netdev - Re: [E1000-devel] behaviour question for igb on nehalem box

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Date:	Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:20:15 -0700
From:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
To:	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>
CC:	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	"e1000-list ; gospo@...hat.com" <e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Linux Network Development list <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	"Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@...el.com>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] behaviour question for igb on nehalem box

Chris Friesen wrote:
> On 10/09/2009 02:22 PM, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Chris Friesen wrote:
>>> I've got some general questions around the expected behaviour of the
>>> 82576 igb net device.  (On a dual quad-core Nehalem box, if it matters.)
> 
>> the hardware you have only supports 8 
>> queues (rx and tx) and the driver is configured to only set up 4 max.
> 
> The datasheet for the 82576 says 16 tx queues and 16 rx queues.  Is that
> a typo or do we have the economy version?

Actually the limitation is due to the fact that there are only 10 
interrupts available.  On kernels that support TX multi-queue the number 
of queues would be 4 TX and 4 RX, which would consume 8 interrupts 
leaving 1 for the link status change and one unused.

However on the kernel you are using I don't believe multi-queue NAPI is 
enabled so you shouldn't have multiple RX queues either.  On a 2.6.18 
kernel you should have only 1 RX and 1 TX queue unless you are using the 
driver provided on e1000.sourceforge.net which uses fake netdevs to 
support multi-queue NAPI.  I believe this may be a bug that was 
introduced when SR-IOV support was back-ported from the 2.6.30 kernel.

>>> My second question is around how the rx queues are mapped to interrupts.
>>>  According to /proc/interrupts there appears to be a 1:1 mapping between
>>> queues and interrupts.  However, I've set up at test with a given amount
>>> of traffic coming in to the device (from 4 different IP addresses and 4
>>> ports).  Under this scenario, "ethtool -S" shows the number of packets
>>> increasing for only rx queue 0, but I see the interrupt count going up
>>> for two interrupts.
>> one transmit interrupt and one receive interrupt?
> 
> No, two rx interrupts.  (Can't remember if the tx interrupt was going up
> as well or no...was only looking at rx.)

This may be due to the bug I mentioned above.  Multiple RX queues 
shouldn't be present on the 2.6.18 kernel as I do not believe 
multi-queue NAPI has been back-ported and it could have negative effects.

>> RSS will spread the 
>> receive work out in a flow based way, based on ip/xDP header.  Your test 
>> as described should be using more than one flow (and therefore more than 
>> one rx queue) unless you got caught out by the default arp_filter 
>> behavior (check arp -an).
> 
> I was surprised as well since it didn't match what I expected.  What's
> the story around the arp_filter?  I just logged onto the test box and
> "arp -an" gives:
> 
> ? (47.135.251.129) at 00:00:5E:00:01:08 [ether] on eth0
> 
> but I'm not sure that's worth anything since someone is running a test
> and it's currently using all four rx queues and all four rx interrupt
> counts are increasing.  I'll have to see if they changed anything.
> 
> 
>> Hope this helps,
> 
> That's great, thanks.
> 
> Chris
> 
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