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Commit 4a8962e2 authored by Rusty Russell's avatar Rusty Russell
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lguest: try to batch interrupts on network receive



Rather than triggering an interrupt every time, we only trigger an
interrupt when there are no more incoming packets (or the recv queue
is full).

However, the overhead of doing the select to figure this out is
measurable: 1M pings goes from 98 to 104 seconds, and 1G Guest->Host
TCP goes from 3.69 to 3.94 seconds.  It's close to the noise though.

I tested various timeouts, including reducing it as the number of
pending packets increased, timing a 1 gigabyte TCP send from Guest ->
Host and Host -> Guest (GSO disabled, to increase packet rate).

// time tcpblast -o -s 65536 -c 16k 192.168.2.1:9999 > /dev/null

Timeout		Guest->Host	Pkts/irq	Host->Guest	Pkts/irq
Before		11.3s		1.0		6.3s		1.0
0		11.7s		1.0		6.6s		23.5
1		17.1s		8.8		8.6s		26.0
1/pending	13.4s		1.9		6.6s		23.8
2/pending	13.6s		2.8		6.6s		24.1
5/pending	14.1s		5.0		6.6s		24.4

Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
parent 95c517c0
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