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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:31:58 -0800
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
hkchu@...gle.com, mwdalton@...gle.com
Subject: Re: gso: Handle new frag_list of frags GRO packets
On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 10:22 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 06:17:14PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 09:29 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > > I presume this is on a NIC that produces completely linear packets?
> >
> > Sorry : with mlx4 driver, GRO builds nice skbs with one page frag per
> > MSS, so each skb found on frag_list is fully loaded with 16 MSS
>
> OK, so what are the numbers when GRO is off completely?
Pretty bad, as we drop many packets.
My (single) tcp flow is no longer full speed. (link speed is 10Gb)
lpaa6:~# mpstat -P 3 1 10
06:28:11 PM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle intr/s
06:28:12 PM 3 2.04 0.00 7.14 0.00 5.10 73.47 0.00 0.00 12.24 28594.90
06:28:13 PM 3 3.00 0.00 3.00 0.00 5.00 74.00 0.00 0.00 15.00 28492.00
06:28:14 PM 3 0.00 0.00 0.99 0.00 5.94 93.07 0.00 0.00 0.00 35948.51
06:28:15 PM 3 5.00 0.00 4.00 0.00 5.00 74.00 0.00 0.00 12.00 28699.00
06:28:16 PM 3 3.06 0.00 5.10 0.00 5.10 75.51 0.00 0.00 11.22 30037.76
06:28:17 PM 3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 6.00 92.00 0.00 0.00 2.00 36338.00
06:28:18 PM 3 1.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 5.00 73.00 0.00 0.00 19.00 28230.00
06:28:19 PM 3 0.00 0.00 2.02 0.00 6.06 86.87 0.00 0.00 5.05 33987.88
06:28:20 PM 3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 6.00 81.00 0.00 0.00 13.00 32086.00
06:28:21 PM 3 1.98 0.00 1.98 0.00 4.95 73.27 0.00 0.00 17.82 28383.17
Average: 3 1.60 0.00 2.61 0.00 5.42 79.64 0.00 0.00 10.73 31086.06
perf profile (GRO off)
6.88% [kernel] [k] fib_table_lookup
5.97% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock
5.40% [kernel] [k] ipt_do_table
4.79% [mlx4_en] [k] mlx4_en_process_rx_cq
4.29% [kernel] [k] htb_dequeue
3.65% [mlx4_en] [k] mlx4_en_xmit
2.48% [kernel] [k] kmem_cache_free
2.27% [kernel] [k] __netif_receive_skb_core
2.23% [kernel] [k] local_bh_enable
2.22% [mlx4_en] [k] mlx4_en_tx_irq
2.17% [kernel] [k] ip_route_input_noref
2.16% [kernel] [k] kmem_cache_alloc
2.03% [kernel] [k] check_leaf.isra.7
1.89% [kernel] [k] inet_getpeer
1.62% [kernel] [k] nf_iterate
1.44% [kernel] [k] fib_validate_source
1.42% [kernel] [k] dev_kfree_skb_irq
1.39% [kernel] [k] build_skb
1.38% [kernel] [k] ip_rcv
1.26% [kernel] [k] htb_lookup_leaf
1.23% [kernel] [k] dev_queue_xmit
1.17% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_bh
1.14% [mlx4_en] [k] mlx4_en_complete_rx_desc
1.08% [unknown] [.] 0x00000000019cdd6d
1.03% [kernel] [k] htb_deactivate_prios
0.94% [kernel] [k] htb_activate_prios
0.91% [kernel] [k] htb_enqueue
0.89% [kernel] [k] ip_forward
0.87% [mlx4_en] [k] mlx4_en_free_tx_desc.isra.25
0.84% [mlx4_en] [k] mlx4_en_alloc_frags
0.83% [kernel] [k] __netdev_alloc_frag
0.83% [kernel] [k] read_tsc
0.83% [kernel] [k] netif_receive_skb
0.81% [kernel] [k] nf_hook_slow
0.80% [kernel] [k] dst_alloc
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