On 11/18/2014 07:05 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:37:03AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >> > On 11/17/2014 07:58 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>> > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 01:22:07PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>>>> > >> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:38:16PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>>>>>> > >>> > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 09:44:23AM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>>>>>>>> > >>>> > > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 08:56:04PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>> > > > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 06:18:18PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > Hi Michael, >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > I am playing with vhost multiqueue capability and have a question about >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > vhost multiqueue and RSS (receive side steering). My setup has Mellanox >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > ConnectX-3 NIC which supports multiqueue and RSS. Network related >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > parameters for qemu are: >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > -netdev tap,id=hn0,script=qemu-ifup.sh,vhost=on,queues=4 >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hn0,id=nic1,mq=on,vectors=10 >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > In a guest I ran "ethtool -L eth0 combined 4" to enable multiqueue. >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > I am running one tcp stream into the guest using iperf. Since there is >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > only one tcp stream I expect it to be handled by one queue only but >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > this seams to be not the case. ethtool -S on a host shows that the >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > stream is handled by one queue in the NIC, just like I would expect, >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > but in a guest all 4 virtio-input interrupt are incremented. Am I >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > > > > > missing any configuration? >>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>> > > > > >>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>> > > > > I don't see anything obviously wrong with what you describe. >>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>> > > > > Maybe, somehow, same irqfd got bound to multiple MSI vectors? >>>>>>>>> > >>>> > > > It does not look like this is what is happening judging by the way >>>>>>>>> > >>>> > > > interrupts are distributed between queues. They are not distributed >>>>>>>>> > >>>> > > > uniformly and often I see one queue gets most interrupt and others get >>>>>>>>> > >>>> > > > much less and then it changes. >>>>>>> > >>> > > >>>>>>> > >>> > > Weird. It would happen if you transmitted from multiple CPUs. >>>>>>> > >>> > > You did pin iperf to a single CPU within guest, did you not? >>>>>>> > >>> > > >>>>> > >> > No, I didn't because I didn't expect it to matter for input interrupts. >>>>> > >> > When I run iperf on a host rx queue that receives all packets depends >>>>> > >> > only on a connection itself, not on a cpu iperf is running on (I tested >>>>> > >> > that). >>> > > This really depends on the type of networking card you have >>> > > on the host, and how it's configured. >>> > > >>> > > I think you will get something more closely resembling this >>> > > behaviour if you enable RFS in host. >>> > > >>>>> > >> > When I pin iperf in a guest I do indeed see that all interrupts >>>>> > >> > are arriving to the same irq vector. Is a number after virtio-input >>>>> > >> > in /proc/interrupt any indication of a queue a packet arrived to (on >>>>> > >> > a host I can use ethtool -S to check what queue receives packets, but >>>>> > >> > unfortunately this does not work for virtio nic in a guest)? >>> > > I think it is. >>> > > >>>>> > >> > Because if >>>>> > >> > it is the way RSS works in virtio is not how it works on a host and not >>>>> > >> > what I would expect after reading about RSS. The queue a packets arrives >>>>> > >> > to should be calculated by hashing fields from a packet header only. >>> > > Yes, what virtio has is not RSS - it's an accelerated RFS really. >> > >> > Strictly speaking, not aRFS. aRFS requires a programmable filter and >> > needs driver to fill the filter on demand. For virtio-net, this is done >> > automatically in host side (tun/tap). There's no guest involvement. > Well guest affects the filter by sending tx packets. > Yes, it is. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
