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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next V2] tun: introduce tx skb ring
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On 2016年06月17日 08:41, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 04:38:17PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> >We used to queue tx packets in sk_receive_queue, this is less
>> >efficient since it requires spinlocks to synchronize between producer
>> >and consumer.
>> >
>> >This patch tries to address this by:
>> >
>> >- introduce a new mode which will be only enabled with IFF_TX_ARRAY
>> > set and switch from sk_receive_queue to a fixed size of skb
>> > array with 256 entries in this mode.
>> >- introduce a new proto_ops peek_len which was used for peeking the
>> > skb length.
>> >- implement a tun version of peek_len for vhost_net to use and convert
>> > vhost_net to use peek_len if possible.
>> >
>> >Pktgen test shows about 18% improvement on guest receiving pps for small
>> >buffers:
>> >
>> >Before: ~1220000pps
>> >After : ~1440000pps
>> >
>> >The reason why I stick to new mode is because:
>> >
>> >- though resize is supported by skb array, in multiqueue mode, it's
>> > not easy to recover from a partial success of queue resizing.
>> >- tx_queue_len is a user visible feature.
>> >
>> >Signed-off-by: Jason Wang<jasowang@redhat.com>
> I still think it's wrong to add a new feature for this.
> For example, why 256 entries?

It's the value of virtqueue size supported by qemu.

> Queue len is user visible but it's there precisely for this
> reason so people can tune queue for workload.

Right.

>
> Would it help to have ptr_ring_resize that gets an array of
> rings and resizes them both to same length?

Yes, that would be very helpful.

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