From: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Anton Titov <a.titov@host.bg>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Bad network performance over 2Gbps
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:40:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480512BD.3060407@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080415201441.GE8474@1wt.eu>
Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:06:44PM +0300, Anton Titov wrote:
>> I use Linux for serving a huge amount of static web on few servers. When
>> network traffic goes above 2Gbit/sec ksoftirqd/5 (not every time 5, but
>> every time just one) starts using exactly 100% CPU time and packet
>> packet loss starts preventing traffic from going up. When the network
>> traffic is lower than 1.9Gbit ksoftirqds use 0% CPU according to top.
>>
>> Uplink is 6 gigabit Intel cards bonded together using 802.3ad algorithm
>> with xmit_hash_policy set to layer3+4. On the other side is Cisco 2960
>> switch. Machine is with two quad core Intel Xeons @2.33GHz.
>>
>> Here goes a screen snapshot of "top" command. The described behavior
>> have nothing to do with 13% io-wait. It happens even if it is 0%
>> io-wait.
>> http://www.titov.net/misc/top-snap.png
>>
>> kernel configuration:
>> http://www.titov.net/misc/config.gz
>>
>> /proc/interrupts, lspci, dmesg (nothing intresting there), ifconfig,
>> uname -a:
>> http://www.titov.net/misc/misc.txt.gz
>>
>> Is it a Linux bug or some hardware limitation?
>
> possibly some missing parameters when loading your e1000 drivers.
> e1000 NICs support interrupt rate limitation, which proves very
> efficient in cases such as yours. I'm used to limit them to about
> 5k ints/s. Do a "modinfo e1000" to get the parameter name, I don't
> have it quite right in mind.
>
> Also, I've CCed linux-net.
# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6
CPU7
0: 342 261 258 278 271 253 264
283 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
6: 0 1 0 1 0 0 1
0 IO-APIC-edge floppy
9: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 1 1 0 0 0 1 1
0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
17: 180 190 178 183 182 186 186
188 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb4
18: 843504 842514 843653 842033 842416 842742 841903
842960 IO-APIC-fasteoi 3w-9xxx, uhci_hcd:usb3
19: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2
498: 534642903 534635899 534726883 534732377 534701710 534708588 534730550
534742730 PCI-MSI-edge eth5
499: 531832274 531846609 531917849 531942676 531855140 531850692 531885565
531863468 PCI-MSI-edge eth4
500: 487251627 487279206 487248030 487220044 487239637 487231454 487281672
487227202 PCI-MSI-edge eth3
501: 486083953 486062203 486109925 486075793 486036977 486035152 486097551
486117164 PCI-MSI-edge eth2
502: 528889380 528863624 528760188 528798619 528891886 528890760 528807939
528822746 PCI-MSI-edge eth1
503: 529043135 529056706 528980250 528975209 529018995 529027386 528941583
528970472 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
NMI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 62893699 62809502 62744208 62746035 62708815 62709055 62739182
62620363 Local timer interrupts
RES: 15454866 15827970 16235695 15386970 15761053 16097167 16190851
16159843 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 85 98 85 84 98 93 94
91 function call interrupts
TLB: 3565361 3561798 3570271 3566272 3556996 3555866 3578257
3564557 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 Threshold APIC interrupts
SPU: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 Spurious interrupts
Yikes! all wrong!
the network irq's are being ping-ponged around all the cores! bad!
1) turn the in-kernel IRQBALANCE option off !
2) use either the userspace `irqbalance` daemon or
3) set smp_affinity manually
Auke
>
> Regards,
> Willy
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-15 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-15 18:06 Anton Titov
2008-04-15 20:14 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-15 20:40 ` Kok, Auke [this message]
2008-04-15 22:36 ` Anton Titov
2008-04-16 4:27 ` Willy Tarreau
[not found] ` <175f5a0f0804151315x1e192fc7p7dac1e84fd154211@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <48051173.5030802@intel.com>
[not found] ` <48051734.1000107@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <1208426550.6049.10.camel@localhost>
2008-04-17 17:37 ` [PATCH] " Kok, Auke
2008-04-20 12:08 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-04-21 13:19 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-21 16:38 ` Kok, Auke
2008-04-21 15:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21 16:58 ` Kok, Auke
2008-04-21 18:35 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-22 5:07 ` Bill Fink
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