Re: [PATCH RFC v4 net-next 0/5] virtio_net: enabling tx interrupts

From: Jason Wang
Date: Tue Dec 02 2014 - 03:07:24 EST



On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 06:17:03PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
Hello:
We used to orphan packets before transmission for virtio-net. This breaks
socket accounting and can lead serveral functions won't work, e.g:
- Byte Queue Limit depends on tx completion nofication to work.
- Packet Generator depends on tx completion nofication for the last
transmitted packet to complete.
- TCP Small Queue depends on proper accounting of sk_wmem_alloc to work.
This series tries to solve the issue by enabling tx interrupts. To minize
the performance impacts of this, several optimizations were used:
- In guest side, virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed() was used to delay the tx
interrupt untile 3/4 pending packets were sent.
- In host side, interrupt coalescing were used to reduce tx interrupts.
Performance test results[1] (tx-frames 16 tx-usecs 16) shows:
- For guest receiving. No obvious regression on throughput were
noticed. More cpu utilization were noticed in few cases.
- For guest transmission. Very huge improvement on througput for small
packet transmission were noticed. This is expected since TSQ and other
optimization for small packet transmission work after tx interrupt. But
will use more cpu for large packets.
- For TCP_RR, regression (10% on transaction rate and cpu utilization) were
found. Tx interrupt won't help but cause overhead in this case. Using
more aggressive coalescing parameters may help to reduce the regression.

OK, you do have posted coalescing patches - does it help any?

Helps a lot.

For RX, it saves about 5% - 10% cpu. (reduce 60%-90% tx intrs)
For small packet TX, it increases 33% - 245% throughput. (reduce about 60% inters)
For TCP_RR, it increase the 3%-10% trans.rate. (reduce 40%-80% tx intrs)


I'm not sure the regression is due to interrupts.
It would make sense for CPU but why would it
hurt transaction rate?

Anyway guest need to take some cycles to handle tx interrupts.
And transaction rate does increase if we coalesces more tx interurpts.


It's possible that we are deferring kicks too much due to BQL.

As an experiment: do we get any of it back if we do
- if (kick || netif_xmit_stopped(txq))
- virtqueue_kick(sq->vq);
+ virtqueue_kick(sq->vq);
?


I will try, but during TCP_RR, at most 1 packets were pending,
I suspect if BQL can help in this case.

Looks like this helps a lot in multiple sessions of TCP_RR.

How about move the BQL patch out of this series?

Let's first converge tx interrupt and then introduce it?
(e.g with kicking after queuing X bytes?)




If yes, we can just kick e.g. periodically, e.g. after queueing each
X bytes.

Okay, let me try to see if this help.

