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Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.64.0911230225140.6352@ppwaskie-MOBL2.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:34:54 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
From: "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc: "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ixgbe question
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Hi Peter
>
> I tried a pktgen stress on 82599EB card and could not split RX load on multiple cpus.
>
> Setup is :
>
> One 82599 card with fiber0 looped to fiber1, 10Gb link mode.
> machine is a HPDL380 G6 with dual quadcore E5530 @2.4GHz (16 logical cpus)
Can you specify kernel version and driver version?
>
> I use one pktgen thread sending to fiber0 one many dst IP, and checked that fiber1
> was using many RX queues :
>
> grep fiber1 /proc/interrupts
> 117: 1301 13060 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-0
> 118: 601 1402 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-1
> 119: 634 832 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-2
> 120: 601 1303 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-3
> 121: 620 1246 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-4
> 122: 1287 13088 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-5
> 123: 606 1354 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-6
> 124: 653 827 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-7
> 125: 639 825 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-8
> 126: 596 1199 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-9
> 127: 2013 24800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-10
> 128: 648 1353 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-11
> 129: 601 1123 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-12
> 130: 625 834 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-13
> 131: 665 1409 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-14
> 132: 2637 31699 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1-TxRx-15
> 133: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge fiber1:lsc
>
>
>
> But only one CPU (CPU1) had a softirq running, 100%, and many frames were dropped
>
> root@...odl380g6:/usr/src# ifconfig fiber0
> fiber0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:21:4a:fe:54
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> Packets reçus:4 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:309291576 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
> Octets reçus:1368 (1.3 KB) Octets transmis:18557495682 (18.5 GB)
>
> root@...odl380g6:/usr/src# ifconfig fiber1
> fiber1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:21:4a:fe:55
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> Packets reçus:55122164 erreurs:0 :254169411 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
> Octets reçus:3307330968 (3.3 GB) Octets transmis:1368 (1.3 KB)
I stay in the states too much. I love seeing net stats in French. :-)
>
>
> How and when multi queue rx can really start to use several cpus ?
If you're sending one flow to many consumers, it's still one flow. Even
using RSS won't help, since it requires differing flows to spread load
(5-tuple matches for flow distribution).
Cheers,
-PJ
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