Am 20.02.2016 um 08:25 schrieb Alexandre DERUMIER <aderum...@odiso.com>:
>>> Some articles, for instance >>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2009/ols2009-pages-169-184.pdf, >>> explicitly recommend disabling irqbalance when 10GbE is involved. >>> >>> Do you know if this is still true today? After all, the paper is from 2009. > > Well, the article is about to disabling irqbalance AND manually binding cpus > on network interfaces. > > Manual binding is better because you can fine tuning. > > But using irqbalance vs do nothing, irqbalance wins. > > I have seen a lot of system, using only cpu0 for network interrupts for > example. > > Benching ceph, I was stuck around 100000iops 4k (client side/proxmox host) > without irqbalance, and 300000 iops with irqbalance. > (This was with 10gbe mellanox cards) Sadly there is various Hardware and chips out there crashing with irqbalance. That's why I removed it from all machines and tune where needed. Have a look at red hats tuned which is much better and open source at fedora. By the way how did you get 300000 iops? How many clients and threads involved? Greets, Stefan > > > ----- Mail original ----- > De: "Martin Waschbüsch" <serv...@waschbuesch.it> > À: "pve-devel" <pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com> > Envoyé: Vendredi 19 Février 2016 15:42:09 > Objet: Re: [pve-devel] pve-kernel package : add irqbalance as recommended > ? (like debian linux-image package) > > Hi Alexandre, > >> Am 19.02.2016 um 15:06 schrieb Alexandre DERUMIER <aderum...@odiso.com>: >> >> Hi, >> >> I think it could be great to add irqbalance as recommends package for >> pve-kernel. >> >> I have seen a lot of improvement, mainly with network access (ceph for >> example), >> when a lot of network interrupts occurs and goes to the same cpu. > > Some articles, for instance > https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2009/ols2009-pages-169-184.pdf, > explicitly recommend disabling irqbalance when 10GbE is involved. > > Do you know if this is still true today? After all, the paper is from 2009. > > Best, > > Martin > _______________________________________________ > pve-devel mailing list > pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com > http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel > > _______________________________________________ > pve-devel mailing list > pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com > http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
