Interrupts in L4Linux

[Ivan Loskutov]

Hello Norman,

I've done test for nic_bridge, and I've updated page with results
http://ksyslabs.org/doku.php?id=genode_network_perfomance#nic_bridge_test

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Ivan Loskutov



2013/3/20 Norman Feske <norman.feske at ...1...>

> Hi Vasily,
>
> thanks for this nuanced discussion. It helps me lot to understand your
> situation. For example, I didn't have the binary-blob problem on my
> radar at all.
>
> > I agree that would be worth L4Linux seen only as a sandbox for Linux
> > binaries execution. Again, ideologically correct exclude drivers from
> > L4Linux. But there are some problems. In addition to the noticed above
> > there is another one. Is is a performance. Now we make some
> > experiments with L4linux as gateway with two dedicated NIC drivers and
> > L4Linux. And we see that the performance degradation is around 85% in
> > contrast with Linux. That is too much, and if it turns that the moving
> > NIC driver back to L4Linux ( ie if we give acces L4Linux network
> > driver to HW) can decrease performance degradation (security
> > architecture allows to do it), we will use this approach.
>
> I suspect that the poor networking performance stems from the dde_ipxe
> networking driver, not L4Linux. I would definitely recommend to
> benchmark the dde_ipxe networking driver individually without L4Linux.
> E.g., by adding some code to the driver that transmits a predefined
> network packet and measure the throughput achieved.
>
> Another test would be to connect two L4Linux instances via nic_bridge
> and perform the benchmark between both instances. If the communication
> over the virtual network performs well, we can rule out L4Linux and the
> 'Nic_session' interface from being the problem.
>
> > And oddly enough, the applications for the ARM easier develop from
> > scratch and not use L4Linux for binaries execution. While software for
> > network equipment, based on x86, increasingly require re-using.
> > We have not looked NOVA and Vancouver yet. If we can not solve
> > performance problems with L4Linux we will "taste" them.
>
> Please let us know how you like the taste once you try it. ;-)
>
> Norman
>
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