[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Implement persistent grant in xen-netfront/netback
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:56:17AM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On 15/11/12 09:38, ANNIE LI wrote: > > > > > > On 2012-11-15 15:40, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 03:03:07PM +0800, Annie Li wrote: > >>> This patch implements persistent grants for xen-netfront/netback. This > >>> mechanism maintains page pools in netback/netfront, these page pools is > >>> used to > >>> save grant pages which are mapped. This way improve performance which is > >>> wasted > >>> when doing grant operations. > >>> > >>> Current netback/netfront does map/unmap grant operations frequently when > >>> transmitting/receiving packets, and grant operations costs much cpu > >>> clock. In > >>> this patch, netfront/netback maps grant pages when needed and then saves > >>> them > >>> into a page pool for future use. All these pages will be unmapped when > >>> removing/releasing the net device. > >>> > >> Do you have performance numbers available already? with/without persistent > >> grants? > > I have some simple netperf/netserver test result with/without persistent > > grants, > > > > Following is result of with persistent grant patch, > > > > Guests, Sum, Avg, Min, Max > > 1, 15106.4, 15106.4, 15106.36, 15106.36 > > 2, 13052.7, 6526.34, 6261.81, 6790.86 > > 3, 12675.1, 6337.53, 6220.24, 6454.83 > > 4, 13194, 6596.98, 6274.70, 6919.25 > > > > > > Following are result of without persistent patch > > > > Guests, Sum, Avg, Min, Max > > 1, 10864.1, 10864.1, 10864.10, 10864.10 > > 2, 10898.5, 5449.24, 4862.08, 6036.40 > > 3, 10734.5, 5367.26, 5261.43, 5473.08 > > 4, 10924, 5461.99, 5314.84, 5609.14 > > In the block case, performance improvement is seen when using a large > number of guests, could you perform the same benchmark increasing the > number of guests to 15? Keep in mind that one of the things that is limiting these numbers is that netback is very CPU intensive. So I think it could get much much faster - but netback pegs at 100%. With Wei Liu's patches the CPU usage did drop by 40% (this is when I tested the old netback with Wei's netback patches)- so we should see even a further speed increase. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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