xen-netback: always fully coalesce guest Rx packets
Always fully coalesce guest Rx packets into the minimum number of ring slots. Reducing the number of slots per packet has significant performance benefits when receiving off-host traffic. Results from XenServer's performance benchmarks: Baseline Full coalesce Interhost VM receive 7.2 Gb/s 11 Gb/s Interhost aggregate 24 Gb/s 24 Gb/s Intrahost single stream 14 Gb/s 14 Gb/s Intrahost aggregate 34 Gb/s 34 Gb/s However, this can increase the number of grant ops per packet which decreases performance of backend (dom0) to VM traffic (by ~10%) /unless/ grant copy has been optimized for adjacent ops with the same source or destination (see "grant-table: defer releasing pages acquired in a grant copy"[1] expected in Xen 4.6). [1] http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-01/msg01118.html Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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