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Date:	Thu, 4 Feb 2016 12:13:11 -0800
From:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@....com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Disabling XPS for 4.4.0-1+ixgbe+OpenStack VM over a VLAN means
 65% increase in netperf TCP_STREAM

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@....com> wrote:
> On 02/04/2016 11:38 AM, Tom Herbert wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@....com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The Intel folks suggested something about the process scheduler moving
>>> the
>>> sender around and ultimately causing some packet re-ordering.  That could
>>> I
>>> suppose explain the TCP_STREAM difference, but not the TCP_RR since that
>>> has
>>> just a single segment in flight at one time.
>>>
>> XPS has OOO avoidance for TCP, that should not be a problem.
>
>
> What/how much should I read into:
>
> With XPS    TCPOFOQueue: 78206
> Without XPS TCPOFOQueue: 967
>
> out of the netstat statistics on the receiving VM?
>
Okay, that makes sense. The OOO avoidance only applies to TCP sockets
in the stack, that doesn't cross into VM. Presumably, packets coming
from the VM don't have a socket so sk_tx_queue_get always returns -1
and so netdev_pick_tx will steer packet to the queue based on
currently running CPU without any memory.

>>> I can try to get perf/whatnot installed on the systems - suggestions as
>>> to
>>> what metrics to look at are welcome.
>>>
>> I'd start with verifying the XPS configuration is sane and then trying
>> to reproduce the issue outside of using VMs, if both of those are okay
>> then maybe look at some sort of bad interaction with OpenStack
>> configuration.
>
>
> Fair enough - what is the definition of "sane" for an XPS configuration?
>
> Here is what it looks like before I disabled it:
>
> $ for i in `find /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0
> -name xps_cpus`; do echo $i `cat $i`; done
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-0/xps_cpus
> 0000,00000001
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-1/xps_cpus
> 0000,00000002
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-2/xps_cpus
> 0000,00000004
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-3/xps_cpus
> 0000,00000008
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-4/xps_cpus
> 0000,00000010
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-5/xps_cpus
> 0000,00000020
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-6/xps_cpus
> 0000,00000040
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-7/xps_cpus
> 0000,00000080
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-8/xps_cpus
> 0000,00000100
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-9/xps_cpus
> 0000,00000200
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-10/xps_cpus
> 0000,00000400
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-11/xps_cpus
> 0000,00000800
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-12/xps_cpus
> 0000,00001000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-13/xps_cpus
> 0000,00002000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-14/xps_cpus
> 0000,00004000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-15/xps_cpus
> 0000,00008000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-16/xps_cpus
> 0000,00010000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-17/xps_cpus
> 0000,00020000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-18/xps_cpus
> 0000,00040000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-19/xps_cpus
> 0000,00080000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-20/xps_cpus
> 0000,00100000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-21/xps_cpus
> 0000,00200000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-22/xps_cpus
> 0000,00400000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-23/xps_cpus
> 0000,00800000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-24/xps_cpus
> 0000,01000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-25/xps_cpus
> 0000,02000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-26/xps_cpus
> 0000,04000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-27/xps_cpus
> 0000,08000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-28/xps_cpus
> 0000,10000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-29/xps_cpus
> 0000,20000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-30/xps_cpus
> 0000,40000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-31/xps_cpus
> 0000,80000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-32/xps_cpus
> 0001,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-33/xps_cpus
> 0002,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-34/xps_cpus
> 0004,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-35/xps_cpus
> 0008,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-36/xps_cpus
> 0010,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-37/xps_cpus
> 0020,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-38/xps_cpus
> 0040,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-39/xps_cpus
> 0080,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-40/xps_cpus
> 0100,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-41/xps_cpus
> 0200,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-42/xps_cpus
> 0400,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-43/xps_cpus
> 0800,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-44/xps_cpus
> 1000,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-45/xps_cpus
> 2000,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-46/xps_cpus
> 4000,00000000
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:04:00.0/net/eth0/queues/tx-47/xps_cpus
> 8000,00000000
>
>
> Which looks like it simply got spread across all the "CPUs" (HTs included)
> in the system.
>
> happy benchmarking,
>
> rick jones

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