Re: [PATCH 0/15] KVM: optimize for MMIO handled

From: Xiao Guangrong
Date: Wed Jun 08 2011 - 02:20:48 EST

On 06/08/2011 11:47 AM, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:

>>> Sure, KVM guest is the client, and it uses e1000 NIC, and uses NAT
>>> network connect to the netperf server, the bandwidth of our network
>>> is 100M.
>>>
>
> I see the reason, thank you!
>
> I used virtio-net and you used e1000.
> You are using e1000 to see the MMIO performance change, right?
>

Hi Takuya,

Now, i have done the performance test for virtio-net, the performance is
improved very little, and it is not *regression* ;-)

The reason is, MMIO generated by virtio-net is very very little.

ept = 1:
============================
Before patch:
--------------
TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.122.247 (192.168.122.247) port 0 AF_INET
Local /Remote
Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans.
Send Recv Size Size Time Rate
bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec

16384 87380 1 1 60.00 972.21
16384 87380

TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.122.247 (192.168.122.247) port 0 AF_INET
Local /Remote
Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans.
Send Recv Size Size Time Rate
bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec

16384 87380 1 1 60.00 971.01
16384 87380

TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.122.247 (192.168.122.247) port 0 AF_INET
Local /Remote
Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans.
Send Recv Size Size Time Rate
bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec

16384 87380 1 1 60.00 974.44
16384 87380

After patch:
--------------
TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.122.247 (192.168.122.247) port 0 AF_INET
Local /Remote
Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans.
Send Recv Size Size Time Rate
bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec

16384 87380 1 1 60.00 973.45
16384 87380

TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.122.247 (192.168.122.247) port 0 AF_INET
Local /Remote
Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans.
Send Recv Size Size Time Rate
bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec

16384 87380 1 1 60.00 973.63
16384 87380

TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.122.247 (192.168.122.247) port 0 AF_INET
Local /Remote
Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans.
Send Recv Size Size Time Rate
bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec

16384 87380 1 1 60.00 976.25
16384 87380

ept = 0, bypass_guest_pf=0:
============================
Before patch:
--------------
TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.122.247 (192.168.122.247) port 0 AF_INET
Local /Remote
Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans.
Send Recv Size Size Time Rate
bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec

16384 87380 1 1 60.00 975.16
16384 87380

TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.122.247 (192.168.122.247) port 0 AF_INET
Local /Remote
Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans.
Send Recv Size Size Time Rate
bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec

16384 87380 1 1 60.00 979.95
16384 87380

TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.122.247 (192.168.122.247) port 0 AF_INET
Local /Remote
Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans.
Send Recv Size Size Time Rate
bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec

16384 87380 1 1 60.00 984.03
16384 87380

After patch:
--------------
TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.122.247 (192.168.122.247) port 0 AF_INET
Local /Remote
Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans.
Send Recv Size Size Time Rate
bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec

16384 87380 1 1 60.00 974.30
16384 87380

TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.122.247 (192.168.122.247) port 0 AF_INET
Local /Remote
Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans.
Send Recv Size Size Time Rate
bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec

16384 87380 1 1 60.00 976.33
16384 87380

TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.122.247 (192.168.122.247) port 0 AF_INET
Local /Remote
Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans.
Send Recv Size Size Time Rate
bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec

16384 87380 1 1 60.00 981.45
16384 87380
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