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Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 02:13:29 +0100
From:   Paweł Staszewski <pstaszewski@...are.pl>
To:     Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yoel Caspersen <yoel@...knet.dk>
Subject: Re: Kernel 4.19 network performance - forwarding/routing normal users
 traffic



W dniu 08.11.2018 o 01:59, Paweł Staszewski pisze:
>
>
> W dniu 05.11.2018 o 21:17, Jesper Dangaard Brouer pisze:
>> On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 01:24:03 +0100 Paweł Staszewski 
>> <pstaszewski@...are.pl> wrote:
>>
>>> And today again after allpy patch for page allocator - reached again
>>> 64/64 Gbit/s
>>>
>>> with only 50-60% cpu load
>> Great.
>>
>>> today no slowpath hit for netwoking :)
>>>
>>> But again dropped pckt at 64GbitRX and 64TX ....
>>> And as it should not be pcie express limit  -i think something more is
>> Well, this does sounds like a PCIe bandwidth limit to me.
>>
>> See the PCIe BW here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express
>>
>> You likely have PCIe v3, where 1-lane have 984.6 MBytes/s or 7.87 Gbit/s
>> Thus,  x16-lanes have 15.75 GBytes or 126 Gbit/s.  It does say "in each
>> direction", but you are also forwarding this RX->TX on both (dual) ports
>> NIC that is sharing the same PCIe slot.
> Network controller changed from 2-port 100G connectx4 to 2 separate 
> cards 100G connectx5
>
>
>    PerfTop:   92239 irqs/sec  kernel:99.4%  exact:  0.0% [4000Hz 
> cycles],  (all, 56 CPUs)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>
>      6.65%  [kernel]       [k] irq_entries_start
>      5.57%  [kernel]       [k] tasklet_action_common.isra.21
>      4.60%  [kernel]       [k] mlx5_eq_int
>      4.04%  [kernel]       [k] mlx5e_skb_from_cqe_mpwrq_linear
>      3.66%  [kernel]       [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
>      3.58%  [kernel]       [k] mlx5e_sq_xmit
>      2.66%  [kernel]       [k] fib_table_lookup
>      2.52%  [kernel]       [k] _raw_spin_lock
>      2.51%  [kernel]       [k] build_skb
>      2.50%  [kernel]       [k] _raw_spin_lock_irq
>      2.04%  [kernel]       [k] try_to_wake_up
>      1.83%  [kernel]       [k] queued_spin_lock_slowpath
>      1.81%  [kernel]       [k] mlx5e_poll_tx_cq
>      1.65%  [kernel]       [k] do_idle
>      1.50%  [kernel]       [k] mlx5e_poll_rx_cq
>      1.34%  [kernel]       [k] __sched_text_start
>      1.32%  [kernel]       [k] cmd_exec
>      1.30%  [kernel]       [k] cmd_work_handler
>      1.16%  [kernel]       [k] vlan_do_receive
>      1.15%  [kernel]       [k] memcpy_erms
>      1.15%  [kernel]       [k] __dev_queue_xmit
>      1.07%  [kernel]       [k] mlx5_cmd_comp_handler
>      1.06%  [kernel]       [k] sched_ttwu_pending
>      1.00%  [kernel]       [k] ipt_do_table
>      0.98%  [kernel]       [k] ip_finish_output2
>      0.92%  [kernel]       [k] pfifo_fast_dequeue
>      0.88%  [kernel]       [k] mlx5e_handle_rx_cqe_mpwrq
>      0.78%  [kernel]       [k] dev_gro_receive
>      0.78%  [kernel]       [k] mlx5e_napi_poll
>      0.76%  [kernel]       [k] mlx5e_post_rx_mpwqes
>      0.70%  [kernel]       [k] process_one_work
>      0.67%  [kernel]       [k] __netif_receive_skb_core
>      0.65%  [kernel]       [k] __build_skb
>      0.63%  [kernel]       [k] llist_add_batch
>      0.62%  [kernel]       [k] tcp_gro_receive
>      0.60%  [kernel]       [k] inet_gro_receive
>      0.59%  [kernel]       [k] ip_route_input_rcu
