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Message-ID: <45b6fe37-ba1a-91c2-1d4a-2d045793babd@nbd.name>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 09:14:11 +0200
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
To: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>,
Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Toshiaki Makita <toshiaki.makita1@...il.com>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>,
Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>,
David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@...n.io>,
Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@...ntric.com>
Subject: Re: NAT performance regression caused by vlan GRO support
On 2019-04-05 09:11, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 05.04.2019 07:48, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> On 05.04.2019 06:26, Toshiaki Makita wrote:
>>> My test results:
>>>
>>> Receiving packets from eth0.10, forwarding them to eth0.20 and applying
>>> MASQUERADE on eth0.20, using i40e 25G NIC on kernel 4.20.13.
>>> Disabled rxvlan by ethtool -K to exercise vlan_gro_receive().
>>> Measured TCP throughput by netperf.
>>>
>>> GRO on : 17 Gbps
>>> GRO off: 5 Gbps
>>>
>>> So I failed to reproduce your problem.
>>
>> :( Thanks for trying & checking that!
>>
>>
>>> Would you check the CPU usage by "mpstat -P ALL" or similar (like "sar
>>> -u ALL -P ALL") to check if the traffic is able to consume 100% CPU on
>>> your machine?
>>
>> 1) ethtool -K eth0 gro on + iperf running (577 Mb/s)
>> root@...nWrt:/# mpstat -P ALL 10 3
>> Linux 5.1.0-rc3+ (OpenWrt) 03/27/19 _armv7l_ (2 CPU)
>>
>> 16:33:40 CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
>> 16:33:50 all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 58.79 0.00 0.00 41.21
>> 16:33:50 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
>> 16:33:50 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 17.58 0.00 0.00 82.42
>>
>> 16:33:50 CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
>> 16:34:00 all 0.00 0.00 0.05 0.00 0.00 59.44 0.00 0.00 40.51
>> 16:34:00 0 0.00 0.00 0.10 0.00 0.00 99.90 0.00 0.00 0.00
>> 16:34:00 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 18.98 0.00 0.00 81.02
>>
>> 16:34:00 CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
>> 16:34:10 all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 59.59 0.00 0.00 40.41
>> 16:34:10 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
>> 16:34:10 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 19.18 0.00 0.00 80.82
>>
>> Average: CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
>> Average: all 0.00 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.00 59.27 0.00 0.00 40.71
>> Average: 0 0.00 0.00 0.03 0.00 0.00 99.97 0.00 0.00 0.00
>> Average: 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 18.58 0.00 0.00 81.42
>>
>>
>> 2) ethtool -K eth0 gro off + iperf running (941 Mb/s)
>> root@...nWrt:/# mpstat -P ALL 10 3
>> Linux 5.1.0-rc3+ (OpenWrt) 03/27/19 _armv7l_ (2 CPU)
>>
>> 16:34:39 CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
>> 16:34:49 all 0.00 0.00 0.05 0.00 0.00 86.91 0.00 0.00 13.04
>> 16:34:49 0 0.00 0.00 0.10 0.00 0.00 78.22 0.00 0.00 21.68
>> 16:34:49 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 95.60 0.00 0.00 4.40
>>
>> 16:34:49 CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
>> 16:34:59 all 0.00 0.00 0.10 0.00 0.00 87.06 0.00 0.00 12.84
>> 16:34:59 0 0.00 0.00 0.20 0.00 0.00 79.72 0.00 0.00 20.08
>> 16:34:59 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 94.41 0.00 0.00 5.59
>>
>> 16:34:59 CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
>> 16:35:09 all 0.00 0.00 0.05 0.00 0.00 85.71 0.00 0.00 14.24
>> 16:35:09 0 0.00 0.00 0.10 0.00 0.00 79.42 0.00 0.00 20.48
>> 16:35:09 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 92.01 0.00 0.00 7.99
>>
>> Average: CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
>> Average: all 0.00 0.00 0.07 0.00 0.00 86.56 0.00 0.00 13.37
>> Average: 0 0.00 0.00 0.13 0.00 0.00 79.12 0.00 0.00 20.75
>> Average: 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 94.01 0.00 0.00 5.99
>>
>>
>> 3) System idle (no iperf)
>> root@...nWrt:/# mpstat -P ALL 10 1
>> Linux 5.1.0-rc3+ (OpenWrt) 03/27/19 _armv7l_ (2 CPU)
>>
>> 16:35:31 CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
>> 16:35:41 all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00
>> 16:35:41 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00
>> 16:35:41 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00
>>
>> Average: CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
>> Average: all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00
>> Average: 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00
>> Average: 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00
>>
>>
>>> If CPU is 100%, perf may help us analyze your problem. If it's
>>> available, try running below while testing:
>>> # perf record -a -g -- sleep 5
>>>
>>> And then run this after testing:
>>> # perf report --no-child
>>
>> I can see my CPU 0 is fully loaded when using "gro on". I'll try perf now.
>
> I guess its GRO + csum_partial() to be blamed for this performance drop.
>
> Maybe csum_partial() is very fast on your powerful machine and few extra calls
> don't make a difference? I can imagine it affecting much slower home router with
> ARM cores.
Most high performance Ethernet devices implement hardware checksum
offload, which completely gets rid of this overhead.
Unfortunately, the BCM53xx/47xx Ethernet MAC doesn't have this, which is
why you're getting such crappy performance.
- Felix
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