virtio-pci: use zero length mmio eventfd for 1.0 notification cap when possible
commitbc85ccfdf5cc045588f665c84b5707d7364c8a6c
authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Fri, 6 Nov 2015 08:02:47 +0000 (6 16:02 +0800)
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Thu, 12 Nov 2015 13:49:32 +0000 (12 15:49 +0200)
treef336c7e36eebaae6ca80fa83d8cd0c2eb89dae23
parent351082238d5d45d6836ec94eabe3fe7d72b36f46
virtio-pci: use zero length mmio eventfd for 1.0 notification cap when possible

We use data match eventfd for 1.0 notification currently. This could
be slow since software decoding is needed for mmio exit. To speed this
up, we can switch to use zero length mmio eventfd for 1.0 notification
since we can examine the queue index directly from the writing
address. KVM kernel module can utilize this by registering it to fast
mmio bus which could be as fast as pio on ept capable machine when
fast mmio is supported by host kernel.

Lots of improvements were seen on a ept capable machine:

Guest RX:(TCP)
size/session/+throughput%/+cpu%/-+per cpu%/
64/1/+1.6807%/[-16.2421%]/[+21.3984%]/
64/2/+0.6091%/[-11.0187%]/[+13.0678%]/
64/4/+0.0553%/[-5.9768%]/[+6.4155%]/
64/8/+0.1206%/[-4.0057%]/[+4.2984%]/
256/1/-0.0031%/[-10.1166%]/[+11.2517%]/
256/2/-0.5058%/[-6.1656%]/+6.0317%]/
...

Guest TX:(TCP)
size/session/+throughput%/+cpu%/-+per cpu%/
64/1/[+18.9183%]/-0.2823%/[+19.2550%]/
64/2/[+13.5714%]/[+2.2675%]/[+11.0533%]/
64/4/[+13.1070%]/[+2.1817%]/[+10.6920%]/
64/8/[+13.0426%]/[+2.0887%]/[+10.7299%]/
256/1/[+36.2761%]/+6.3434%/[+28.1471%]/
...
1024/1/[+44.8873%]/+2.0811%/[+41.9335%]/
...
1024/4/+0.0228%/[-2.2044%]/[+2.2774%]/
...
16384/2/+0.0127%/[-5.0346%]/[+5.3148%]/
...
65535/1/[+0.0062%]/[-4.1183%]/[+4.3017%]/
65535/2/+0.0004%/[-4.2311%]/[+4.4185%]/
65535/4/+0.0107%/[-4.6106%]/[+4.8446%]/
65535/8/-0.0090%/[-5.5178%]/[+5.8306%]/

Latency:(TCP_RR)
size/session/+transaction rate%/+cpu%/-+per cpu%/
64/1/[+6.5248%]/[-9.2882%]/[+17.4322%]/
64/25/[+11.0854%]/[+0.8000%]/[+10.2038%]/
64/50/[+12.1076%]/[+2.4627%]/[+9.4131%]/
256/1/[+5.3677%]/[+10.5669%]/-4.7024%/
256/25/[+5.6402%]/-0.8962%/[+6.5955%]/
256/50/[+5.9685%]/[+1.7766%]/[+4.1188%]/
4096/1/+0.2508%/[-10.4941%]/[+12.0047%]/
4096/25/[+1.8533%]/-0.0273%/+1.8812%/
4096/50/[+1.2156%]/-1.4134%/+2.6667%/

Notes: data with '[]' is the one whose significance is greater than 95%.

Thanks Wenli Quan <wquan@redhat.com> for the benchmarking.

Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c