On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 08:57:52AM +0000, Xu, Qian Q wrote:
> Btw, some good news: if I run a simple dequeue workload (running rxonly in
> vhost-pmd and runnin txonly in guest testpmd), it yields ~50% performance
> boost for packet size 1518B, but this case is without NIC.
> And similar case as vhost<-->virtio loopback, we can see ~10% performance
> gains at 1518B without NIC.
>
> Some bad news: If with the patch, I noticed a 3%-7% performance drop if
> zero-copy=0 compared with current DPDK(e.g: 16.07) at vhost/virtio loopback
> and vhost RX only + virtio TX only. Seems the patch will
> Impact the zero-copy=0 performance a little.
There are some follow up discussion internally, the 3%-7% drop reported
by Qian when zero-copy is not enabled is acutally due to the fluctuation.
So, a false alarm.
--yliu
