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Date:	Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:07:15 +0000
From:	Benoit Lourdelet <blourdel@...iper.net>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] iproute: Faster ip link add, set and delete

Sorry Eric,

This is not an lxc-start perf report.This is an "ip" report".

Will run an "lxc-start" perf  ASAP.

Regards

Benoit

On 30/03/2013 15:44, "Eric Dumazet" <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 2013-03-30 at 10:09 +0000, Benoit Lourdelet wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Here are my tests  of the last patches on 3 different platforms all
>> running 3.8.5 :
>> 
>> Time are in seconds :
>> 
>> 8x 3.7Ghz virtual cores
>> 
>> # veth 	create 	delete
>> 1000 	14 	18
>> 2000 	39 	56
>> 5000 	256 	161
>> 10000 	1200 	399
>> 
>> 
>> 8x 3.2Ghz virtual cores
>> 
>> # veth 	create 	delete
>> 
>> 1000 	19 	40
>> 2000 	118 	66
>> 5000 	305 	251
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 32x 2Ghz virtual cores , 2 sockets
>> # veth 	create 	delete
>> 1000 	35 	86
>> 
>> 2000 	120 	90
>> 
>> 5000 	724 	245
>> 
>> 
>> Compared to initial iproute2 performance on this 32 virtual core
>>system :
>> 5000 1143  1185
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> "perf record" for creation of 5000 veth on the 32 core system :
>> 
>> # captured on: Fri Mar 29 14:03:35 2013
>> # hostname : ieng-serv06
>> # os release : 3.8.5
>> # perf version : 3.8.5
>> # arch : x86_64
>> # nrcpus online : 32
>> # nrcpus avail : 32
>> # cpudesc : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz
>> # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,45,7
>> # total memory : 264124548 kB
>> # cmdline : /usr/src/linux-3.8.5/tools/perf/perf record -a
>>./test3.script
>> # event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2
>>=
>> 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, excl_host = 0, excl_guest = 1,
>> precise_ip = 0, id = { 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42,
>> # HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
>> # HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
>> # pmu mappings: cpu = 4, software = 1, uncore_pcu = 15, tracepoint = 2,
>> uncore_imc_0 = 17, uncore_imc_1 = 18, uncore_imc_2 = 19, uncore_imc_3 =
>> 20, uncore_qpi_0 = 21, uncore_qpi_1 = 22, unco
>> # ========
>> #
>> # Samples: 9M of event 'cycles'
>> # Event count (approx.): 2894480238483
>> #
>> # Overhead          Command                  Shared Object
>>                           Symbol
>> # ........  ...............  .............................
>> ...............................................
>> #
>>     15.17%             sudo  [kernel.kallsyms]              [k]
>> snmp_fold_field 
>>      5.94%             sudo  libc-2.15.so                   [.]
>> 0x00000000000802cd
>>      5.64%             sudo  [kernel.kallsyms]              [k]
>> find_next_bit   
>>      3.21%             init  libnih.so.1.0.0                [.]
>> nih_list_add_after
>>      2.12%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]              [k]
>>intel_idle
>>                 
>>      1.94%             init  [kernel.kallsyms]              [k]
>>page_fault
>>                 
>>      1.93%              sed  libc-2.15.so                   [.]
>> 0x00000000000a1368
>>      1.93%             sudo  [kernel.kallsyms]              [k]
>> rtnl_fill_ifinfo
>>      1.92%             sudo  [veth]                         [k]
>> veth_get_stats64
>>      1.78%             sudo  [kernel.kallsyms]              [k] memcpy
>>                 
>>      1.53%          ifquery  libc-2.15.so                   [.]
>> 0x000000000007f52b
>>      1.24%             init  libc-2.15.so                   [.]
>> 0x000000000008918f
>>      1.05%             sudo  [kernel.kallsyms]              [k]
>> inet6_fill_ifla6_attrs
>>      0.98%             init  [kernel.kallsyms]              [k]
>> copy_pte_range  
>>      0.88%       irqbalance  libc-2.15.so                   [.]
>> 0x00000000000802cd
>>      0.85%             sudo  [kernel.kallsyms]              [k] memset
>>                 
>>      0.72%              sed  ld-2.15.so                     [.]
>> 0x000000000000a226
>>      0.68%          ifquery  ld-2.15.so                     [.]
>> 0x00000000000165a0
>>      0.64%             init  libnih.so.1.0.0                [.]
>> nih_tree_next_post_full
>>      0.61%  bridge-network-  libc-2.15.so                   [.]
>> 0x0000000000131e2a
>>      0.59%             init  [kernel.kallsyms]              [k]
>>do_wp_page
>>                 
>>      0.59%          ifquery  [kernel.kallsyms]              [k]
>>page_fault
>>                 
>>      0.54%              sed  [kernel.kallsyms]              [k]
>>page_fault
>>                 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Benoit
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
>This means lxc-start does the same thing than ip :
>
>It fetches the whole device list.
>
>You could strace it to have a confirmation.
>
>
>
>
>


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