On 11/24/2011 05:59 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 01:47:14PM +0530, Krishna Kumar wrote:
It was reported that the macvtap device selects a
different vhost (when used with multiqueue feature)
for incoming packets of a single connection. Use
packet hash first. Patch tested on MQ virtio_net.
So this is sure to address the problem, why exactly does this happen?
Ixgbe has flow director and bind queue to host cpu, so it can make sure
the packet of a flow to be handled by the same queue/cpu. So when vhost
thread moves from one host cpu to another, ixgbe would therefore send
the packet to the new cpu/queue.
Does your device spread a single flow across multiple RX queues? Would
not that cause trouble in the TCP layer?
It would seem that using the recorded queue should be faster with
less cache misses. Before we give up on that, I'd
like to understand why it's wrong. Do you know?
Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar<krkumar2@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/macvtap.c | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff -ruNp org/drivers/net/macvtap.c new/drivers/net/macvtap.c
--- org/drivers/net/macvtap.c 2011-10-22 08:38:01.000000000 +0530
+++ new/drivers/net/macvtap.c 2011-11-16 18:34:51.000000000 +0530
@@ -175,6 +175,14 @@ static struct macvtap_queue *macvtap_get
if (!numvtaps)
goto out;
+ /* Check if we can use flow to select a queue */
+ rxq = skb_get_rxhash(skb);
+ if (rxq) {
+ tap = rcu_dereference(vlan->taps[rxq % numvtaps]);
+ if (tap)
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if (likely(skb_rx_queue_recorded(skb))) {
rxq = skb_get_rx_queue(skb);
@@ -186,14 +194,6 @@ static struct macvtap_queue *macvtap_get
goto out;
}
- /* Check if we can use flow to select a queue */
- rxq = skb_get_rxhash(skb);
- if (rxq) {
- tap = rcu_dereference(vlan->taps[rxq % numvtaps]);
- if (tap)
- goto out;
- }
-
/* Everything failed - find first available queue */
for (rxq = 0; rxq< MAX_MACVTAP_QUEUES; rxq++) {
tap = rcu_dereference(vlan->taps[rxq]);
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