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SubjectRe: macvtap performance regression (bisected) between 3.13 and 3.14-rc1
On 28/02/14 23:14, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> On 02/27/2014 03:52 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> Vlad,
>>
>> commit 6acf54f1cf0a6747bac9fea26f34cfc5a9029523
>> macvtap: Add support of packet capture on macvtap device.
>>
>> causes a performance regression for iperf traffic between two KVM guests
>> on my s390 system. Both guests are connected via two macvtaps on the same OSA
>> network card.
>> Before that patch I get ~20 Gbit/sec between two guests, afterwards I get
>> ~4Gbit/sec
>>
>> Latency seems to be unchanges (uperf 1byte ping pong).
>>
>> According to ifconfig in the guest, I have ~ 1500 bytes per packet with this
>> patch and ~ 40000 bytes without. So for some reason this patch causes the
>> network stack to do segmentation. (the guest kernel stays the same, only host
>> kernel is changed).
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> I am looking. It shouldn't cause addition segmentations and when I ran
> netperf on the code I didn't see any difference in the throughput.

Dont know if the different bytes/packets ratio is really the reason or
just a side effect. As a hint: the underlying network device does not support
segmentation, but this should not matter for traffic between to guests.

Maybe you remember, we had a similar situation with commit 3e4f8b787370978733ca6cae452720a4f0c296b8
(macvtap: Perform GSO on forwarding path), the setup is basically the same.


Christian



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