On 12/02/2015 08:36 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 01:04:03PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >> >> On 12/01/2015 10:43 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 01:17:49PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >>>> On 11/30/2015 06:44 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 03:11:29PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >>>>>>> This patch tries to poll for new added tx buffer or socket receive >>>>>>> queue for a while at the end of tx/rx processing. The maximum time >>>>>>> spent on polling were specified through a new kind of vring ioctl. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>>> One further enhancement would be to actually poll >>>>> the underlying device. This should be reasonably >>>>> straight-forward with macvtap (especially in the >>>>> passthrough mode). >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Yes, it is. I have some patches to do this by replacing >>>> skb_queue_empty() with sk_busy_loop() but for tap. >>> We probably don't want to do this unconditionally, though. >>> >>>> Tests does not show >>>> any improvement but some regression. >>> Did you add code to call sk_mark_napi_id on tap then? >>> sk_busy_loop won't do anything useful without. >> Yes I did. Probably something wrong elsewhere. > Is this for guest-to-guest? Nope. Like you said below, since it requires NAPI so it was external host to guest. > the patch to do napi > for tap is still not upstream due to minor performance > regression. Want me to repost it? Sure, I've played this a little bit in the past too. > >>>> Maybe it's better to test macvtap. >>> Same thing ... >>> > -- > 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 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
