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Message-ID: <w2t65634d661004160835z4a604ee7pb5f9d395fe61b5db@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:35:07 -0700
From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] rfs: Receive Flow Steering
Eric, thanks for testing that. Admittedly, we have looked at enabling
RFS/RPS over loopback. I'll look at that today also.
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> Le jeudi 15 avril 2010 à 23:33 -0700, David Miller a écrit :
>> From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
>> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:47:08 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>> > Version 5 of RFS:
>> > - Moved rps_sock_flow_sysctl into net/core/sysctl_net_core.c as a
>> > static function.
>> > - Apply limits to rps_sock_flow_entires systcl and rps_flow_count
>> > sysfs variable.
>>
>> I've read this over a few times and I think it's ready to go into
>> net-next-2.6, we can tweak things as-needed from here on out.
>>
>> Eric, what do you think?
>
> I read the patch and found no error.
>
> I booted a test machine and performed some tests
>
> I am a bit worried of a tbench regression I am looking at right now.
>
> if RFS disabled , tbench 16 -> 4408.63 MB/sec
>
>
> # grep . /sys/class/net/lo/queues/rx-0/*
> /sys/class/net/lo/queues/rx-0/rps_cpus:00000000
> /sys/class/net/lo/queues/rx-0/rps_flow_cnt:8192
> # cat /proc/sys/net/core/rps_sock_flow_entries
> 8192
>
>
> echo ffff >/sys/class/net/lo/queues/rx-0/rps_cpus
>
> tbench 16 -> 2336.32 MB/sec
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> PerfTop: 14561 irqs/sec kernel:86.3% [1000Hz cycles], (all, 16 CPUs)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> samples pcnt function DSO
> _______ _____ ______________________________ __________________________________________________________
>
> 2664.00 5.1% copy_user_generic_string /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 2323.00 4.4% acpi_os_read_port /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 1641.00 3.1% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 1260.00 2.4% schedule /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 1159.00 2.2% _raw_spin_lock /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 1051.00 2.0% tcp_ack /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 991.00 1.9% tcp_sendmsg /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 922.00 1.8% tcp_recvmsg /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 821.00 1.6% child_run /usr/bin/tbench
> 766.00 1.5% all_string_sub /usr/bin/tbench
> 630.00 1.2% __switch_to /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 608.00 1.2% __GI_strchr /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so
> 606.00 1.2% ipt_do_table /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 600.00 1.1% __GI_strstr /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so
> 556.00 1.1% __netif_receive_skb /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 504.00 1.0% tcp_transmit_skb /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 502.00 1.0% tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 481.00 0.9% _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 473.00 0.9% next_token /usr/bin/tbench
> 449.00 0.9% ip_rcv /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 423.00 0.8% call_function_single_interrupt /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 422.00 0.8% ia32_sysenter_target /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 420.00 0.8% compat_sys_socketcall /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 401.00 0.8% mod_timer /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 400.00 0.8% process_backlog /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 399.00 0.8% ip_queue_xmit /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 387.00 0.7% select_task_rq_fair /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 377.00 0.7% _raw_spin_lock_bh /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
> 360.00 0.7% tcp_v4_rcv /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc3-03375-ga4fbf84-dirty/build/vmlinux
>
> But if RFS is on, why activating rps_cpus change tbench ?
>
>
>
>
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