Re: Fw: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2015-01-17 Thread Razya Ladelsky
> > > > Our suggestion would be to use the maximum (a large enough) value, > > so that vhost is polling 100% of the time. > > > > The polling optimization mainly addresses users who want to maximize their > > performance, even on the expense of wasting cpu cycles. The maximum value > > will pr

Re: Fw: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2015-01-14 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
fa/IBM@IBMIL, > > Yossi Kuperman1/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, Joel Nider/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, > > abel.gor...@gmail.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Eyal > Moscovici/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL > > Date: 12/01/2015 12:36 PM > > Subject: Re: Fw: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch > > > &g

Re: Fw: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2015-01-14 Thread Razya Ladelsky
L, > abel.gor...@gmail.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Eyal Moscovici/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL > Date: 12/01/2015 12:36 PM > Subject: Re: Fw: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 02:44:17PM +0200, Razya Ladelsky wrote: > > > Hi Razya, > > > Thanks for the updat

Re: Fw: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2015-01-12 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 02:44:17PM +0200, Razya Ladelsky wrote: > > Hi Razya, > > Thanks for the update. > > So that's reasonable I think, and I think it makes sense > > to keep working on this in isolation - it's more > > manageable at this size. > > > > The big questions in my mind: > > - What h

Re: Fw: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2015-01-11 Thread Razya Ladelsky
> Hi Razya, > Thanks for the update. > So that's reasonable I think, and I think it makes sense > to keep working on this in isolation - it's more > manageable at this size. > > The big questions in my mind: > - What happens if system is lightly loaded? > E.g. a ping/pong benchmark. How much ext

Re: Fw: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2015-01-05 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
> From: Razya Ladelsky/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL > To: m...@redhat.com > Cc: > Date: 25/11/2014 02:43 PM > Subject:Re: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch > Sent by:kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org > > > > Hi Michael, > > > Hi Razya, > > On t

Fw: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2015-01-01 Thread Razya Ladelsky
Razya - Forwarded by Razya Ladelsky/Haifa/IBM on 01/01/2015 09:37 AM - From: Razya Ladelsky/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL To: m...@redhat.com Cc: Date: 25/11/2014 02:43 PM Subject: Re: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch Sent by:kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org Hi Michael, > Hi Raz

Re: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2014-11-25 Thread Razya Ladelsky
Hi Michael, > Hi Razya, > On the netperf benchmark, it looks like polling=10 gives a modest but > measureable gain. So from that perspective it might be worth it if it's > not too much code, though we'll need to spend more time checking the > macro effect - we barely moved the needle on the macro

Re: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2014-11-16 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
> Eran Raichstein/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, Yossi Kuperman1/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, > > Joel Nider/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, abel.gor...@gmail.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org > > Date: 29/10/2014 02:38 PM > > Subject: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch > > > > Hi Michael, > > >

Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2014-11-16 Thread Razya Ladelsky
Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, abel.gor...@gmail.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org > Date: 29/10/2014 02:38 PM > Subject: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch > > Hi Michael, > > Following the polling patch thread: http://marc.info/? > l=kvm&m=140853271510179&w=2, > I changed poll_stop_idle

Re: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2014-11-09 Thread Razya Ladelsky
Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, abel.gor...@gmail.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org > Date: 29/10/2014 02:38 PM > Subject: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch > > Hi Michael, > > Following the polling patch thread: http://marc.info/? > l=kvm&m=140853271510179&w=2, > I changed poll_stop_idle

Re: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2014-10-30 Thread Zhang Haoyu
>> > Hi Michael, >> > >> > Following the polling patch thread: http://marc.info/? >> l=kvm&m=140853271510179&w=2, >> > I changed poll_stop_idle to be counted in micro seconds, and carried >out >> > experiments using varying sizes of this value. The setup for >> netperf consisted of >> > 1 vm

Re: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2014-10-30 Thread Razya Ladelsky
"Zhang Haoyu" wrote on 30/10/2014 01:30:08 PM: > From: "Zhang Haoyu" > To: Razya Ladelsky/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, "mst" > Cc: Razya Ladelsky/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, "kvm" > Date: 30/10/2014 01:30 PM > Subject: Re: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

Re: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2014-10-30 Thread Zhang Haoyu
> Hi Michael, > > Following the polling patch thread: > http://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=140853271510179&w=2, > I changed poll_stop_idle to be counted in micro seconds, and carried out > experiments using varying sizes of this value. The setup for netperf > consisted of > 1 vm and 1 vhost , each run

Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2014-10-29 Thread Razya Ladelsky
Hi Michael, Following the polling patch thread: http://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=140853271510179&w=2, I changed poll_stop_idle to be counted in micro seconds, and carried out experiments using varying sizes of this value. The setup for netperf consisted of 1 vm and 1 vhost , each running on their ow