On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 18:43 -0700, Shirley Ma wrote: > > Also I found some vhost performance regression on the new > > kernel with tuning. I used to get 9.4Gb/s, now I couldn't get it. > > I forgot to mention the kernel I used 2.6.36 one. And I found the > native > host BW is limited to 8.0Gb/s, so the regression might come from the > device driver not vhost. Something is very interesting, when binding ixgbe interrupts to cpu1, and running netperf/netserver on cpu0, the native host to host performance is still around 8.0Gb/s, however, the macvtap zero copy result is 9.0Gb/s. root@localhost ~]# netperf -H 192.168.10.74 -c -C -l60 -T0,0 -- -m 64K TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.10.74 (192.168.. 10.74) port 0 AF_INET : cpu bind Recv Send Send Utilization Service Demand Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local remote bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s % S % S us/KB us/KB 87380 16384 65536 60.00 9013.59 53.01 8.21 0.963 0.597 Below is perf top output: 578.00 6.5% copy_user_generic_string 381.00 4.3% vmx_vcpu_run 250.00 2.8% schedule 207.00 2.3% vhost_get_vq_desc 204.00 2.3% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave 197.00 2.2% translate_desc 193.00 2.2% memcpy_fromiovec 162.00 1.8% gup_pte_range We can compare your results with mine to see any difference. Thanks Shirley -- 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