Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/4] net: vhost: improve performance when enable busyloop

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On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 01:12:59PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2018年07月11日 11:49, Tonghao Zhang wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 10:56 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 2018年07月04日 12:31, xiangxia.m.yue@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > 
> > > > This patches improve the guest receive and transmit performance.
> > > > On the handle_tx side, we poll the sock receive queue at the same time.
> > > > handle_rx do that in the same way.
> > > > 
> > > > For more performance report, see patch 4.
> > > > 
> > > > v4 -> v5:
> > > > fix some issues
> > > > 
> > > > v3 -> v4:
> > > > fix some issues
> > > > 
> > > > v2 -> v3:
> > > > This patches are splited from previous big patch:
> > > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/934673/
> > > > 
> > > > Tonghao Zhang (4):
> > > >     vhost: lock the vqs one by one
> > > >     net: vhost: replace magic number of lock annotation
> > > >     net: vhost: factor out busy polling logic to vhost_net_busy_poll()
> > > >     net: vhost: add rx busy polling in tx path
> > > > 
> > > >    drivers/vhost/net.c   | 108 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> > > >    drivers/vhost/vhost.c |  24 ++++-------
> > > >    2 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > Hi, any progress on the new version?
> > > 
> > > I plan to send a new series of packed virtqueue support of vhost. If you
> > > plan to send it soon, I can wait. Otherwise, I will send my series.
> > I rebase the codes. and find there is no improvement anymore, the
> > patches of  makita  may solve the problem. jason you may send your
> > patches, and I will do some research on busypoll.
> 
> I see. Maybe you can try some bi-directional traffic.
> 
> Btw, lots of optimizations could be done for busy polling. E.g integrating
> with host NAPI busy polling or a 100% busy polling vhost_net. You're welcome
> to work or propose new ideas.
> 
> Thanks

It seems clear we do need adaptive polling.  The difficulty with NAPI
polling is it can't access guest memory easily. But maybe
get_user_pages on the polled memory+NAPI polling can work.

> > 
> > > Thanks
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