >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> > > index 8139bc70ad7d..3563a305cc0a 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> > > @@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(experimental_zcopytx, "Enable Zero Copy TX;"
> > >   * Using this limit prevents one virtqueue from starving others. */
> > >  #define VHOST_NET_WEIGHT 0x80000
> > >  
> > > +/* Max number of packets transferred before requeueing the job.
> > > + * Using this limit prevents one virtqueue from starving rx. */
> > > +#define VHOST_NET_PKT_WEIGHT(vq) ((vq)->num * 2)
> > > +
> > >  /* MAX number of TX used buffers for outstanding zerocopy */
> > >  #define VHOST_MAX_PEND 128
> > >  #define VHOST_GOODCOPY_LEN 256
> > > @@ -473,6 +477,7 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
> > >  	struct socket *sock;
> > >  	struct vhost_net_ubuf_ref *uninitialized_var(ubufs);
> > >  	bool zcopy, zcopy_used;
> > > +	int sent_pkts = 0;
> > >  
> > >  	mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
> > >  	sock = vq->private_data;
> > > @@ -580,7 +585,8 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
> > >  		else
> > >  			vhost_zerocopy_signal_used(net, vq);
> > >  		vhost_net_tx_packet(net);
> > > -		if (unlikely(total_len >= VHOST_NET_WEIGHT)) {
> > > +		if (unlikely(total_len >= VHOST_NET_WEIGHT) ||
> > > +		    unlikely(++sent_pkts >= VHOST_NET_PKT_WEIGHT(vq))) {
> > >  			vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
> > >  			break;
> > >  		}
> > > -- 
> > > 2.12.3
> > > 
> 



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