Hi,
Interesting, maybe ng_eiface + if_bridge is a good idea .
Simon
20200422
On 4/21/20 8:51 PM, Jan Bramkamp wrote:
On 16.04.20 08:34, Pavel Timofeev wrote:
вт, 14 апр. 2020 г., 12:51 Kristof Provost <k...@freebsd.org>:
Hi,
Thanks to support from The FreeBSD Foundation I’ve been able to work
on improving the throughput of if_bridge.
It changes the (data path) locking to use the NET_EPOCH infrastructure.
Benchmarking shows substantial improvements (x5 in test setups).
This work is ready for wider testing now.
It’s under review here: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24250
Patch for CURRENT: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24250?download=true
Patches for stable/12:
https://people.freebsd.org/~kp/if_bridge/stable_12/
I’m not currently aware of any panics or issues resulting from these
patches.
Do note that if you run a Bhyve + tap on bridges setup the tap code
suffers from a similar bottleneck and you will likely not see major
improvements in single VM to host throughput. I would expect, but have
not tested, improvements in overall throughput (i.e. when multiple VMs
send traffic at the same time).
Best regards,
Kristof
Hi!
Thank you for your work!
Do you know if epair suffers from the same issue as tap?
As Kirstof Provost said if_epair locks has per CPU locks, but a problem
exists a layer about the epair driver. At leas on FreeBSD 12.0 and 12.1
all the packet processing happens in a single netisr thread that becomes
CPU bound and limits how fast useful traffic can move through epair
interfaces. Afaik TCP doesn't benifit from multiple netisr threads, but
unorderer protocols (e.g. UDP) could profit from multiple threads.
I have only tested with iperf (using multiple connections) between the
FreeBSD 12.x host and a vnet enabled jail connected via an epair
interface and maxed out at about 1-2Gb/s depending on the CPUs single
threaded throughput.
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