Re: performance bug in virtio net xdp

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Wed May 06 2020 - 07:57:50 EST


On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 04:37:41PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>
> On 2020/5/6 äå4:08, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > So for mergeable bufs, we use ewma machinery to guess the correct buffer
> > size. If we don't guess correctly, XDP has to do aggressive copies.
> >
> > Problem is, xdp paths do not update the ewma at all, except
> > sometimes with XDP_PASS. So whatever we happen to have
> > before we attach XDP, will mostly stay around.
>
>
> It looks ok to me since we always use PAGE_SIZE when XDP is enabled in
> get_mergeable_buf_len()?
>
> Thanks
>

Oh right. Good point! Answered in another thread.

> >
> > The fix is probably to update ewma unconditionally.
> >