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
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 extra CPU are we wa

Fw: Benchmarking for vhost polling patch

2015-01-01 Thread Razya Ladelsky
Hi Michael, Just a follow up on the polling patch numbers,.. Please let me know if you find these numbers satisfying enough to continue with submitting this patch. Otherwise - we'll have this patch submitted as part of the larger Elvis patch set rather than independently. Thank you, Razya -