On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Andre Oppermann wrote:
Distributing the interrupts and taskqueues among the available CPUs gives
concurrent forwarding with bi- or multi-directional traffic. All incoming
traffic from any particular interface is still serialized though.
... although not on multiple input queue-enabled hardware and drivers. While
I've really only focused on local traffic performance with my 10gbps Chelsio
setup, it should be possible to do packet forwarding from multiple input
queues using that hardware and driver today.
I'll update the netisr2 patches, which allow work to be pushed to multiple
CPUs from a single input queue. However, these necessarily take a cache miss
or two on packet header data in order to break out the packets from the input
queue into flows that can be processed independently without ordering
constraints, so if those cache misses on header data are a big part of the
performance of a configuration, load balancing in this manner may not help.
What would be neat is if the cards without multiple input queues could still
tag receive descriptors with a flow identifier generated from the IP/TCP/etc
layers that could be used for work placement.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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Andre
I would be willing to set up test equipment (several servers plugged into a
switch) with ipkvm and power port access
if someone or a group of people want to figure out ways to improve the
routing process, ipfw, and lagg.
Maximum PPS with one ipfw rule on UP:
tops out about 570Kpps.. almost 200kpps lower ? (frown)
I'm going to drop in a 3ghz opteron instead of the 2ghz 2212 that's in here
and see how that scales, using UP same kernel etc I have now.
Julian Elischer wrote:
Paul wrote:
ULE without PREEMPTION is now yeilding better results.
input (em0) output
packets errs bytes packets errs bytes colls
571595 40639 34564108 1 0 226 0
577892 48865 34941908 1 0 178 0
545240 84744 32966404 1 0 178 0
587661 44691 35534512 1 0 178 0
587839 38073 35544904 1 0 178 0
587787 43556 35540360 1 0 178 0
540786 39492 32712746 1 0 178 0
572071 55797 34595650 1 0 178 0
*OUCH, IPFW HURTS..
loading ipfw, and adding one ipfw rule allow ip from any to any drops
100Kpps off :/ what's up with THAT?
unloaded ipfw module and back 100kpps more again, that's not right with
ONE rule.. :/
ipfw need sto gain a lock on hte firewall before running,
and is quite complex.. I can believe it..
in FreeBSD 4.8 I was able to use ipfw and filter 1Gb between two
interfaces (bridged) but I think it has slowed down since then due to the
SMP locking.
em0 taskq is still jumping cpus.. is there any way to lock it to one cpu
or is this just a function of ULE
running a tar czpvf all.tgz * and seeing if pps changes..
negligible.. guess scheduler is doing it's job at least..
Hmm. even when it's getting 50-60k errors per second on the interface I
can still SCP a file through that interface although it's not fast..
3-4MB/s..
You know, I wouldn't care if it added 5ms latency to the packets when it
was doing 1mpps as long as it didn't drop any.. Why can't it do that?
Queue them up and do them in bigggg chunks so none are
dropped........hmm?
32 bit system is compiling now.. won't do > 400kpps with GENERIC kernel,
as with 64 bit did 450k with GENERIC, although that could be
the difference between opteron 270 and opteron 2212..
Paul
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