Re: OpenBSD 6.6 amd64 iavf(4) iavf / SR-iov 40G NIC lots of Jitter

2019-12-28 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello just to update this thread I setup OpenBSD 6.6 Release on Proxmox 6.1 with an intel 82599ES 10G nic physical function pass through and there was no issues with jitter at all.. so that throws my SR-IOV / PCI Bridge issue theory out the window... so the jitter issue seems to be an issue with

Re: OpenBSD 6.6 amd64 iavf(4) iavf / SR-iov 40G NIC lots of Jitter

2019-11-03 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello, from bare metal testing the ixl driver didn't have any jitter, but when IXL card it was passed through with SR-IOV on a KVM virtual machine there was jitter, so i'm thinking the issue is in the virtual machines handling of the PCI-PCI bridge I'm assuming based on the above test the iavf dri

Re: OpenBSD 6.6 amd64 iavf(4) iavf / SR-iov 40G NIC lots of Jitter

2019-10-22 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi, I ran another test with virtio net drivers on the same Q35 type vm guest in KVM and the pings were a lot more stable. --- 10.4.24.1 ping statistics --- 1000 packets transmitted, 1000 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 0.223/0.394/3.766/0.172 ms pcidump open

Re: OpenBSD 6.6 amd64 iavf(4) iavf / SR-iov 40G NIC lots of Jitter

2019-10-21 Thread Consus
On 13:33 Sun 20 Oct, Joseph Mayer wrote: > Tom, is not the jitter you are experiencing totally normal overhead > for a hypervisor. Are you sure? E.g. VM (centos) on busy as hell Proxmox instance: # ping -c 5 8.8.8.8 PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes fro

Re: OpenBSD 6.6 amd64 iavf(4) iavf / SR-iov 40G NIC lots of Jitter

2019-10-20 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Joseph Thanks for your email and suggestion Basically the vm is running 2 cores of a 20 core server with only one other 2 cote vm running My experience would expect jitter of no more than 2 -4ms in running openbsd on kvm where contention on cores is minimal The virtio setup... using the h

Re: OpenBSD 6.6 amd64 iavf(4) iavf / SR-iov 40G NIC lots of Jitter

2019-10-20 Thread Joseph Mayer
Tom, is not the jitter you are experiencing totally normal overhead for a hypervisor. Someone would need to correct me on this one but I'm surprised that you are surprised about the jitter, considering it's a VM. Please run OpenBSD on bare metal?? Joseph ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sund

Re: OpenBSD 6.6 amd64 iavf(4) iavf / SR-iov 40G NIC lots of Jitter

2019-10-19 Thread Tom Smyth
just to say when testing this I was running the openbsd6.6vm with one other vm as a guest on a proxmox 6.0 / KVM Host, with 2x Intel 10 Core Xeon E5 v2 Xeons, with no hyperthreading on the host. what other tests can I run to help identify the source / cause of the jitter Thanks Tom Smyth On

OpenBSD 6.6 amd64 iavf(4) iavf / SR-iov 40G NIC lots of Jitter

2019-10-19 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello, Thanks to Jonathan Matthew and DLG for their work on ixl and iavf drivers and everyone else who worked on it.. One thing I have noticed in trying out this driver on 6.5+ current and 6.6 release is that while the latency is low... there is quite considerable Jitter during simple ping te