Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Shared vhost design

2015-08-10 Thread Bandan Das
"Michael S. Tsirkin" writes: > On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 07:06:38PM -0400, Bandan Das wrote: >> Hi Michael, ... >> >> > - does the design address the issue of VM 1 being blocked >> > (e.g. because it hits swap) and blocking VM 2? >> Good question. I haven't thought of this yet. But IIUC, >> the w

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Shared vhost design

2015-08-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
: Bandan Das > > Cc: k...@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux- > > ker...@vger.kernel.org, Eyal Moscovici/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, Razya > > Ladelsky/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, cgro...@vger.kernel.org, jasow...@redhat.com > > Date: 08/09/2015 03:46 PM > > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Shared vhost design

2015-08-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 07:06:38PM -0400, Bandan Das wrote: > Hi Michael, > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 12:07:31AM -0400, Bandan Das wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> There have been discussions on improving the current vhost design. The > >> first > >> attempt, to

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Shared vhost design

2015-08-08 Thread Bandan Das
Hi Michael, "Michael S. Tsirkin" writes: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 12:07:31AM -0400, Bandan Das wrote: >> Hello, >> >> There have been discussions on improving the current vhost design. The first >> attempt, to my knowledge was Shirley Ma's patch to create a dedicated vhost >> worker per cgroup

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Shared vhost design

2015-08-01 Thread Bandan Das
Eyal Moscovici writes: ... > > We can start to implement polling, but I am unsure if the cgroups > integration > will be sufficient. The polling vhost thread should be scheduled all > the time and just moving it from one cgroup to the other wont be > sufficient. > I think it needs a deeper int

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Shared vhost design

2015-07-27 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 03:48:19PM -0400, Bandan Das wrote: > Eyal Moscovici writes: > > > Hi, > > > > The test showed the same relative numbers as we got in our internal > > testing. I was wondering about the configuration in regards to NUMA. From > Thanks for confirming. > > > our testing we

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Shared vhost design

2015-07-27 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 12:07:31AM -0400, Bandan Das wrote: > Hello, > > There have been discussions on improving the current vhost design. The first > attempt, to my knowledge was Shirley Ma's patch to create a dedicated vhost > worker per cgroup. > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.networ

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Shared vhost design

2015-07-27 Thread Bandan Das
tdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org, > m...@redhat.com, Eyal Moscovici/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, Razya > Ladelsky/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, cgro...@vger.kernel.org, jasow...@redhat.com > Date: 07/13/2015 07:08 AM > Subject:[RFC PATCH 0/4] Shared vhost design > > > > H

[RFC PATCH 0/4] Shared vhost design

2015-07-12 Thread Bandan Das
Hello, There have been discussions on improving the current vhost design. The first attempt, to my knowledge was Shirley Ma's patch to create a dedicated vhost worker per cgroup. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/224730 Later, I posted a cmwq based approach for performance comparisio