virtio- and vhost- net

Michael S Tsirkin Red Hat

need for speed

Performance challenges

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 TX
Guest
Guest

KVM
KVM tap
tap

qemu
qemu
2
 RX
Guest
Guest

KVM
KVM tap
tap

qemu
qemu
3
 Vhost-net
Guest
Guest

KVM Vhost-net tap

KVMVhost-net tap

qemu
qemu
4
 TX
Guest
Guest

KVM
KVM Vhost-net
Vhost-net tap
tap

5
 RX
Guest
Guest

KVM
KVM Vhost-net
Vhost-net tap
tap

6
 ioeventfd
Guest
Guest

KVM
KVM eventfd
eventfd Vhost-net
Vhost-net

qemu
qemu
7
 ioeventfd
Guest
Guest

KVM
KVM eventfd
eventfd Vhost-net
Vhost-net

qemu
qemu
8
 irqfd
Guest
Guest

KVM
KVM eventfd
eventfd Vhost-net
Vhost-net

qemu
qemu
9
 irqfd
Guest
Guest

KVM
KVM eventfd
eventfd Vhost-net
Vhost-net

qemu
qemu
10
 Mb/s
●
Guest Host ●
Host Guest

vhost
User User vhost
space space
11
 trans/s

vhost

User space
12
 macvtap
Guest
Guest

KVM
KVM Vhost
Vhost tapmacvtap
tap bridge
bridge

NIC
NIC
13
 zcopy
Guest
Guest

KVM
KVM Vhost
Vhost macvtap

NIC
NIC
14
 zcopy
Guest
Guest

KVM
KVM Vhost
Vhost backend

NIC
NIC
15
 Header copy
Guest
Guest hdr

KVM
KVM Vhost
Vhost backend

NIC
NIC
skbuff
16
 alignment
hdr data
Guest
Guest

KVM
KVM Vhost
Vhost backend

NIC
NIC 17
 multiqueue
Guest
TX RX TX RX

TX RX Macvtap TX RX

?
RX NIC
TX TX RX
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 Virtio ring
Avail Desc Used

Guest Vhost
19
 fragmentation
Desc

41 packets
packet
Vhost

20
 new ring
Avail Desc Used

id

Vhost
21
 window
!
Used
Guest Vhost

22
 Publish guest index
!
Used
Guest Vhost

23
 Guest 2 external

Guest
Guest Guest
Guest
KVM
KVM Vhost
Vhost tap
tap bridge
bridge tap Vhost
tap Vhost KVM
KVM

NIC
NIC

Thread per guest 24

Thread per host
 Guest 2 Guest

Guest
Guest Guest
Guest
KVM
KVM Vhost
Vhost tap
tap bridge
bridge tap Vhost
tap Vhost KVM
KVM

Thread per host

Thread per guest 25
 status
●
ioevenfd/irqfd V
●
Vhost-net V
●
Virtio-net tuning V
●
Macvtap V
●
Mergeable buffers V

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 TODO
●
Zero copy +
●
Multiqueue +
●
Virtio ring +
●
Threading ?
●
Level interrupts ?

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