From: Jianbo Liu <jianbo.liu@linaro.org>
To: "Wang, Zhihong" <zhihong.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/5] vhost: optimize enqueue
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 22:41:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP4Qi39i4afVzycu+eBQqSXd2Smr7JpRA5QAWAFniVW__kUz6A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8F6C2BD409508844A0EFC19955BE09414E7B5ED5@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On 22 September 2016 at 18:04, Wang, Zhihong <zhihong.wang@intel.com> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jianbo Liu [mailto:jianbo.liu@linaro.org]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 5:02 PM
>> To: Wang, Zhihong <zhihong.wang@intel.com>
>> Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>; Maxime Coquelin
>> <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>; dev@dpdk.org
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/5] vhost: optimize enqueue
>>
>> On 22 September 2016 at 14:58, Wang, Zhihong <zhihong.wang@intel.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Jianbo Liu [mailto:jianbo.liu@linaro.org]
>> >> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 1:48 PM
>> >> To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
>> >> Cc: Wang, Zhihong <zhihong.wang@intel.com>; Maxime Coquelin
>> >> <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>; dev@dpdk.org
>> >> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/5] vhost: optimize enqueue
>> >>
>> >> On 22 September 2016 at 10:29, Yuanhan Liu
>> <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 08:54:11PM +0800, Jianbo Liu wrote:
>> >> >> >> > My setup consists of one host running a guest.
>> >> >> >> > The guest generates as much 64bytes packets as possible using
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Have you tested with other different packet size?
>> >> >> >> My testing shows that performance is dropping when packet size is
>> >> more
>> >> >> >> than 256.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Hi Jianbo,
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Thanks for reporting this.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > 1. Are you running the vector frontend with mrg_rxbuf=off?
>> >> >> >
>> >> Yes, my testing is mrg_rxbuf=off, but not vector frontend PMD.
>> >>
>> >> >> > 2. Could you please specify what CPU you're running? Is it Haswell
>> >> >> > or Ivy Bridge?
>> >> >> >
>> >> It's an ARM server.
>> >>
>> >> >> > 3. How many percentage of drop are you seeing?
>> >> The testing result:
>> >> size (bytes) improvement (%)
>> >> 64 3.92
>> >> 128 11.51
>> >> 256 24.16
>> >> 512 -13.79
>> >> 1024 -22.51
>> >> 1500 -12.22
>> >> A correction is that performance is dropping if byte size is larger than 512.
>> >
>> >
>> > Jianbo,
>> >
>> > Could you please verify does this patch really cause enqueue perf to drop?
>> >
>> > You can test the enqueue path only by set guest to do rxonly, and compare
>> > the mpps by show port stats all in the guest.
>> >
>> >
>> Tested with testpmd, host: txonly, guest: rxonly
>> size (bytes) improvement (%)
>> 64 4.12
>> 128 6
>> 256 2.65
>> 512 -1.12
>> 1024 -7.02
>
>
>
> I think your number is little bit hard to understand for me, this patch's
> optimization contains 2 parts:
>
> 1. ring operation: works for both mrg_rxbuf on and off
>
> 2. remote write ordering: works for mrg_rxbuf=on only
>
> So, for mrg_rxbuf=off, if this patch is good for 64B packets, then it
> shouldn't do anything bad for larger packets.
>
> This is the gain on x86 platform: host iofwd between nic and vhost,
> guest rxonly.
>
> nic2vm enhancement
> 64 21.83%
> 128 16.97%
> 256 6.34%
> 512 0.01%
> 1024 0.00%
>
I bootup a VM with 2 virtual port, and stress the traffic between them.
First, I stressed with pktgen-dpdk in VM, and did iofwd in host.
Then, as you told, I did rxonly in VM, and txonly in host.
> I suspect there's some complication in ARM's micro-arch.
>
> Could you try v6 and apply all patches except the the last one:
> [PATCH v6 6/6] vhost: optimize cache access
>
> And see if there's still perf drop?
>
The last patch can improve the performance. The drop is actually
caused by the second patch.
Jianbo
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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 [this message]
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
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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