Cc Michael
On 2016年11月08日 16:34, Zhangming (James, Euler) wrote:
In container scenario, OVS is installed in the Virtual machine, and
all the containers connected to the OVS will communicated through
VXLAN encapsulation.
By now, virtio_net does not support TSO offload for VXLAN encapsulated
TSO package. In this condition, the performance is not good, sender is
bottleneck
I googled this scenario, but I didn’t find any information. Will
virtio_net support VXLAN encapsulation package TSO offload later?
Yes and for both sender and receiver.
My idea is virtio_net open encapsulated TSO offload, and transport
encapsulation info to TUN, TUN will parse the info and build skb with
encapsulation info.
OVS or kernel on the host should be modified to support this. Using
this method, the TCP performance aremore than 2x as before.
Any advice and suggestions for this idea or new idea will be greatly
appreciated!
Best regards,
James zhang
Sounds very good. And we may also need features bits
(VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST|HOST_GSO_X) for this.
This is in fact one of items in networking todo list. (See
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/NetworkingTodo). While at it, we'd better
support not only VXLAN but also other tunnels.
We can start with the spec work, or if you've already had some bits you
can post them as RFC for early review.
Thanks