>      0.59%  [kernel]       [k] rcu_irq_exit
>      0.56%  [kernel]       [k] napi_complete_done
>      0.52%  [kernel]       [k] kmem_cache_alloc
>      0.48%  [kernel]       [k] __softirqentry_text_start
>      0.48%  [kernel]       [k] mlx5e_xmit
>      0.47%  [kernel]       [k] __queue_work
>      0.46%  [kernel]       [k] memset_erms
>      0.46%  [kernel]       [k] dev_hard_start_xmit
>      0.45%  [kernel]       [k] insert_work
>      0.45%  [kernel]       [k] enqueue_task_fair
>      0.44%  [kernel]       [k] __wake_up_common
>      0.43%  [kernel]       [k] finish_task_switch
>      0.43%  [kernel]       [k] kmem_cache_free_bulk
>      0.42%  [kernel]       [k] ip_forward
>      0.42%  [kernel]       [k] worker_thread
>      0.41%  [kernel]       [k] schedule
>      0.41%  [kernel]       [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
>      0.40%  [kernel]       [k] netif_skb_features
>      0.40%  [kernel]       [k] queue_work_on
>      0.40%  [kernel]       [k] pfifo_fast_enqueue
>      0.39%  [kernel]       [k] vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit
>      0.39%  [kernel]       [k] page_frag_free
>      0.36%  [kernel]       [k] swiotlb_map_page
>      0.36%  [kernel]       [k] update_cfs_rq_h_load
>      0.35%  [kernel]       [k] validate_xmit_skb.isra.142
>      0.35%  [kernel]       [k] dev_ifconf
>      0.35%  [kernel]       [k] check_preempt_curr
>      0.34%  [kernel]       [k] _raw_spin_trylock
>      0.34%  [kernel]       [k] rcu_idle_exit
>      0.33%  [kernel]       [k] ip_rcv_core.isra.20.constprop.25
>      0.33%  [kernel]       [k] __qdisc_run
>      0.33%  [kernel]       [k] skb_release_data
>      0.32%  [kernel]       [k] native_sched_clock
>      0.30%  [kernel]       [k] add_interrupt_randomness
>      0.29%  [kernel]       [k] interrupt_entry
>      0.28%  [kernel]       [k] skb_gro_receive
>      0.26%  [kernel]       [k] read_tsc
>      0.26%  [kernel]       [k] __get_xps_queue_idx
>      0.26%  [kernel]       [k] inet_gifconf
>      0.26%  [kernel]       [k] skb_segment
>      0.25%  [kernel]       [k] __tasklet_schedule_common
>      0.25%  [kernel]       [k] smpboot_thread_fn
>      0.23%  [kernel]       [k] __update_load_avg_se
>      0.22%  [kernel]       [k] tcp4_gro_receive
>
>
> Not much traffic now:
>   bwm-ng v0.6.1 (probing every 0.500s), press 'h' for help
>   input: /proc/net/dev type: rate
>   |         iface                   Rx Tx                Total
> ============================================================================== 
>
>          enp175s0:           6.95 Gb/s            4.20 Gb/s           
> 11.15 Gb/s
>          enp216s0:           4.23 Gb/s            6.98 Gb/s           
> 11.21 Gb/s
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>
>             total:          11.18 Gb/s           11.18 Gb/s           
> 22.37 Gb/s
>
>   bwm-ng v0.6.1 (probing every 1.000s), press 'h' for help
>   input: /proc/net/dev type: rate
>   |         iface                   Rx Tx                Total
> ============================================================================== 
>
>          enp175s0:       700264.50 P/s        923890.25 P/s 1624154.75 
> P/s
>          enp216s0:       932598.81 P/s        708771.50 P/s 1641370.25 
> P/s
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>
>             total:      1632863.38 P/s       1632661.75 P/s 3265525.00 
> P/s
>
>
>
>
Also is that normal that some kworker procs takes 10%+ of cpu ?
