Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] virtio-mmio: support for multiple irqs

[GAUGUEY Rémy 228890]

Hi Shannon, 

>Type of backend         bandwith(GBytes/sec)
>virtio-net              0.66
>vhost-net               1.49
>vhost-net with irqfd    2.01
>
>Test cmd: ./iperf -c 192.168.0.2 -P 1 -i 10 -p 5001 -f G -t 60

Impressive results !
Could you please detail your setup ? which platform are you using and which GbE 
controller ?
As a reference, it would be good also to have result with an iperf to the HOST 
to see how far we are from a native configuration...

Also, I assume a pending Qemu patch is necessary to assign multiple irqs ? I'm 
correct ? 

Thanks a lot, 
Best regards
Rémy

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Objet : Re: [RFC PATCH] virtio-mmio: support for multiple irqs


On 2014/11/4 17:35, Shannon Zhao wrote:
> As the current virtio-mmio only support single irq, so some advanced 
> features such as vhost-net with irqfd are not supported. And the net 
> performance is not the best without vhost-net and irqfd supporting.
> 
Hi Joel, Peter, Mst,

Some virtio-net with virtio-mmio performance data on ARM added as followed:

Type of backend         bandwith(GBytes/sec)
virtio-net              0.66
vhost-net               1.49
vhost-net with irqfd    2.01

Test cmd: ./iperf -c 192.168.0.2 -P 1 -i 10 -p 5001 -f G -t 60

>From this test data, irqfd has great improvement (about 30%) on performance.
So maybe it's necessary to enable multiple irq support to make vhost-net with 
virtio-mmio on ARM be able to use irqfd.

How do you guys think? Look forward for your feedback.

Thanks,
Shannon

> This patch support virtio-mmio to request multiple irqs like 
> virtio-pci. With this patch and qemu assigning multiple irqs for 
> virtio-mmio device, it's ok to use vhost-net with irqfd on arm/arm64.
>