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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Wei Gu <wei.gu@ericsson.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Subject: RE: Question on "net: allocate skbs on local node"
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:58:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1302152327.2701.50.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D12839161ADD3A4B8DA63D1A134D084026E48B9BEB@ESGSCCMS0001.eapac.ericsson.se>

Le jeudi 07 avril 2011 à 10:16 +0800, Wei Gu a écrit :
> Hi Eric,
> Testing with ixgbe Linux 2.6.38 driver:
> We have a little better thruput figure with this driver, but it looks
> not scalling at all, I always stressed one CPU core/24.
> And when look the perf report for ksoftirqd/24, the most cost function
> is still "_raw_spin_unlock_irqstore" and the IRQ/s is huge, it's
> somehow conflicts with desgin of NAPI. On linux 2.6.32 while the CPU
> was stressed the IRQ will descreased while the NAPI will running much
> on the polling mode. I don't know why on 2.6.38 the IRQ was keep
> increasing.


CC netdev and Intel guys, since they said it should not happen (TM)

IF you dont use DCA (make sure ioatdma module is not loaded), how comes
alloc_iova() is called at all ?

IF you use DCA, how comes its called, since the same CPU serves a given
interrupt ?



>  
> CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT=y
> CONFIG_NO_HZ=y
>  
> PerfTop:  512417 irqs/sec  kernel:91.3%  exact:  0.0% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs],  (all, 64 CPUs)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -      0.82%     ksoftirqd/24  [kernel.kallsyms]          [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore                                                                                                                                                 
> \u2592   - _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore                                                                                                                
> \u2592      - 44.27% alloc_iova                                                                                
> \u2592           intel_alloc_iova                                                                                                                                                                                                               
> \u2592           __intel_map_single                                                                             
> \u2592           intel_map_page                                                                                                              
> \u2592         - ixgbe_init_interrupt_scheme                                                                                                             
> \u2592            - 59.97% ixgbe_alloc_rx_buffers                                                                                                                 
> \u2592                 ixgbe_clean_rx_irq                                                                                                                
> \u2592                 0xffffffffa033a5                                                                                               
> \u2592                 net_rx_action                                                                                                                   
> u2592                 __do_softirq                                                                                                        
> \u2592               + call_softirq                                                                                                              
> \u2592            - 40.03% ixgbe_change_mtu                                                                                                                                                                                                     
> \u2592                 ixgbe_change_mtu                                                                                               
> \u2592                 dev_hard_start_xmit                                                       
> \u2592                 sch_direct_xmit                                                                   
> \u2592                 dev_queue_xmit                                                                                                 
> \u2592                 vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit                                                                                                                                                                                                 
> \u2592                 hook_func                                                                                                                                                                                                                
> \u2592                 nf_iterate                                                                                                                                                                                                              
> \u2592                nf_hook_slow                                                                                                                                                                                                             
> \u2592                 NF_HOOK.clone.1                                                                                                                                                                                                          
> \u2592                 ip_rcv                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
> \u2592                 __netif_receive_skb                                                                                                                                                                                                      
> \u2592                 __netif_receive_skb                                                                                                                                                                                                      
> \u2592                 netif_receive_skb                                                                                                                                                                                                        
> \u2592                 napi_skb_finish                                                                                                                                                                                                          
> \u2592                 napi_gro_receive                                                                                                                                                                                                         
> \u2592                 ixgbe_clean_rx_irq                                                                                                                                                                                                       
> \u2592                 0xffffffffa033a5                                                                                                                                                                                                         
> \u2592                 net_rx_action                                                                                                                                                                                                            
> \u2592                 __do_softirq                                                                                                                                                                                                             
> \u2592               + call_softirq                                                                                                                                                                                                             
> \u2592      + 35.85% find_iova                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
> \u2592      + 19.44% add_unmap      
>  
>  
> Thanks
> WeiGu
>  



       reply	other threads:[~2011-04-07  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <D12839161ADD3A4B8DA63D1A134D084026E48B9BEB@ESGSCCMS0001.eapac.ericsson.se>
2011-04-07  4:58 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-04-07  5:16   ` Question on "net: allocate skbs on local node" Eric Dumazet
2011-04-07  6:16     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-07  7:22       ` Low performance Intel 10GE NIC (3.2.10) on 2.6.38 Kernel Wei Gu
2011-04-07  8:07         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-07  8:39           ` Wei Gu
2011-04-07  9:06             ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-07 11:15               ` Wei Gu
2011-04-07 11:46                 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-07 13:41                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-07 15:58                   ` Alexander Duyck
2011-04-07 16:03                     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-07 16:20                       ` Alexander Duyck
2011-04-07 16:37                         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-08  8:59                         ` Wei Gu
2011-04-08  9:07                           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-08  9:15                             ` Wei Gu
2011-04-08  9:49                               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-08  9:59                                 ` Wei Gu
2011-04-08  9:41                             ` Wei Gu
2011-04-08 12:19                             ` Wei Gu
2011-04-08 12:56                               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-08 14:10                                 ` Wei Gu
2011-04-08 14:49                                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-04-09  3:51                                     ` Wei Gu
2011-04-08 15:07                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-09  3:27                                     ` Wei Gu
2011-04-09  6:36                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-10  7:02                                         ` Wei Gu
2011-04-11 14:50                                           ` Alexander Duyck
2011-04-11 15:00                                             ` Wei Gu
2011-04-11 15:14                                             ` Wei Gu
2011-04-11 15:42                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-12  1:22                                                 ` Wei Gu
2011-04-12  4:40                                                 ` Wei Gu
2011-04-12  4:56                                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-12  5:18                                                     ` Wei Gu
2011-04-14  5:42                                                 ` Wei Gu
2011-04-14  6:07                                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-14  6:33                                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-14  6:58                                                       ` Wei Gu
2011-04-14 16:42                                                         ` Alexander Duyck
2011-04-14 16:45                                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-14 16:56                                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-14 16:57                                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-14 17:49                                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-14 19:08                                                                 ` Alexander Duyck
2011-04-15  2:10                                                               ` Wei Gu
2011-04-15  8:57                                                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-15  9:14                                                                 ` Wei Gu
2011-04-18 21:12                                                                   ` Jesse Brandeburg
2011-04-19  4:09                                                                     ` Wei Gu
2011-04-21  2:57                                                                     ` Wei Gu
2011-04-21  3:25                                                                     ` Wei Gu
2011-04-08 16:22                               ` Alexander Duyck
2011-04-09  3:36                                 ` Wei Gu
2011-04-09  4:40                                   ` Alexander H Duyck
2011-04-09  6:12                                     ` Wei Gu

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