alistair23-linux/drivers/vhost
Paolo Abeni db688c24ea vhost_net: use packet weight for rx handler, too
Similar to commit a2ac99905f ("vhost-net: set packet weight of
tx polling to 2 * vq size"), we need a packet-based limit for
handler_rx, too - elsewhere, under rx flood with small packets,
tx can be delayed for a very long time, even without busypolling.

The pkt limit applied to handle_rx must be the same applied by
handle_tx, or we will get unfair scheduling between rx and tx.
Tying such limit to the queue length makes it less effective for
large queue length values and can introduce large process
scheduler latencies, so a constant valued is used - likewise
the existing bytes limit.

The selected limit has been validated with PVP[1] performance
test with different queue sizes:

queue size		256	512	1024

baseline		366	354	362
weight 128		715	723	670
weight 256		740	745	733
weight 512		600	460	583
weight 1024		423	427	418

A packet weight of 256 gives peek performances in under all the
tested scenarios.

No measurable regression in unidirectional performance tests has
been detected.

[1] https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2017/06/05/measuring-and-comparing-open-vswitch-performance/

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-04-24 10:02:13 -04:00
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Kconfig
Kconfig.vringh
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
net.c vhost_net: use packet weight for rx handler, too 2018-04-24 10:02:13 -04:00
scsi.c vhost: remove unused lock check flag in vhost_dev_cleanup() 2018-02-01 16:26:44 +02:00
test.c vhost: remove unused lock check flag in vhost_dev_cleanup() 2018-02-01 16:26:44 +02:00
test.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
vhost.c vhost: return bool from *_access_ok() functions 2018-04-11 10:54:06 -04:00
vhost.h vhost: return bool from *_access_ok() functions 2018-04-11 10:54:06 -04:00
vringh.c
vsock.c fw_cfg, vhost: features fixes 2018-04-06 19:21:41 -07:00