Re: [PATCH RFC 4/4] vsock/virtio: increase RX buffer size to 64 KiB

[Jason Wang]

On 2019/4/5 äå4:44, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 12:58:38PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > In order to increase host -> guest throughput with large packets,
> > we can use 64 KiB RX buffers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   include/linux/virtio_vsock.h | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h b/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
> > index 6d7a22cc20bf..43cce304408e 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
> > @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
> >   #define VIRTIO_VSOCK_DEFAULT_MIN_BUF_SIZE	128
> >   #define VIRTIO_VSOCK_DEFAULT_BUF_SIZE		(1024 * 256)
> >   #define VIRTIO_VSOCK_DEFAULT_MAX_BUF_SIZE	(1024 * 256)
> > -#define VIRTIO_VSOCK_DEFAULT_RX_BUF_SIZE	(1024 * 4)
> > +#define VIRTIO_VSOCK_DEFAULT_RX_BUF_SIZE	(1024 * 64)
> This patch raises rx ring memory consumption from 128 * 4KB = 512KB to
> 128 * 64KB = 8MB.
>
> Michael, Jason: Any advice regarding rx/tx ring sizes and buffer sizes?
>
> Depending on rx ring size and the workload's packet size, different
> values might be preferred.
>
> This could become a tunable in the future.  It determines the size of
> the guest driver's rx buffers.


In virtio-net, we have mergeable rx buffer and estimate the rx buffer 
size through EWMA.

That's another reason I suggest to squash the vsock codes into virtio-net.

Thanks