Changes from RFC V3:
- Don't free tx packets in ndo_start_xmit()
- Add interrupt coalescing support for virtio-net
Changes from RFC v2:
- clean up code, address issues raised by Jason
Changes from RFC v1:
- address comments by Jason Wang, use delayed cb everywhere
- rebased Jason's patch on top of mine and include it (with some tweaks)
Please reivew. Comments were more than welcomed.
[1] Performance Test result:
Environment:
- Two Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz machines connected back to back
with 82599ES cards.
- Both host and guest were net-next.git plus the patch
- Coalescing parameters for the card:
Adaptive RX: off TX: off
rx-usecs: 1
rx-frames: 0
tx-usecs: 0
tx-frames: 0
- Vhost_net was enabled and zerocopy was disabled
- Tests was done by netperf-2.6
- Guest has 2 vcpus with single queue virtio-net
Results:
- Numbers of square brackets are whose significance is grater than 95%
Guest RX:
size/sessions/+throughput/+cpu/+per_cpu_throughput/
64/1/+2.0326/[+6.2807%]/-3.9970%/
64/2/-0.2104%/[+3.2012%]/[-3.3058%]/
64/4/+1.5956%/+2.2451%/-0.6353%/
64/8/+1.1732%/+3.5123%/-2.2598%/
256/1/+3.7619%/[+5.8117%]/-1.9372%/
256/2/-0.0661%/[+3.2511%]/-3.2127%/
256/4/+1.1435%/[-8.1842%]/[+10.1591%]/
256/8/[+2.2447%]/[+6.2044%]/[-3.7283%]/
1024/1/+9.1479%/[+12.0997%]/[-2.6332%]/
1024/2/[-17.3341%]/[+0.0000%]/[-17.3341%]/
1024/4/[-0.6284%]/-1.0376%/+0.4135%/
1024/8/+1.1444%/-1.6069%/+2.7961%/
4096/1/+0.0401%/-0.5993%/+0.6433%/
4096/2/[-0.5894%]/-2.2071%/+1.6542%/
4096/4/[-0.5560%]/-1.4969%/+0.9553%/
4096/8/-0.3362%/+2.7086%/-2.9645%/
16384/1/-0.0285%/+0.7247%/-0.7478%/
16384/2/-0.5286%/+0.3287%/-0.8545%/
16384/4/-0.3297%/-2.0543%/+1.7608%/
16384/8/+1.0932%/+4.0253%/-2.8187%/
65535/1/+0.0003%/-0.1502%/+0.1508%/
65535/2/[-0.6065%]/+0.2309%/-0.8355%/
65535/4/[-0.6861%]/[+3.9451%]/[-4.4554%]/
65535/8/+1.8359%/+3.1590%/-1.2825%/
Guest RX:
size/sessions/+throughput/+cpu/+per_cpu_throughput/
64/1/[+65.0961%]/[-8.6807%]/[+80.7900%]/
64/2/[+6.0288%]/[-2.2823%]/[+8.5052%]/
64/4/[+5.9038%]/[-2.1834%]/[+8.2677%]/
64/8/[+5.4154%]/[-2.1804%]/[+7.7651%]/
256/1/[+184.6462%]/[+4.8906%]/[+171.3742%]/
256/2/[+46.0731%]/[-8.9626%]/[+60.4539%]/
256/4/[+45.8547%]/[-8.3027%]/[+59.0612%]/
256/8/[+45.3486%]/[-8.4024%]/[+58.6817%]/
1024/1/[+432.5372%]/[+3.9566%]/[+412.2689%]/
1024/2/[-1.4207%]/[-23.6426%]/[+29.1025%]/
1024/4/-0.1003%/[-13.6416%]/[+15.6804%]/
1024/8/[+0.2200%]/[+2.0634%]/[-1.8061%]/
4096/1/[+18.4835%]/[-46.1508%]/[+120.0283%]/
4096/2/+0.1770%/[-26.2780%]/[+35.8848%]/
4096/4/-0.1012%/-0.7353%/+0.6388%/
4096/8/-0.6091%/+1.4159%/-1.9968%/
16384/1/-0.0424%/[+11.9373%]/[-10.7021%]/
16384/2/+0.0482%/+2.4685%/-2.3620%/
16384/4/+0.0840%/[+5.3587%]/[-5.0064%]/
16384/8/+0.0048%/[+5.0176%]/[-4.7733%]/
65535/1/-0.0095%/[+10.9408%]/[-9.8705%]/
65535/2/+0.1515%/[+8.1709%]/[-7.4137%]/
65535/4/+0.0203%/[+5.4316%]/[-5.1325%]/
65535/8/+0.1427%/[+6.2753%]/[-5.7705%]/
size/sessions/+trans.rate/+cpu/+per_cpu_trans.rate/
64/1/+0.2346%/[+11.5080%]/[-10.1099%]/
64/25/[-10.7893%]/-0.5791%/[-10.2697%]/
64/50/[-11.5997%]/-0.3429%/[-11.2956%]/
256/1/+0.7219%/[+13.2374%]/[-11.0524%]/
256/25/-6.9567%/+0.8887%/[-7.7763%]/
256/50/[-4.8814%]/-0.0338%/[-4.8492%]/
4096/1/-1.6061%/-0.7561%/-0.8565%/
4096/25/[+2.2120%]/[+1.0839%]/+1.1161%/
4096/50/[+5.6180%]/[+3.2116%]/[+2.3315%]/
Jason Wang (4):
virtio_net: enable tx interrupt
virtio-net: optimize free_old_xmit_skbs stats
virtio-net: add basic interrupt coalescing support
vhost_net: interrupt coalescing support
Michael S. Tsirkin (1):
virtio_net: bql
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 211 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
drivers/vhost/net.c | 200 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
include/uapi/linux/vhost.h | 12 +++
include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 12 +++
4 files changed, 383 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
-- 1.8.3.1

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