[PATCH RFC 0/4] vsock/virtio: optimizations to increase the throughput

Stefano Garzarella
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 15:44:39 -0000

On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 03:14:10PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi
wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 12:58:34PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > This series tries to increase the throughput of virtio-vsock with
slight
> > changes:
> >  - patch 1/4: reduces the number of credit update messages sent to the
> >               transmitter
> >  - patch 2/4: allows the host to split packets on multiple buffers,
> >               in this way, we can remove the packet size limit to
> >               VIRTIO_VSOCK_DEFAULT_RX_BUF_SIZE
> >  - patch 3/4: uses VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE as the max packet
size
> >               allowed
> >  - patch 4/4: increases RX buffer size to 64 KiB (affects only
host->guest)
> >
> > RFC:
> >  - maybe patch 4 can be replaced with multiple queues with different
> >    buffer sizes or using EWMA to adapt the buffer size to the traffic
> >
> >  - as Jason suggested in a previous thread [1] I'll evaluate to
use
> >    virtio-net as transport, but I need to understand better how to
> >    interface with it, maybe introducing sk_buff in virtio-vsock.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Great performance results, nice job!

:)

>
> Please include efficiency numbers (bandwidth / CPU utilization) in the
> future.  Due to the nature of these optimizations it's unlikely that
> efficiency has decreased, so I'm not too worried about it this time.

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll measure also the efficiency for future
optimizations.

Cheers,
Stefano