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Date:	Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:36:51 -0800
From:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
To:	Chris Caputo <ccaputo-dated-1268032962.0a05a1@....net>
cc:	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bonding forwarding perf issues in 2.6.32.7 & 2.6.29.6

Chris Caputo <ccaputo@....net> wrote:

>Kernel 2.6.32.7 (and 2.6.32.5 & 2.6.29.6) on a 2x Intel Xeon E5420 
>(Quad-Core 2.5Ghz), SuperMicro X7DBE+, 32GB (16 * 2GB) DDR2-667MHz.
>
>I have a router with a variety of e1000 and e1000e based interfaces.
>
>bond0 is a 2xGigE (82571EB) with two active slaves.
>
>bond1 has up to 3 slaves (2x 80003ES2LAN/82563, 82546EB).
>
>Both are configured with miimon=100, balance-xor, layer3+4.
>
>When bond1 has just a single active slave, outbound (and possibly inbound) 
>forwarding performance on bond1 is better than when it has two or three 
>active slaves.  Ie., when I activate the second slave, by enabling the 
>port on the switch it is connected to, forwarding performance drops 
>dramatically across the full bond1.

	What exactly do you mean by "forwarding performance drops
dramatically"?  How are you measuring this?

	Also, just to confirm, are the switch ports connected to the
respective bonds also grouped on the switch?  The balance-xor mode is
meant to interop with an Etherchannel compatible switch port
aggregation.

>Locally originated packets do not seem to be harmed by the second GigE 
>coming online.  From what I have observed, the issue is with forwarding.  
>The majority of the forwarding traffic is coming in on bond0 and egressing 
>on bond1.

	Perhaps it has something to do with forwarding causing LRO to be
disabled.

	-J

>I have tried changing IRQ binding in a variety of ways (same CPU, same 
>core, different cores, paired based on bond, irqbalance) and it hasn't 
>helped.
>
>I have tried having one of bond1's GigEs be on a separate bus with a 
>separate NIC, to no avail.
>
>Oprofiling (data below) does not reveal much time is being spent in the 
>bonding driver.  bond_start_xmit() is the peak for the bonding driver, at 
>less than 1% regardless of how many interfaces are bound.
>
>Does anyone have any tips on how I should try to narrow down this further?
>
>Thanks,
>Chris
>
>---
>
>bond1 with just one 80003ES2LAN/82563 active:
>
>samples  %        image name               app name                 symbol name
>114103   13.4161  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         ipt_do_table
>24447     2.8745  e1000e.ko                e1000e.ko                e1000_xmit_frame
>23687     2.7851  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         dev_queue_xmit
>19088     2.2444  e1000e.ko                e1000e.ko                e1000_clean_tx_irq
>18820     2.2128  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         skb_copy_bits
>16028     1.8846  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         skb_segment
>15013     1.7652  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         __slab_free
>14187     1.6681  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         __slab_alloc
>13649     1.6048  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         mwait_idle
>13177     1.5493  e1000e.ko                e1000e.ko                e1000_irq_enable
>13017     1.5305  bgpd                     bgpd                     bgp_process_announce_selected
>12242     1.4394  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         __alloc_skb
>11186     1.3152  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         ip_vs_in
>11054     1.2997  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         find_vma
>10861     1.2770  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         ip_rcv
>10724     1.2609  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         nf_iterate
>10659     1.2533  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         kmem_cache_alloc
>
>bond1 with a 80003ES2LAN/82563 and a 82546EB active:
>
>samples  %        image name               app name                 symbol name
>36249    14.1261  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         ipt_do_table
>5985      2.3323  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         skb_copy_bits
>5731      2.2333  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         __slab_free
>5496      2.1418  e1000.ko                 e1000.ko                 e1000_clean
>5489      2.1390  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         dev_queue_xmit
>5247      2.0447  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         mwait_idle
>5090      1.9835  e1000e.ko                e1000e.ko                e1000_xmit_frame
>5025      1.9582  e1000e.ko                e1000e.ko                e1000_irq_enable
>4777      1.8616  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         __slab_alloc
>4714      1.8370  e1000e.ko                e1000e.ko                e1000_clean_tx_irq
>4102      1.5985  e1000.ko                 e1000.ko                 e1000_intr
>4004      1.5603  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         skb_segment
>3924      1.5292  e1000e.ko                e1000e.ko                e1000_intr_msi
>3867      1.5070  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         __alloc_skb
>3424      1.3343  e1000.ko                 e1000.ko                 e1000_xmit_frame
>3225      1.2568  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         find_vma
>3148      1.2268  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         kfree
>
>bond1 with 2x 80003ES2LAN/82563 active and a 82546EB active:
>
>samples  %        image name               app name                 symbol name
>28124    14.5651  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         ipt_do_table
>5725      2.9649  e1000e.ko                e1000e.ko                e1000_irq_enable
>5077      2.6293  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         mwait_idle
>4374      2.2652  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         skb_copy_bits
>4277      2.2150  e1000e.ko                e1000e.ko                e1000_intr_msi
>4224      2.1876  e1000e.ko                e1000e.ko                e1000_xmit_frame
>3863      2.0006  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         __slab_free
>3826      1.9814  e1000e.ko                e1000e.ko                e1000_clean_tx_irq
>3682      1.9069  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         dev_queue_xmit
>3512      1.8188  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         __slab_alloc
>3191      1.6526  e1000.ko                 e1000.ko                 e1000_clean
>3042      1.5754  e1000.ko                 e1000.ko                 e1000_intr
>2540      1.3154  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         __alloc_skb
>2425      1.2559  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         ip_rcv
>2406      1.2460  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         skb_segment
>2333      1.2082  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         nf_iterate
>2329      1.2062  vmlinux-2.6.32.7         vmlinux-2.6.32.7         ip_vs_in
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