> On Aug 24, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Rick Macklem <rmack...@uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>
> Daniel Braniss wrote:
>>
>>> On 24 Aug 2015, at 10:22, Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/24/15 01:02, Rick Macklem wrote:
>>>> The other thing is the degradation seems to cut the rate by about half
>>>> each time.
>>>> 300-->150-->70 I have no idea if this helps to explain it.
>>>
>>> Might be a NUMA binding issue for the processes involved.
>>>
>>> man cpuset
>>>
>>> --HPS
>>
>> I can’t see how this is relevant, given that the same host, using the
>> mellanox/mlxen
>> behave much better.
> Well, the "ix" driver has a bunch of tunables for things like "number of
> queues"
> and although I'll admit I don't understand how these queues are used, I think
> they are related to CPUs and their caches. There is also something called
> IXGBE_FDIR,
> which others have recommended be disabled. (The code is #ifdef IXGBE_FDIR,
> but I don't
> know if it defined for your kernel?) There are also tunables for interrupt
> rate and
> something called hw.ixgbe_tx_process_limit, which appears to limit the number
> of packets
> to send or something like that?
> (I suspect Hans would understand this stuff much better than I do, since I
> don't understand
> it at all.;-)
>
but how does this explain the fact that, at the same time,
the throughput to the NetApp is about 70MG/s while to
a FreeBSD it’s above 150MB/s? (window size negotiation?)
switching off TSO evens out this diff.
> At a glance, the mellanox driver looks very different.
>
>> I’m getting different results with the intel/ix depending who is the nfs
>> server
>>
> Who knows until you figure out what is actually going on. It could just be
> the timing of
> handling the write RPCs or when the different servers send acks for the TCP
> segments or ...
> that causes this for one server and not another.
>
> One of the principals used when investigating airplane accidents is to "never
> assume anything"
> and just try to collect the facts until the pieces of the puzzle fall in
> place. I think the
> same principal works for this kind of stuff.
> I once had a case where a specific read of one NFS file would fail on certain
> machines.
> I won't bore you with the details, but after weeks we got to the point where
> we had a lab
> of identical machines (exactly the same hardware and exactly the same
> software loaded on them)
> and we could reproduce this problem on about half the machines and not the
> other half. We
> (myself and the guy I worked with) finally noticed the failing machines were
> on network ports
> for a given switch. We moved the net cables to another switch and the problem
> went away.
> --> This particular network switch was broken in such a way that it would
> garble one specific
> packet consistently, but worked fine for everything else.
> My point here is that, if someone had suggested the "network switch might be
> broken" at the
> beginning of investigating this, I would have probably dismissed it, based on
> "the network is
> working just fine", but in the end, that was the problem.
> --> I am not suggesting you have a broken network switch, just "don't take
> anything off the
> table until you know what is actually going on".
>
> And to be honest, you may never know, but it is fun to try and solve these
> puzzles.
one needs to find the clues …
at the moment:
when things go bad, they stay bad
ix/nfs/tcp/tso and NetApp
when things are ok, the numbers fluctuate, which is probably due to
loads
on the system, but they are far above the 70MB/s (100 to 200)
> Beyond what I already suggested, I'd look at the "ix" driver's stats and
> tunables and
> see if any of the tunables has an effect. (And, yes, it will take time to
> work through these.)
>
> Good luck with it, rick
>
>>
>> danny
>>
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