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Willem de Bruijn
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NAPI tx mode improves TCP behavior by enabling TCP small queues (TSQ).
TSQ reduces queuing ("bufferbloat") and burstiness.
Previous measurements have shown significant improvement for
TCP_STREAM style workloads. Such as those in commit 86a5df1495
("Merge branch 'virtio-net-tx-napi'").
There has been uncertainty about smaller possible regressions in
latency due to increased reliance on tx interrupts.
The above results did not show that, nor did I observe this when
rerunning TCP_RR on Linux 5.1 this week on a pair of guests in the
same rack. This may be subject to other settings, notably interrupt
coalescing.
In the unlikely case of regression, we have landed a credible runtime
solution. Ethtool can configure it with -C tx-frames [0|1] as of
commit 0c465be183 ("virtio_net: ethtool tx napi configuration").
NAPI tx mode has been the default in Google Container-Optimized OS
(COS) for over half a year, as of release M70 in October 2018,
without any negative reports.
Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=149305618416472
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/507065/
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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