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lguest: try to batch interrupts on network receive
authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:27:12 +0000 (22:27 -0600)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:57:12 +0000 (22:27 +0930)
commite32905cf6cb228f4c925169664c945a24bce2294
tree55afdb7bc1f7e03bc910e59a17962e671a031ebc
parent1657694fbe6cdff2d8afd8bd76794e33a7918a53
lguest: try to batch interrupts on network receive

Rather than triggering an interrupt every time, we only trigger an
interrupt when there are no more incoming packets (or the recv queue
is full).

However, the overhead of doing the select to figure this out is
measurable: 1M pings goes from 98 to 104 seconds, and 1G Guest->Host
TCP goes from 3.69 to 3.94 seconds.  It's close to the noise though.

I tested various timeouts, including reducing it as the number of
pending packets increased, timing a 1 gigabyte TCP send from Guest ->
Host and Host -> Guest (GSO disabled, to increase packet rate).

// time tcpblast -o -s 65536 -c 16k 192.168.2.1:9999 > /dev/null

Timeout Guest->Host Pkts/irq Host->Guest Pkts/irq
Before 11.3s 1.0 6.3s 1.0
0 11.7s 1.0 6.6s 23.5
1 17.1s 8.8 8.6s 26.0
1/pending 13.4s 1.9 6.6s 23.8
2/pending 13.6s 2.8 6.6s 24.1
5/pending 14.1s 5.0 6.6s 24.4

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Documentation/lguest/lguest.c