Re: Scalability of interface creation and deletion

Eric Dumazet
2011-05-07T16:26:33Z

Le samedi 07 mai 2011 à 16:26 +0100, Alex Bligh a écrit :

> On the current 8 core box I am testing, I see 280ms per interface
> delete **even with only 10 interfaces**. I see 260ms with one
> interface. I know doing lots of rcu sync stuff can be slow, but
> 260ms to remove one veth pair sounds like more than rcu sync going
> on. It sounds like a sleep (though I may not have found the
> right one). I see no CPU load.
>

Here, on 2.6.38 kernel (Ubuntu 11.04 provided, on my 2 core laptop)

# time rmmod dummy

real 0m0.111s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

This removed my two dummy0/dummy1 devices.

On another machine with a very recent kernel :
$ modprobe dummy numdummies=1
$ ifconfig dummy0 192.168.46.46 up
$ time rmmod dummy

real 0m0.032s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.001s
$ uname -a
Linux svivoipvnx001 2.6.39-rc6-00097-g6ac1576-dirty #550 SMP Sat May 7
00:12:26 CEST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

So 260ms is a bit too much, maybe you hit yet another bug.