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From: Balazs Nemeth <bnemeth@redhat.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, "Xia, Chenbo" <chenbo.xia@intel.com>,
	Adrian Moreno Zapata <amorenoz@redhat.com>,
	Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] vhost: make virtqueue cache-friendly
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:52:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e42095b050b03ab8fdfa78e44903b03620c1aade.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8z4y_f1wN9xkz3YAOK2EnkKpOgMsUUY2y49erk7BuPHVw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2021-03-23 at 11:30 +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 10:02 AM Maxime Coquelin
> <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > As done for Virtio PMD, this series improves cache utilization
> > of the vhost_virtqueue struct by removing unused field,
> > make the live-migration cache dynamically allocated at
> > live-migration setup time and by moving fields
> > around so that hot fields are on the first cachelines.
> > 
> > With this series, The struct vhost_virtqueue size goes
> > from 832B (13 cachelines) down to 320B (5 cachelines).
> > 
> > With this series and the virtio one, I measure a gain
> > of up to 8% in IO loop micro-benchmark with packed
> > ring, and 5% with split ring.
> > 
> > I don't have a setup at hand to run PVP testing, but
> > it might be interresting to get the numbers as I
> > suspect the cache pressure is higher in this test as
> > in real use-cases.
> > 
> > Changes in v4:
> > ==============
> > - Fix missing changes to boolean (Chenbo)
> > 
> 
> For the series,
> Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> 
> Merci !
> 
> 

Tested this in a PVP setup on ARM, giving a slight improvement in
performance. For the series:

Tested-by: Balazs Nemeth <bnemeth@redhat.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-29 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-23  9:02 Maxime Coquelin
2021-03-23  9:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/3] vhost: remove unused Vhost virtqueue field Maxime Coquelin
2021-03-23  9:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] vhost: move dirty logging cache out of the virtqueue Maxime Coquelin
2021-03-23  9:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/3] vhost: optimize vhost virtqueue struct Maxime Coquelin
2021-03-25  2:30   ` Xia, Chenbo
2021-03-23 10:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] vhost: make virtqueue cache-friendly David Marchand
2021-03-29 10:52   ` Balazs Nemeth [this message]
2021-03-31  6:04 ` Xia, Chenbo

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