netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] tcp: avoid tx starvation by SYNACK packets

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:23:03 +0200
From:	Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@...csson.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	"subramanian.vijay@...il.com" <subramanian.vijay@...il.com>,
	"dave.taht@...il.com" <dave.taht@...il.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"ncardwell@...gle.com" <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
	"therbert@...gle.com" <therbert@...gle.com>,
	"brouer@...hat.com" <brouer@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] tcp: avoid tx starvation by SYNACK packets

On Tuesday 26 June 2012 19:02:36 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 07:34 +0200, Hans Schillstrom wrote:
> 
> > This patch didn't give much in gain actually.
> 
> With a 100Mbps link it does.
 
I was testing with a patched igb driver with TCP SYN irq:s on one core only,
there was some fault in the prev. setup (RPS was also involved) because now it gives a boost of ~15%

> With a 1Gbps link we are cpu bounded for sure.

True.

> 
> > The big cycle consumer during a syn attack is SHA sum right now, 
> > so from that perspective it's better to add aes crypto (by using AES-NI) 
> > to the syn cookies instead of SHA sum. Even if only newer x86_64 can use it.
> 
> My dev machine is able to process ~280.000 SYN (and synack) per second
> (tg3, mono queue), and sha_transform() takes ~10 % of the time according
> to perf.

My test machine is not that fast :-(
I have only 170.000 syn/synack per sec. and sha_transform() takes ~9.6%
have seen peeks of 16% (during 10 sec samples)

> 
> With David patch using jhash instead of SHA, I reach ~315.000 SYN per
> second.

I have similar results from ~170k to ~199k synack/sec.

BTW, 
cookie_hash() did not show up in the perf results, (< 0.08%)

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