netdev - Re: [RFC bpf-next 0/7] busy poll support for AF

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Message-ID: <20190517112003.02b130b2@cakuba.netronome.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 May 2019 11:20:03 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...il.com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>,
        Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...el.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Lemon <bsd@...com>,
        Maciej Fijalkowski <maciejromanfijalkowski@...il.com>,
        "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC bpf-next 0/7] busy poll support for AF_XDP sockets

On Thu, 16 May 2019 14:37:51 +0200, Magnus Karlsson wrote:
>                                       Applications
> method  cores  irqs        txpush        rxdrop      l2fwd
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> r-t-c     2     y           35.9          11.2        8.6
> poll      2     y           34.2           9.4        8.3
> r-t-c     1     y           18.1           N/A        6.2
> poll      1     y           14.6           8.4        5.9
> busypoll  2     y           31.9          10.5        7.9
> busypoll  1     y           21.5           8.7        6.2
> busypoll  1     n           22.0          10.3        7.3

Thanks for the numbers!  One question that keeps coming to my mind 
is how do the cases compare on zero drop performance?

When I was experimenting with AF_XDP it seemed to be slightly more
prone to dropping packets than expected.  I wonder if you're seeing
a similar thing (well drops or back pressure to the traffic generator)?
Perhaps the single core busy poll would make a difference there?