linux/drivers/vhost
Tonghao Zhang 441abde4cd net: vhost: add rx busy polling in tx path
This patch improves the guest receive performance.
On the handle_tx side, we poll the sock receive queue at the
same time. handle_rx do that in the same way.

We set the poll-us=100us and use the netperf to test throughput
and mean latency. When running the tests, the vhost-net kthread
of that VM, is alway 100% CPU. The commands are shown as below.

Rx performance is greatly improved by this patch. There is not
notable performance change on tx with this series though. This
patch is useful for bi-directional traffic.

netperf -H IP -t TCP_STREAM -l 20 -- -O "THROUGHPUT, THROUGHPUT_UNITS, MEAN_LATENCY"

Topology:
[Host] ->linux bridge -> tap vhost-net ->[Guest]

TCP_STREAM:
* Without the patch:  19842.95 Mbps, 6.50 us mean latency
* With the patch:     37598.20 Mbps, 3.43 us mean latency

Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-09-26 20:25:55 -07:00
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Kconfig vhost: allow vhost-scsi driver to be built-in 2018-08-22 01:01:32 +03:00
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 net: vhost: add rx busy polling in tx path 2018-09-26 20:25:55 -07:00
scsi.c virtio, vhost: fixes, tweaks 2018-08-24 08:45:19 -07:00
test.c treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
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 net: vhost: lock the vqs one by one 2018-09-26 20:25:54 -07:00
vhost.h vhost: switch to use new message format 2018-08-06 10:41:04 -07:00
vringh.c treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
vsock.c fw_cfg, vhost: features fixes 2018-04-06 19:21:41 -07:00