Re: [Xen-devel] Reduce CPU Utilization make Network Perfromancebetter??

[Brian Fang <m9429015@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for reply.

It's really helpful to realize the reason about reducing CPU utilization.
And it is told me that, Xen and Native Linux achive line rate under 1 Gps is 
truth.
Same as experimental I've done shows.
I perhaps need to obtain bandwith within 10 Gbps to make deference between 
Xen and Native Linux.
Sincerely,
Brian Fang
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Santos, Jose Renato G" <joserenato.santos@xxxxxx>
To: "Mark Williamson" <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; 
<xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Brian Fang" <m9429015@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 1:57 AM
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Reduce CPU Utilization make Network 
Perfromancebetter??


Just adding a few comments to Mark's reply

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > Mark Williamson
> > Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 8:22 PM
> > To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Brian Fang
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Reduce CPU Utilization make Network
> > Perfromancebetter??
> >
> > > I don't know if the guess condition is wright.
> > > But I still not figure out how the improvement benefit
> > network throughput.
> > > Is it because lower CPU utilization higher packet process rate??
> >
> > Presumably because the CPU processing required to interact
> > with the network can becomes a bottleneck; therefore
> > improving the CPU efficiency should increase the throughput.
> >  It's been a long time since I read that paper, but when we
> > did the first driver domains benchmarks in 2004 we were
> > burning up a significant fraction of the CPU bandwidth of a
> > 2-way Xeon in order to achieve line rate on gigabit ethernet.
 Yes, for gigabit NICs both Xen and linux can achieve
 line rate with modern machines
 As we move to 10Gb/s NICs the CPU will become the bottleneck,
 thus reducing the CPU cost should enable Xen to get better
 network throughput.

> > Also, improving the CPU utilisation encountered in the
> > course of network processing should make more CPU time
> > available to other work, which would be good.
 Right! Domains do more than just networking. Freeing cycles
 from the network stack should improve application performance.
 While the experiments are done using a micro network
 benchamark (netperf), real applications will have to do real
 work in addition to network processing.

> > > Why not show network throught directly??
 Because it is not interesting. Both Xen and linux can
 saturate a 1 Gb/s NIC and thus achieve the same
 throughput.


> > Presumably in the case of this paper the goal was to
> > illustrate the kind of measurements that Xenoprof can make
> > and the improvements in those measurements that can be
> > achieved with targetted modifications to the codebase.
 Actually the goal is to improve efficiency of Xen networking,
 to free cycles for the application and to scale to higher
 network bandwidth (i.e. 10 Gb/s)

> > I agree it would have been interesting to see what effects
> > on the network throughput were but I guess these would vary
> > between different machines and network loads in any case.
> >
> > Just my two cents ;-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mark
> >
> > --
> > Dave: Just a question. What use is a unicyle with no seat?
> > And no pedals!
> > Mark: To answer a question with a question: What use is a skateboard?
> > Dave: Skateboards have wheels.
> > Mark: My wheel has a wheel!
> >
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