below top

  2913 root      20   0       0      0      0 I  10.3  0.0   6:58.29 
kworker/u112:1-
     7 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   8.6  0.0   6:17.18 
kworker/u112:0-
10289 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   6.6  0.0   6:33.90 
kworker/u112:4-
  2939 root      20   0       0      0      0 R   3.6  0.0   7:37.68 
kworker/u112:2-
  4557 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:08.82 
kworker/45:4-ev
  6775 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:26.30 
kworker/50:4-ev
  6833 root      20   0       0      0      0 D   1.3  0.0   0:04.96 
kworker/15:0+ev
  6840 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:09.32 
kworker/55:2-ev
  6874 root      20   0       0      0      0 D   1.3  0.0   0:08.51 
kworker/53:0+ev
  7710 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:07.78 
kworker/14:1-ev
12075 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   1:19.22 
kworker/23:3-ev
31209 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:07.02 
kworker/20:1-ev
32351 root      20   0       0      0      0 R   1.3  0.0   0:06.99 
kworker/51:2+ev
39869 root      20   0       0      0      0 D   1.3  0.0   0:06.15 
kworker/42:0+ev
39959 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:16.23 
kworker/51:1-ev
42858 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:47.72 
kworker/27:2-ev
43281 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:14.99 
kworker/14:4-ev
43282 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:13.38 
kworker/16:1-ev
43389 root      20   0       0      0      0 D   1.3  0.0   0:08.92 
kworker/54:2+ev
45214 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:05.82 
kworker/55:0-ev
46894 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:04.11 
kworker/46:1-ev
47027 root      20   0       0      0      0 D   1.3  0.0   0:03.79 
kworker/47:1+ev
47129 root      20   0       0      0      0 D   1.3  0.0   0:03.15 
kworker/52:0+ev
47133 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:03.19 
kworker/49:1-ev
47179 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:02.83 
kworker/17:3-ev
48062 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:02.54 
kworker/44:1-ev
48158 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:02.17 
kworker/16:2-ev
48168 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:02.13 
kworker/27:3-ev
48247 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:01.83 
kworker/22:0-ev
48337 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:01.57 
kworker/15:1-ev
48345 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:01.49 
kworker/24:3-ev
49302 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:00.71 
kworker/54:1-ev
49366 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:00.38 
kworker/20:3-ev
49400 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:00.31 
kworker/26:2-ev
49430 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:00.21 
kworker/42:2-ev
49463 root      20   0       0      0      0 D   1.3  0.0   0:00.08 
kworker/50:2+ev
51698 root      20   0       0      0      0 D   1.3  0.0   0:14.85 
kworker/46:2+ev
54238 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.3  0.0   0:23.73 
kworker/52:1-ev
  2507 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:09.60 
kworker/44:2-ev
  4525 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:08.07 
kworker/26:1-ev
  4556 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:05.15 
kworker/48:0-ev
  4604 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:10.90 
kworker/19:0-ev
  5789 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:08.24 
kworker/18:0-ev
  6868 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:09.68 
kworker/47:0-ev
  6900 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:28.83 
kworker/18:1-ev
  7764 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:03.00 
kworker/49:2-ev
12045 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   1:16.98 
kworker/24:2-ev
32218 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:04.13 
kworker/45:2-ev
34082 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:06.29 
kworker/17:1-ev
39791 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:19.51 
kworker/21:4-ev
39973 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:17.12 
kworker/53:2-ev
43223 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:07.88 
kworker/25:0-ev
43295 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:10.89 
kworker/22:4-ev
46055 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:04.00 
kworker/21:2-ev
46077 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:04.62 
kworker/19:1-ev
47204 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:03.03 
kworker/25:2-ev
47989 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:02.65 
kworker/43:1-ev
49127 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:01.10 
kworker/48:2-ev
49317 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   1.0  0.0   0:00.56 
kworker/23:1-ev
54191 root      20   0       0      0      0 R   1.0  0.0   0:30.27 
kworker/43:2+ev
    81 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.7  0.0   0:50.27 
ksoftirqd/14
    87 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.7  0.0   1:02.92 
ksoftirqd/15
   102 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.7  0.0   0:29.78 
ksoftirqd/18
   117 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.7  0.0   0:30.73 
ksoftirqd/21
   127 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.7  0.0   0:24.45 
ksoftirqd/23
   137 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.7  0.0   0:24.94 
ksoftirqd/25
   142 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.7  0.0   0:21.74 
ksoftirqd/26
   222 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.7  0.0   0:27.83 
ksoftirqd/42
   227 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.7  0.0   0:25.35 
ksoftirqd/43
   242 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.7  0.0   0:21.40 
ksoftirqd/46
   267 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.7  0.0   0:08.62 
ksoftirqd/51
  5174 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   0.7  0.0   5:57.10 
kworker/u112:3-

>
>
>>
>>
>>> going on there - and hard to catch - cause perf top doestn chenged
>>> besides there is no queued slowpath hit now
>>>
>>> I ordered now also intel cards to compare - but 3 weeks eta
>>> Faster - cause 3 days - i will have mellanox connectx 5 - so can
>>> separate traffic to two different x16 pcie busses
>> I do think you need to separate traffic to two different x16 PCIe
>> slots.  I have found that the ConnectX-5 is significantly faster
>> packet-per-sec performance than ConnectX-4, but that is not your
>> use-case (max BW). I've not tested these NICs for maximum
>> _bidirectional_ bandwidth limits, I've only made sure I can do 100G
>> unidirectional, which can hit some funny motherboard memory limits
>> (remember to equip motherboard with 4 RAM blocks for full memory BW).
>>
> Yes memory channels are separated and there are 4 modules per cpu :)
>
>

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