Hi,
On 03/02/15 19:55, ronald pina wrote:
Thanks Zoli for your clear and very helpfull answer, my idea is to
prioritize traffic that comes from different guest, for example if
guest_1 is used for a voip server than it would be reasonable to
schedule first the vif guest_1 before other guests. The diagram atached
below explains better my idea. The goal is to improve the latency and
jitter for real-time traffic which have critical requirements to QoS
especially on heavy network i/o hosts, and if the vifs of different
guest are scheduled on round robin manner in dom0 backend than we can
improve this scheduling algorithm like using weighted round robin which
can give more scheduling time to a vif that was used by a voip-server
guest. I would like to know that which module or function is responsible
for scheduling vif on dom0 ?
As I said, it is a NAPI polling function:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/napi
So it is scheduled by NAPI, which doesn't have a clue about what kind of
packets the device dealing with, therefore can't make a decision based
on that. You can try manually configure the weight of a device through
netif_napi_add(), but I strongly recommend to look for other ways I
mentioned in my previous letter.
Thanks
Ronald
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.k...@linaro.org
<mailto:zoltan.k...@linaro.org>> wrote:
On 03/02/15 00:42, Ronald PIna wrote:
Hi
I am working for the msc thesis to improve the performance on
network
for guest domains that uses real-time services like voip or video
streaming servers , i have an idea to implement a network
scheduler on
network backend, the schedulers may be weighted fair queuing or
weighted
round robin, the idea is to schedule first the packet coming from
real-time guest services, one of those schedulers could make the
job and
can prioritize the network traffic.
As far as i have studied from previous works explain that the
outgoing
network traffic in xen is scheduled in round robin manner inside the
function net_tx_action(). Later on the last version of xen this
function
has changed xenvif_tx_action() and have changed his primarily
structure.
My primarily goal is to modify the round robin to more advanced
scheduler which introduce priorities. The clear question is
that where
is located the function which schedule in round robin and if
possible
are there any concern about using another network scheduling
method in
netback ?
xenvif_tx_action is called from NAPI polling context, per queue. It
copies & maps the packets from the guest to Dom0 (at which point it
doesn't have the slightest idea about the packet content), formats
them in xenvif_tx_submit to be a well formed skb, and calls
netif_receive_skb to hand it over to the stack.
You could try doing some reordering in xenvif_tx_submit or
introducing priorities in the ring buffer, but I would strongly
discourage you to do that, for similar reasons mentioned by Ian. You
would be better off using standard Linux tools for doing that, see
'man tc', and I would try on the sending side, in the guest, before
netfront gets the packet.
Or, if your idea is to prioritize between traffic coming from
separate guests, then xenvif_tx_action is definitely the wrong place
to do that: as said above, it deals only with the traffic of one
particular queue of a netback device. You might want to look into
the entity switching/routing between the guests and NICs: Linux
bridge module, openvswitch, the IP routing engine of the backend
etc. I think the first two could be the reasonable choices, bridge
might lacks such functionality though.
Zoli
Thanks in advance
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