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    "date": "2018-09-06T18:19:36",
    "name": "[v5,00/11] implement packed virtqueues",
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        "name": "Jens Freimann",
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            "date": "2018-09-06T18:19:36",
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        "From": "Jens Freimann <jfreimann@redhat.com>",
        "To": "dev@dpdk.org",
        "Cc": "tiwei.bie@intel.com,\n\tmaxime.coquelin@redhat.com",
        "Date": "Thu,  6 Sep 2018 19:19:36 +0100",
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        "Subject": "[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 00/11] implement packed virtqueues",
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    "content": "This is a basic implementation of packed virtqueues as specified in the\nVirtio 1.1 draft. A compiled version of the current draft is available\nat https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-docs.git (or as .pdf at\nhttps://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-docs/blob/master/virtio-v1.1-packed-wd10.pdf\n\nIt does not implement yet indirect descriptors and checksum offloading.\n\nA packed virtqueue is different from a split virtqueue in that it\nconsists of only a single descriptor ring that replaces available and\nused ring, index and descriptor buffer.\n\nEach descriptor is readable and writable and has a flags field. These flags\nwill mark if a descriptor is available or used.  To detect new available descriptors\neven after the ring has wrapped, device and driver each have a\nsingle-bit wrap counter that is flipped from 0 to 1 and vice versa every time\nthe last descriptor in the ring is used/made available.\n\nThe idea behind this is to 1. improve performance by avoiding cache misses\nand 2. be easier for devices to implement.\n\nRegarding performance: with these patches I get 21.13 Mpps on my system\nas compared to 18.8 Mpps with the virtio 1.0 code. Packet size was 64\nbytes, 0.05% acceptable loss.  Test setup is described as in\nhttp://dpdk.org/doc/guides/howto/pvp_reference_benchmark.html\n\nPacket generator:\nMoonGen\nIntel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2665 0 @ 2.40GHz\nIntel X710 NIC\nRHEL 7.4\n\nDevice under test:\nIntel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2667 v4 @ 3.20GHz\nIntel X710 NIC\nRHEL 7.4\n\nVM on DuT: RHEL7.4\n\nI plan to do more performance test with bigger frame sizes.\n\n\nchanges from v4->v5:\n* fix VIRTQUEUE_DUMP macro\n* fix wrap counter logic in transmit and receive functions  \n\nchanges from v3->v4:\n* added helpers to increment index and set available/used flags\n* driver keeps track of number of descriptors used\n* change logic in set_rxtx_funcs()\n* add patch for ctrl virtqueue with support for packed virtqueues\n* rename virtio-1.1.h to virtio-packed.h\n* fix wrong sizeof() in \"vhost: vring address setup for packed queues\"\n* fix coding style of function definition in \"net/virtio: add packed\n  virtqueue helpers\"\n* fix padding in vring_size()\n* move patches to enable packed virtqueues end of series\n* v4 has two open problems: I'm sending it out anyway for feedback/help:\n * when VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF enabled only 128 packets are send in\n   guest, i.e. when ring is full for the first time. I suspect a bug in\n   setting the avail/used flags\n\nchanges from v2->v3:\n* implement event suppression\n* add code do dump packed virtqueues\n* don't use assert in vhost code\n* rename virtio-user parameter to packed-vq\n* support rxvf flush\n\nchanges from v1->v2:\n* don't use VIRTQ_DESC_F_NEXT in used descriptors (Jason)\n* no rte_panice() in guest triggerable code (Maxime)\n* use unlikely when checking for vq (Maxime)\n* rename everything from _1_1 to _packed  (Yuanhan)\n* add two more patches to implement mergeable receive buffers\n\n\nJens Freimann (10):\n  net/virtio: vring init for packed queues\n  net/virtio: add virtio 1.1 defines\n  net/virtio: add packed virtqueue helpers\n  net/virtio: flush packed receive virtqueues\n  net/virtio: dump packed virtqueue data\n  net/virtio: implement transmit path for packed queues\n  net/virtio: implement receive path for packed queues\n  net/virtio: disable ctrl virtqueue for packed rings\n  net/virtio: add support for mergeable buffers with packed virtqueues\n  net/virtio: add support for event suppression\n\nYuanhan Liu (1):\n  net/virtio-user: add option to use packed queues\n\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c            |  50 ++-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.h            |   4 +\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_pci.h               |   8 +\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ring.h              |  85 ++++-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c              | 360 +++++++++++++++++-\n .../net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c  |  10 +-\n .../net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.h  |   2 +-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c       |  14 +-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.c                |  17 +\n drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.h                | 113 +++++-\n 10 files changed, 630 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)"
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