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Date:   Sun, 17 Feb 2019 20:13:23 +0100
From:   Simon Huelck <simonmail@....de>
To:     Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>,
        Jose Abreu <jose.abreu@...opsys.com>
Cc:     Emiliano Ingrassia <ingrassia@...genesys.com>,
        Gpeppe.cavallaro@...com, alexandre.torgue@...com,
        linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stmmac / meson8b-dwmac

Hi Martin,


i repeated your commands , nothing changed the problematic result ....


regards,
Simon

Am 17.02.2019 um 15:48 schrieb Martin Blumenstingl:
> Hello Jose,
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 2:45 PM Jose Abreu <jose.abreu@...opsys.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 2/9/2019 1:09 AM, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
>>> (it's interesting that the sending direction has 445 retries)
>> I saw this before and I think it was related with COE. Can you
>> please disable all offloading and try again?
> OK, details are:
>
> (before doing anything)
> # ethtool -k eth0
> Features for eth0:
> rx-checksumming: on
> tx-checksumming: on
>        tx-checksum-ipv4: on
>        tx-checksum-ip-generic: off [fixed]
>        tx-checksum-ipv6: on
>        tx-checksum-fcoe-crc: off [fixed]
>        tx-checksum-sctp: off [fixed]
> scatter-gather: on
>        tx-scatter-gather: on
>        tx-scatter-gather-fraglist: off [fixed]
> tcp-segmentation-offload: off
>        tx-tcp-segmentation: off [fixed]
>        tx-tcp-ecn-segmentation: off [fixed]
>        tx-tcp-mangleid-segmentation: off [fixed]
>        tx-tcp6-segmentation: off [fixed]
> udp-fragmentation-offload: off
> generic-segmentation-offload: on
> generic-receive-offload: on
> large-receive-offload: off [fixed]
> rx-vlan-offload: off [fixed]
> tx-vlan-offload: off [fixed]
> ntuple-filters: off [fixed]
> receive-hashing: off [fixed]
> highdma: on [fixed]
> rx-vlan-filter: off [fixed]
> vlan-challenged: off [fixed]
> tx-lockless: off [fixed]
> netns-local: off [fixed]
> tx-gso-robust: off [fixed]
> tx-fcoe-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-gre-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-gre-csum-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-ipxip4-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-ipxip6-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-udp_tnl-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-udp_tnl-csum-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-gso-partial: off [fixed]
> tx-sctp-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-esp-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-udp-segmentation: off [fixed]
> fcoe-mtu: off [fixed]
> tx-nocache-copy: off
> loopback: off [fixed]
> rx-fcs: off [fixed]
> rx-all: off [fixed]
> tx-vlan-stag-hw-insert: off [fixed]
> rx-vlan-stag-hw-parse: off [fixed]
> rx-vlan-stag-filter: off [fixed]
> l2-fwd-offload: off [fixed]
> hw-tc-offload: off [fixed]
> esp-hw-offload: off [fixed]
> esp-tx-csum-hw-offload: off [fixed]
> rx-udp_tunnel-port-offload: off [fixed]
> tls-hw-tx-offload: off [fixed]
> tls-hw-rx-offload: off [fixed]
> rx-gro-hw: off [fixed]
> tls-hw-record: off [fixed]
>
> this causes retries when running iperf3 in transmit mode.
>
> with offloading disabled:
>
> # ethtool -K eth0 rx off tx off
> # ethtool -k eth0
> Features for eth0:
> rx-checksumming: off
> tx-checksumming: off
>        tx-checksum-ipv4: off
>        tx-checksum-ip-generic: off [fixed]
>        tx-checksum-ipv6: off
>        tx-checksum-fcoe-crc: off [fixed]
>        tx-checksum-sctp: off [fixed]
> scatter-gather: on
>        tx-scatter-gather: on
>        tx-scatter-gather-fraglist: off [fixed]
> tcp-segmentation-offload: off
>        tx-tcp-segmentation: off [fixed]
>        tx-tcp-ecn-segmentation: off [fixed]
>        tx-tcp-mangleid-segmentation: off [fixed]
>        tx-tcp6-segmentation: off [fixed]
> udp-fragmentation-offload: off
> generic-segmentation-offload: on
> generic-receive-offload: on
> large-receive-offload: off [fixed]
> rx-vlan-offload: off [fixed]
> tx-vlan-offload: off [fixed]
> ntuple-filters: off [fixed]
> receive-hashing: off [fixed]
> highdma: on [fixed]
> rx-vlan-filter: off [fixed]
> vlan-challenged: off [fixed]
> tx-lockless: off [fixed]
> netns-local: off [fixed]
> tx-gso-robust: off [fixed]
> tx-fcoe-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-gre-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-gre-csum-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-ipxip4-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-ipxip6-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-udp_tnl-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-udp_tnl-csum-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-gso-partial: off [fixed]
> tx-sctp-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-esp-segmentation: off [fixed]
> tx-udp-segmentation: off [fixed]
> fcoe-mtu: off [fixed]
> tx-nocache-copy: off
> loopback: off [fixed]
> rx-fcs: off [fixed]
> rx-all: off [fixed]
> tx-vlan-stag-hw-insert: off [fixed]
> rx-vlan-stag-hw-parse: off [fixed]
> rx-vlan-stag-filter: off [fixed]
> l2-fwd-offload: off [fixed]
> hw-tc-offload: off [fixed]
> esp-hw-offload: off [fixed]
> esp-tx-csum-hw-offload: off [fixed]
> rx-udp_tunnel-port-offload: off [fixed]
> tls-hw-tx-offload: off [fixed]
> tls-hw-rx-offload: off [fixed]
> rx-gro-hw: off [fixed]
> tls-hw-record: off [fixed]
> # iperf3 -c 192.168.1.100
> Connecting to host 192.168.1.100, port 5201
> [  5] local 192.168.1.131 port 58412 connected to 192.168.1.100 port 5201
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
> [  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   112 MBytes   937 Mbits/sec   32   59.4 KBytes
> [  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   112 MBytes   937 Mbits/sec   25    290 KBytes
> [  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   109 MBytes   915 Mbits/sec  150    279 KBytes
> [  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    334 KBytes
> [  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    342 KBytes
> [  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   111 MBytes   934 Mbits/sec   98    320 KBytes
> [  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   111 MBytes   929 Mbits/sec  123   76.4 KBytes
> [  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   109 MBytes   917 Mbits/sec  119    277 KBytes
> [  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    314 KBytes
> [  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec    0    318 KBytes
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
> [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   933 Mbits/sec  547             sender
> [  5]   0.00-10.04  sec  1.09 GBytes   929 Mbits/sec                  receiver
>
> iperf Done.
>
> so for me disabling offloading didn't change anything.
>
> Jose, is my command for disabling offloading correct?
> Simon, does disabling offloading improve anything in your iperf2 or
> real-world scenario on a kernel where you previously had performance
> issues?
>
>
> Regards
> Martin