From: "Wang, Zhihong" <zhihong.wang@intel.com>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
"maxime.coquelin@redhat.com" <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
"thomas.monjalon@6wind.com" <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/6] vhost: rewrite enqueue
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 03:29:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8F6C2BD409508844A0EFC19955BE09414E7ABA3A@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160918141914.GI23158@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2016 10:19 PM
> To: Wang, Zhihong <zhihong.wang@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com;
> thomas.monjalon@6wind.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] vhost: rewrite enqueue
>
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 11:39:24PM -0400, Zhihong Wang wrote:
> > This patch implements the vhost logic from scratch into a single function
> > designed for high performance and better maintainability.
>
> As always, your commit log just states what have been done, but doesn't
> tell why such changes have been made. For example, you said "it's designed
> for high performance", then you'd better explain why your version would
> introduce high performance. You need a reason, as well as some numbers
> (percent change) to prove it: it's not that right to keep the numbers
> inside: I'm sure people outside intel are also willing and happy to know
> those numbers.
>
> For this patch, I think it's more about the maintainability improvement
> but not performance: the performance tunning patches are done later
> after all.
>
> Another example is, in patch 6, you said "It reduces CPU pipeline stall
> cycles significantly", but you didn't say why there is pipeline stall
> before and why your patch reduces it.
>
> All those are important things that deserves some explanation. So, I'd
> ask you to re-visit all your patches in this set, to think what you
> could add to make the commit better and more informative.
Okay. I'll add more detailed commit log.
>
> Besides that, I think this patchset looks fine to me. I may just need
> another time to look it more carefully, then I think I can merge (v6).
>
> BTW, thanks for the great work!
>
> --yliu
>
> > This is the baseline version of the new code, more optimization will be
> > added in the following patches in this patch set.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang@intel.com>
> > ---
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-19 3:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 140+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-16 3:50 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] optimize vhost enqueue Zhihong Wang
2016-08-16 13:59 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-17 1:45 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-08-17 2:38 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-17 6:41 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-08-17 9:17 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-17 9:51 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-18 13:44 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-08-17 10:07 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-08-18 6:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] vhost: optimize enqueue Zhihong Wang
2016-08-18 6:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] vhost: rewrite enqueue Zhihong Wang
2016-08-19 2:39 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-19 7:07 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-08-18 6:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] vhost: remove obsolete Zhihong Wang
2016-08-19 2:32 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-19 7:08 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-08-18 6:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/6] vhost: remove useless volatile Zhihong Wang
2016-08-18 6:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] vhost: add desc prefetch Zhihong Wang
2016-08-18 6:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] vhost: batch update used ring Zhihong Wang
2016-08-18 6:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] vhost: optimize cache access Zhihong Wang
2016-08-19 5:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/5] vhost: optimize enqueue Zhihong Wang
2016-08-19 5:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/5] vhost: rewrite enqueue Zhihong Wang
2016-08-22 9:35 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-23 2:27 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-08-25 4:00 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-19 5:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/5] vhost: remove useless volatile Zhihong Wang
2016-08-19 5:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/5] vhost: add desc prefetch Zhihong Wang
2016-08-19 5:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/5] vhost: batch update used ring Zhihong Wang
2016-08-25 3:48 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-25 5:19 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-08-19 5:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/5] vhost: optimize cache access Zhihong Wang
2016-08-22 8:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/5] vhost: optimize enqueue Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-22 10:01 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-22 10:35 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-08-24 3:37 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-08-23 2:31 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-08-23 10:43 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-08-23 12:16 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-08-23 12:22 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-23 2:15 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-21 8:50 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-09-21 9:27 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-21 12:54 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-09-22 2:11 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-22 2:29 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-22 5:47 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-09-22 6:58 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-22 9:01 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-09-22 10:04 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-22 14:41 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-09-23 2:56 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-23 10:41 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-09-23 13:41 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-25 5:41 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-26 5:12 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-09-26 5:25 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-26 5:38 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-09-26 6:00 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-26 4:24 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-09-26 5:37 ` Luke Gorrie
2016-09-26 5:40 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-09-27 10:21 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-27 16:45 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-10-09 12:09 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-10-10 2:44 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-10 5:31 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-10-10 6:22 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-10-10 6:57 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-10-10 7:25 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-10-12 2:53 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-12 12:22 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-10-12 15:31 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-13 1:21 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-10-13 3:51 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-10-13 5:33 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-13 5:35 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-13 6:02 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-10-13 7:54 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-13 9:23 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-14 10:11 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-30 3:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/6] " Zhihong Wang
2016-08-30 3:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] vhost: fix windows vm hang Zhihong Wang
2016-09-05 5:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-05 5:25 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-05 5:40 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-30 3:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/6] vhost: rewrite enqueue Zhihong Wang
2016-09-05 6:39 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-07 5:33 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-07 5:39 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-08-30 3:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/6] vhost: remove useless volatile Zhihong Wang
2016-08-30 3:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/6] vhost: add desc prefetch Zhihong Wang
2016-08-30 3:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/6] vhost: batch update used ring Zhihong Wang
2016-08-30 3:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 6/6] vhost: optimize cache access Zhihong Wang
2016-09-09 3:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/6] vhost: optimize enqueue Zhihong Wang
2016-09-09 3:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/6] vhost: fix windows vm hang Zhihong Wang
2016-09-09 3:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/6] vhost: rewrite enqueue Zhihong Wang
2016-09-12 15:42 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-14 8:20 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-15 16:35 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-12 16:26 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-14 8:22 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-18 14:19 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-19 3:29 ` Wang, Zhihong [this message]
2016-09-09 3:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/6] vhost: remove useless volatile Zhihong Wang
2016-09-09 3:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/6] vhost: add desc prefetch Zhihong Wang
2016-09-09 3:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/6] vhost: batch update used ring Zhihong Wang
2016-09-12 15:45 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-14 8:43 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-15 16:38 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-18 2:55 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-18 2:57 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-09 3:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 6/6] vhost: optimize cache access Zhihong Wang
2016-09-12 13:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/6] vhost: optimize enqueue Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-12 13:56 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-12 14:01 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-20 2:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 " Zhihong Wang
2016-09-20 2:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/6] vhost: fix windows vm hang Zhihong Wang
2016-10-13 6:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-20 2:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/6] vhost: rewrite enqueue Zhihong Wang
2016-09-22 9:58 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-09-22 10:13 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-09-20 2:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 3/6] vhost: remove useless volatile Zhihong Wang
2016-09-20 2:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 4/6] vhost: add desc prefetch Zhihong Wang
2016-09-20 2:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 5/6] vhost: batch update used ring Zhihong Wang
2016-09-20 2:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 6/6] vhost: optimize cache access Zhihong Wang
2016-09-21 2:26 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/6] vhost: optimize enqueue Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-21 4:39 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-14 9:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/7] vhost: optimize mergeable Rx path Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-14 9:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/7] vhost: remove useless volatile Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-14 9:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/7] vhost: optimize cache access Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-14 9:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 3/7] vhost: simplify mergeable Rx vring reservation Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-25 22:08 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-26 2:56 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-14 9:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 4/7] vhost: use last avail idx for avail ring reservation Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-14 9:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 5/7] vhost: shadow used ring update Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-14 9:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 6/7] vhost: prefetch avail ring Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-14 9:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 7/7] vhost: retrieve avail head once Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-18 2:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/7] vhost: optimize mergeable Rx path Jianbo Liu
2016-10-18 14:53 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-21 7:51 ` Yuanhan Liu
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