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From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] vhost: add Tx zero copy support
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:18:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7eeb0acd-e98d-1dcd-793f-0b5f4b74874c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1471939839-29778-1-git-send-email-yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>



On 08/23/2016 10:10 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> This patch set enables vhost Tx zero copy. The majority work goes to
> patch 4: vhost: add Tx zero copy.
>
> The basic idea of Tx zero copy is, instead of copying data from the
> desc buf, here we let the mbuf reference the desc buf addr directly.
>
> The major issue behind that is how and when to update the used ring.
> You could check the commit log of patch 4 for more details.
>
> Patch 5 introduces a new flag, RTE_VHOST_USER_TX_ZERO_COPY, to enable
> Tx zero copy, which is disabled by default.
>
> Few more TODOs are left, including handling a desc buf that is across
> two physical pages, updating release note, etc. Those will be fixed
> in later version. For now, here is a simple one that hopefully it
> shows the idea clearly.
>
> I did some quick tests, the performance gain is quite impressive.
>
> For a simple dequeue workload (running rxonly in vhost-pmd and runnin
> txonly in guest testpmd), it yields 40+% performance boost for packet
> size 1400B.
>
> For VM2VM iperf test case, it's even better: about 70% boost.

This is indeed impressive.
Somewhere else, you mention that there is a small regression with small
packets. Do you have some figures to share?

Also, with this feature OFF, do you see some regressions for both small
and bigger packets?

Thanks,
Maxime
>
> ---
> Yuanhan Liu (6):
>   vhost: simplify memory regions handling
>   vhost: get guest/host physical address mappings
>   vhost: introduce last avail idx for Tx
>   vhost: add Tx zero copy
>   vhost: add a flag to enable Tx zero copy
>   examples/vhost: add an option to enable Tx zero copy
>
>  doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst |   7 +-
>  examples/vhost/main.c               |  19 ++-
>  lib/librte_vhost/rte_virtio_net.h   |   1 +
>  lib/librte_vhost/socket.c           |   5 +
>  lib/librte_vhost/vhost.c            |  12 ++
>  lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h            | 103 +++++++++----
>  lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c       | 297 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c       | 188 +++++++++++++++++++----
>  8 files changed, 472 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)
>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-23 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-23  8:10 Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-23  8:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/6] vhost: simplify memory regions handling Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-23  9:17   ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-24  7:26   ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-08-24  7:40     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-24  7:36       ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-08-23  8:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/6] vhost: get guest/host physical address mappings Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-23  9:58   ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-23 12:32     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-23 13:25       ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-23 13:49         ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-23 14:05           ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-23  8:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/6] vhost: introduce last avail idx for Tx Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-23 12:27   ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-23  8:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/6] vhost: add Tx zero copy Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-23 14:04   ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-23 14:31     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-23 15:40       ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-23  8:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/6] vhost: add a flag to enable " Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-06  9:00   ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-09-06  9:42     ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-09-06 10:02       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-07  2:43         ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-09-06  9:55     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-07 16:00       ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-08  7:21         ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-08  7:57           ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-08-23  8:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/6] examples/vhost: add an option " Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-23  9:31   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-08-23 12:33     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-23 14:14   ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-23 14:45     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-23 14:18 ` Maxime Coquelin [this message]
2016-08-23 14:42   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] vhost: add Tx zero copy support Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-23 14:53     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-23 16:41       ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-29  8:32 ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-08-29  8:57   ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-09-23  4:11     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-09 15:20   ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-23  4:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] vhost: add dequeue " Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-23  4:13   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/7] vhost: simplify memory regions handling Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-23  4:13   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/7] vhost: get guest/host physical address mappings Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-26 20:17     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-23  4:13   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/7] vhost: introduce last avail idx for dequeue Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-23  4:13   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/7] vhost: add dequeue zero copy Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-26 20:45     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-06 14:37     ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-10-09  2:03       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-10 10:12         ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-10-10 10:14           ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-10 10:22             ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-10-10 10:40               ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-10-10 11:48               ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-23  4:13   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/7] vhost: add a flag to enable " Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-26 20:57     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-23  4:13   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/7] examples/vhost: add an option " Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-26 21:05     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-23  4:13   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 7/7] net/vhost: " Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-26 21:05     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-09  7:27   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] vhost: add dequeue zero copy support Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-09  7:27     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/7] vhost: simplify memory regions handling Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-09  7:27     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/7] vhost: get guest/host physical address mappings Yuanhan Liu
2016-11-29  3:10       ` linhaifeng
2016-11-29 13:14       ` linhaifeng
2016-10-09  7:27     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/7] vhost: introduce last avail idx for dequeue Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-09  7:27     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/7] vhost: add dequeue zero copy Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-09  7:27     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/7] vhost: add a flag to enable " Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-09  7:27     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/7] examples/vhost: add an option " Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-09  7:28     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 7/7] net/vhost: " Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-11 13:04     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] vhost: add dequeue zero copy support Xu, Qian Q
2016-10-12  7:48     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-09 10:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] vhost: add Tx " linhaifeng
2016-10-10  8:03   ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-14  7:30     ` linhaifeng

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