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Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:44:25 +0200
From:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
To:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com>
Cc:	brouer@...hat.com,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
Subject: qdisc/UDP_STREAM: measuring effect of qdisc bulk dequeue


On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:35:36 +0200
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com> wrote:
 
> This testing relates to my qdisc bulk dequeue patches:
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/328829/focus=328951


I will quickly followup, with a more real-life use-case for qdisc layer
dequeue bulking (as Eric dislikes my artificial benchmarks ;-)).

Using UDP_STREAM on 1Gbit/s driver igb, I can show that the
_raw_spin_lock calls are reduced with approx 3%, when enabling
bulking of just 2 packets.

This test can only demonstrates a CPU usage reduction, as the
throughput is already at maximum link (bandwidth) capacity.


Notice netperf option "-m 1472" which makes sure we are not sending
UDP IP-fragments::

 netperf -H 192.168.111.2 -t UDP_STREAM -l 120 -- -m 1472


Results from perf diff::

 # Command: perf diff
 # Event 'cycles'
 # Baseline  Delta    Symbol
 # no-bulk   bulk(1)
 # ........  .......  .........................................
 #
     7.05%   -3.03%  [k] _raw_spin_lock
     6.34%   +0.23%  [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
     6.30%   +0.26%  [k] fib_table_lookup
     3.03%   +0.01%  [k] __slab_free
     3.00%   +0.08%  [k] intel_idle
     2.49%   +0.05%  [k] sock_alloc_send_pskb
     2.31%   +0.30%  netperf  [.] send_omni_inner
     2.12%   +0.12%  netperf  [.] send_data
     2.11%   +0.10%  [k] udp_sendmsg
     1.96%   +0.02%  [k] __ip_append_data
     1.48%   -0.01%  [k] __alloc_skb
     1.46%   +0.07%  [k] __mkroute_output
     1.34%   +0.05%  [k] __ip_select_ident
     1.29%   +0.03%  [k] check_leaf
     1.27%   +0.09%  [k] __skb_get_hash

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer


Settings::

 export N=0; sudo sh -c "echo $N > /proc/sys/net/core/qdisc_bulk_dequeue_limit"; \
 grep -H . /proc/sys/net/core/qdisc_bulk_dequeue_limit
 /proc/sys/net/core/qdisc_bulk_dequeue_limit:0

 export N=1; sudo sh -c "echo $N > /proc/sys/net/core/qdisc_bulk_dequeue_limit"; \
 grep -H . /proc/sys/net/core/qdisc_bulk_dequeue_limit
 /proc/sys/net/core/qdisc_bulk_dequeue_limit:1
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