Do you mean if we discard KeSetTargetProcessorDpc(&xi->rx_dpc, 0) , the interrupts
will be processed across on different VCPUS, but will cause serious performance issue?
Where could I find the releated docs?
So actually we need do KeSetImportanceDpc(&xi->rx_dpc, HighImportance) to solve
ping problem. Though performance is not the best, but it should not decrease, right?
many thanks.
> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] RE: Rather slow time of Pin in Windows with GPL PVdriver
> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:45:46 +1100
> From: james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: tinnycloud@xxxxxxxxxxx; paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx
> CC: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> >
> > I've just pushed a bit of a rewrite of the rx path in gplpv. It's not
> > particularly well tested yet but I can't get it to crash. It should
> scale much
> > better with SMP too. I'm using more lock free data structures so the
> lock's
> > are held for much less time.
> >
>
> Unfortunately performance still isn't good. What I've found is that NDIS
> really does want you to only process packets on one CPU at one time (eg
> CPU0), otherwise they are indicated to NDIS out of order causing serious
> performance problems (according to the docs).
>
> In addition to KeSetTargetProcessorDpc(&xi->rx_dpc, 0), we also need to
> do KeSetImportanceDpc(&xi->rx_dpc, HighImportance) - as Paul stated,
> which makes sure the DPC runs immediately even if it is triggered from
> another CPU (I assume this has IPI overhead though). I think I could
> detect >1 CPU's and schedule the rx and tx onto different CPU's to each
> other, but always the same CPU.
>
> Windows does support RSS which ensures per-connection in-order
> processing of packets. From reading the "Receive-Side Scaling
> Enhancements in Windows Server 2008" document, it appears that we would
> need to hash various fields in the packet header and compute a CPU
> number for that connection, then schedule the DPC onto that CPU. It
> shouldn't be that hard except that xennet.sys is an NDIS5.1 driver, not
> an NDIS6.0 driver, and in order to support NDIS6.0 I would need to
> maintain two trees which I'm reluctant to do without a very good reason.
> Other docs state the RSS is supported for Windows 2003 SP2 but I can't
> find any specifics - I've asked the question on the ntdev list.
>
> James
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