Re: Performance test result between virtio_pci MSI-X disable and enable

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yes, i patch qemu as well.

and i found the address of second vf is not in mmio range. the first
one is fine.

2010/12/1 Yang, Sheng <sheng.yang@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wednesday 01 December 2010 16:41:38 lidong chen wrote:
>> I used sr-iov, give each vm 2 vf.
>> after apply the patch, and i found performence is the same.
>>
>> the reason is in function msix_mmio_write, mostly addr is not in mmio
>> range.
>
> Did you patch qemu as well? You can see it's impossible for kernel part to work
> alone...
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg44368.html
>
> --
> regards
> Yang, Sheng
>
>
>>
>> static int msix_mmio_write(struct kvm_io_device *this, gpa_t addr, int len,
>>                          const void *val)
>> {
>>       struct kvm_assigned_dev_kernel *adev =
>>                       container_of(this, struct kvm_assigned_dev_kernel,
>>                                    msix_mmio_dev);
>>       int idx, r = 0;
>>       unsigned long new_val = *(unsigned long *)val;
>>
>>       mutex_lock(&adev->kvm->lock);
>>       if (!msix_mmio_in_range(adev, addr, len)) {
>>               // return here.
>>                  r = -EOPNOTSUPP;
>>               goto out;
>>       }
>>
>> i printk the value:
>> addr             start           end           len
>> F004C00C   F0044000  F0044030     4
>>
>> 00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 10ed (rev 01)
>>       Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 000c
>>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>>       Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
>> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>>       Latency: 0
>>       Region 0: Memory at f0040000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>>       Region 3: Memory at f0044000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>>       Capabilities: [40] MSI-X: Enable+ Mask- TabSize=3
>>               Vector table: BAR=3 offset=00000000
>>               PBA: BAR=3 offset=00002000
>>
>> 00:07.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 10ed (rev 01)
>>       Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 000c
>>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>>       Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
>> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>>       Latency: 0
>>       Region 0: Memory at f0048000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>>       Region 3: Memory at f004c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>>       Capabilities: [40] MSI-X: Enable+ Mask- TabSize=3
>>               Vector table: BAR=3 offset=00000000
>>               PBA: BAR=3 offset=00002000
>>
>>
>>
>> +static bool msix_mmio_in_range(struct kvm_assigned_dev_kernel *adev,
>> +                           gpa_t addr, int len)
>> +{
>> +     gpa_t start, end;
>> +
>> +     BUG_ON(adev->msix_mmio_base == 0);
>> +     start = adev->msix_mmio_base;
>> +     end = adev->msix_mmio_base + PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_SIZE *
>> +             adev->msix_max_entries_nr;
>> +     if (addr >= start && addr + len <= end)
>> +             return true;
>> +
>> +     return false;
>> +}
>>
>> 2010/11/30 Yang, Sheng <sheng.yang@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > On Tuesday 30 November 2010 17:10:11 lidong chen wrote:
>> >> sr-iov also meet this problem, MSIX mask waste a lot of cpu resource.
>> >>
>> >> I test kvm with sriov, which the vf driver could not disable msix.
>> >> so the host os waste a lot of cpu.  cpu rate of host os is 90%.
>> >>
>> >> then I test xen with sriov, there ara also a lot of vm exits caused by
>> >> MSIX mask.
>> >> but the cpu rate of xen and domain0 is less than kvm. cpu rate of xen
>> >> and domain0 is 60%.
>> >>
>> >> without sr-iov, the cpu rate of xen and domain0 is higher than kvm.
>> >>
>> >> so i think the problem is kvm waste more cpu resource to deal with MSIX
>> >> mask. and we can see how xen deal with MSIX mask.
>> >>
>> >> if this problem sloved, maybe with MSIX enabled, the performace is
>> >> better.
>> >
>> > Please refer to my posted patches for this issue.
>> >
>> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg44992.html
>> >
>> > --
>> > regards
>> > Yang, Sheng
>> >
>> >> 2010/11/23 Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> >> > On 11/23/2010 09:27 AM, lidong chen wrote:
>> >> >> can you tell me something about this problem.
>> >> >> thanks.
>> >> >
>> >> > Which problem?
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
>> >> > signature is too narrow to contain.
>
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