netdev - RE: Low performance Intel 10GE NIC (3.2.10) on 2.6.38 Kernel

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Message-ID: <D12839161ADD3A4B8DA63D1A134D084026E4909714@ESGSCCMS0001.eapac.ericsson.se>
Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:14:44 +0800
From:	Wei Gu <wei.gu@...csson.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
CC:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: RE: Low performance Intel 10GE NIC (3.2.10) on 2.6.38 Kernel

 I tried the ixgbe-3.3.8 (insmod ixgbe.ko RSS=8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8 FdirMode=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 Node=0,0,1,1,2,2,3,3)  from e1000.sf.net both on 2.6.35.1 and 2.6.35.2, same observation as 3.2.10 ixgbe driver, On 2.6.35.2 it have high rx errors:
Ethtool -S eth10 |grep error
     rx_errors: 0
     tx_errors: 0
     rx_over_errors: 0
     rx_crc_errors: 0
     rx_frame_errors: 0
     rx_fifo_errors: 0
     rx_missed_errors: 2263088
     tx_aborted_errors: 0
     tx_carrier_errors: 0
     tx_fifo_errors: 0
     tx_heartbeat_errors: 0
     rx_long_length_errors: 0
     rx_short_length_errors: 0
     rx_csum_offload_errors: 0
     fcoe_last_errors: 0


-----Original Message-----
From: Wei Gu
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 11:01 PM
To: 'Alexander Duyck'
Cc: Eric Dumazet; netdev; Kirsher, Jeffrey T
Subject: RE: Low performance Intel 10GE NIC (3.2.10) on 2.6.38 Kernel

I will try the lastest driver 3.3.8 on  e1000.sf.net:)

But I also tested the ixgbe-3.2.10 on the kernel 2.6.35.1 and 2.6.35.2,The problem start happens from 2.6.35.2, no problem at all with 2.6.35.1 kernel.
I don't know if some patch between 2.6.35.1 and 2.35.2 had some impact to this Intel 10GE ixgbe driver.

Thanks
WeiGu

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Duyck [mailto:alexander.h.duyck@...el.com]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 10:50 PM
To: Wei Gu
Cc: Eric Dumazet; netdev; Kirsher, Jeffrey T
Subject: Re: Low performance Intel 10GE NIC (3.2.10) on 2.6.38 Kernel

On 4/10/2011 12:02 AM, Wei Gu wrote:
> Hi , I haven't enable the packet header spilting, so I think no
> netdev_alloc_page() will be called in my case.
>
> BTW, I also did the same test from 2.6.33 to 2.6.35 kernel, looks the
> problem happens from 2.6.35, cause 2.6.32/33/34 do not see this
> problem at all, they all works pretty good.
>
> I modify the .configs base on the FC13/14, and also manully set the
> DMAR DEFAULT to off, chose the SLAB as the memory allocator (same as
> RHEL6 2.6.32). For more detail about the config, please check the
> attached file
>
> Thanks WeiGu

WeiGu,

In order to try and isolate this issue I was wondering if you could try our out-of-tree ixgbe driver from e1000.sf.net?  The idea would be to test it on 2.6.34 and 2.6.35 in order to determine if the issue is due to a change in the kernel or a change in the driver.  If the performance is the same on these two kernels with our out-of-tree driver then we know the issue is a change somewhere in the ixgbe driver in the kernel.

Thanks,

Alex

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