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From: Jens Freimann <jfreimann@redhat.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: tiwei.bie@intel.com, maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, Gavin.Hu@arm.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 0/9] implement packed virtqueues
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 16:29:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181203152925.sofjto3toduxlpd6@jenstp.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181203141515.28368-1-jfreimann@redhat.com>

On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 03:15:06PM +0100, Jens Freimann wrote:
>
>This is a basic implementation of packed virtqueues as specified in the
>Virtio 1.1 draft. A compiled version of the current draft is available
>at https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-docs.git (or as .pdf at
>https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-docs/blob/master/virtio-v1.1-packed-wd10.pdf
>
>A packed virtqueue is different from a split virtqueue in that it
>consists of only a single descriptor ring that replaces available and
>used ring, index and descriptor pointers.
>
>Each descriptor is readable and writable and has a flags field. These flags
>will mark if a descriptor is available or used.  To detect new available descriptors
>even after the ring has wrapped, device and driver each have a
>single-bit wrap counter that is flipped from 0 to 1 and vice versa every time
>the last descriptor in the ring is used/made available.
>
>With this patch set I see a slight performance drop compared to split
>virtqueues. I tested according to
>http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/howto/pvp_reference_benchmark.html and I see
>a small performance drop of 3-4 percent in PVP and and similar numbers

It's actually bigger with mergeable rx buffers turned off. I measured
13% less mpps with packed virtqueues.

regards,
Jens 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-03 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-03 14:15 Jens Freimann
2018-12-03 14:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 1/9] net/virtio: vring init for packed queues Jens Freimann
2018-12-03 14:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 2/9] net/virtio: add packed virtqueue defines Jens Freimann
2018-12-03 14:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 3/9] net/virtio: add packed virtqueue helpers Jens Freimann
2018-12-05 11:27   ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-12-03 14:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 4/9] net/virtio: dump packed virtqueue data Jens Freimann
2018-12-03 14:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 5/9] net/virtio: implement transmit path for packed queues Jens Freimann
2018-12-05 11:16   ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-12-03 14:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 6/9] net/virtio: implement receive " Jens Freimann
2018-12-05 11:28   ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-12-05 12:19     ` Jens Freimann
2018-12-05 22:52     ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-12-03 14:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 7/9] net/virtio: add virtio send command packed queue support Jens Freimann
2018-12-03 14:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 8/9] net/virtio-user: add option to use packed queues Jens Freimann
2018-12-03 14:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 9/9] net/virtio: enable packed virtqueues by default Jens Freimann
2018-12-03 15:29 ` Jens Freimann [this message]
2018-12-03 15:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 0/9] implement packed virtqueues Maxime Coquelin

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