netdev - Re: Latency difference between fifo and pfifo

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Date:	Tue, 6 Dec 2011 19:39:13 +0100
From:	Dave Taht <dave.taht@...il.com>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	"John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@...nsourcedevel.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Latency difference between fifo and pfifo_fast

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com> wrote:
> On 12/06/2011 12:51 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>
>> Le mardi 06 décembre 2011 à 03:39 -0500, John A. Sullivan III a écrit :
>>
>>>> ifconfig eth2 txqueuelen 0
>>>> tc qdisc add dev eth2 root pfifo
>>>> tc qdisc del dev eth2 root
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Really? I didn't know one could do that.  Thanks.  However, with no
>>> queue length, do I have a significant risk of dropping packets? To
>>> answer your other response's question, these are Intel quad port e1000
>>> cards.  We are frequently pushing them to near line speed so
>>> 1,000,000,000 / 1534 / 8 = 81,486 pps - John
>>
>>
>> You can remove qdisc layer, since NIC itself has a TX ring queue
>>
>> (check exact value with ethtool -g ethX)
>>
>> # ethtool -g eth2
>> Ring parameters for eth2:
>> Pre-set maximums:
>> RX:             4078
>> RX Mini:        0
>> RX Jumbo:       0
>> TX:             4078
>> Current hardware settings:
>> RX:             254
>> RX Mini:        0
>> RX Jumbo:       0
>> TX:             4078      ---- HERE ----
>
>
> And while you are down at the NIC, if every microsecond is precious (no
> matter how close to epsilon compared to the latencies of spinning rust :)
> you might consider disabling interrupt coalescing via ethtool -C.
>
> rick jones

Ya know, me being me, and if latency is your real problem, I can't help
but think you'd do better by reducing those tx queues enormously,
applying QFQ and maybe something like RED on top, would balance
out the differences between flows and result in a net benefit.

I realize that you are struggling to achieve line rate in the first place...

but from where I sit (with asbestos suit on), it would be an interesting
experiment. (I have no data on how much cpu this stuff uses at these
sort of speeds)

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