linux-kernel - Re: This is the fourth time I've tried to find what led to the regression of outgoing network speed and each time I find the merge commit 8c94ccc7cd691472461448f98e2372c75849406c

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 22:08:20 +0500
From: mikhail.v.gavrilov@...il.com
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Mathias Nyman
	 <mathias.nyman@...ux.intel.com>, Linux regressions mailing list
	 <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>
Cc: "Christian A. Ehrhardt" <lk@...e.de>, niklas.neronin@...ux.intel.com, 
 Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Greg KH
 <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,  x86@...nel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: This is the fourth time I've tried to find what led to the
 regression of outgoing network speed and each time I find the merge commit
 8c94ccc7cd691472461448f98e2372c75849406c

On Mon, 2024-02-26 at 19:09 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> we don't have any information about the overall workload,

During measurements nothing was running except iperf3

> other interrupt sources on CPU0 and their frequency. That'd need to
> be investigated with instrumentation and might unearth some
> completely different underlying reason causing this behavior.

I made simple bash script for benchmark enp14s0 on each of CPU core.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
for i in {0..31}
do
	smp_affinity=$(echo 'obase=16; '$((2 ** i)) | bc)
	echo "echo $smp_affinity > /proc/irq/84/smp_affinity"
	echo $smp_affinity > /proc/irq/84/smp_affinity
	echo 'iperf3 -c primary-ws.local -t 5 -p 5000 -P 1'
	iperf3 -c primary-ws.local -t 5 -p 5000 -P 1
done

And attach here results of iperf3 for kernels 6.7.0 and 6.8.0-rc6.
Which once again makes sure that CPU0 is a bad option in both cases.
And any other CPU does not necessarily 23 allow the network interface
to operate at the limit of the capabilities of the network cable.

I also attach /proc/interrupts I hope this helps clear things up.

I don't know how else to help you. What information to provide.

About repeatability my "unlucky" scenario.
I have two MSI MPG B650I EDGE WIFI motherboards and this problem
happened both at the same time.

It seems the problem has always been there, we just never noticed it.

-- 
Best Regards,
Mike Gavrilov.

Download attachment "benchmarking-6.7.0-all-cores.zip" of type "application/zip" (2152 bytes)

Download attachment "benchmarking-6.8.0-0.rc6-all-cores.zip" of type "application/zip" (2282 bytes)

Download attachment "proc-interrupts.zip" of type "application/zip" (2882 bytes)