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* V2.4 policy router operates faster/better than V2.6
@ 2005-01-03 20:55 Jeremy M. Guthrie
  2005-01-03 22:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 88+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy M. Guthrie @ 2005-01-03 20:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I have a dual processor box running Suse 9.1 Ent. that I changed over to the 
V2.6.10 kernel.  The box has two interfaces in it, both E1000s.  The box 
receives anywhere from  200mbit to 500+ mbit that it needs to route out to 
other boxes.  The policy routing table is running ~ 150-200 rules.  ie.  data 
comes in E3(e1000), is policy routed to a destination sent out E2(e1000).

Under V2.4 kernels, the system will operate just fine and drop few packets if 
any.  ie. right now under V2.4, I have dropped all of three packets.  Under 
2.6, I can watch the RX drop counter increment.  See below.

[h-pr-msn-1 guthrie 1:48pm]~-> ifconfig eth3 ; sleep 10 ; ifconfig eth3
eth3      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:B3:D5:7E:30
          inet addr:10.253.0.1  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:b3ff:fed5:7e30/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:132919934 errors:311285 dropped:311285 overruns:247225 
frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2630721320 (2508.8 Mb)  TX bytes:484 (484.0 b)
          Base address:0x22a0 Memory:eff80000-effa0000

eth3      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:B3:D5:7E:30
          inet addr:10.253.0.1  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:b3ff:fed5:7e30/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:133847068 errors:325697 dropped:325697 overruns:258546 
frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3102796062 (2959.0 Mb)  TX bytes:484 (484.0 b)
          Base address:0x22a0 Memory:eff80000-effa0000

If I turn off the policy routing, I instantly stop getting RX errors or 
overruns as it appears the CPU can now pay attention to the packets coming in 
and drop them(as I turned off IP forwarding as well).

V2.4 Kernel mpstat data:
command:  mpstat -P ALL 60
Linux 2.4.21-251-smp (h-pr-msn-1) 12/15/2004

01:16:24 PM  CPU   %user   %nice %system   %idle    intr/s
01:17:19 PM  all    0.16    0.00   50.12   49.72  42114.18
01:17:19 PM    0    0.12    0.00   55.60   44.28  42114.18
01:17:19 PM    1    0.20    0.00   44.65   55.15  42114.18

01:17:19 PM  CPU   %user   %nice %system   %idle    intr/s
01:18:19 PM  all    0.13    0.00   48.49   51.38  42103.08
01:18:19 PM    0    0.13    0.00   31.88   67.98  42103.08
01:18:19 PM    1    0.13    0.00   65.10   34.77  42103.08

V2.6 kernel mpstat data:
command:  mpstat -P ALL 60
Linux 2.6.5-7.111.5-smp (h-pr-msn-1)         12/15/04

13:36:25     CPU   %user   %nice %system %iowait    %irq   %soft   %idle    
intr/s
13:37:25     all    0.13    0.00    0.15    0.09    2.03   43.14   54.45  
25506.53
13:37:25       0    0.17    0.00    0.08    0.18    0.00   16.81   82.76   
2215.63
13:37:25       1    0.08    0.00    0.20    0.00    4.08   69.49   26.14  
23291.34

13:37:25     CPU   %user   %nice %system %iowait    %irq   %soft   %idle    
intr/s
13:38:24     all    0.14    0.00    0.12    0.12    2.02   42.89   54.71  
25900.70
13:38:24       0    0.03    0.00    0.05    0.22    0.00   16.67   83.03   
2246.10
13:38:24       1    0.25    0.00    0.20    0.03    4.02   69.12   26.40  
23654.55

Any insights as to why there would be such a stark difference in performance 
between V2.6 and V2.4?

Please advise.

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Jeremy M. Guthrie        jeremy.guthrie@berbee.com
Senior Network Engineer        Phone: 608-298-1061
Berbee                           Fax: 608-288-3007
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2005-01-03 22:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-01-03 22:56   ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-05 13:18     ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-05 15:18       ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-05 16:30         ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-05 17:35           ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-05 19:25             ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-05 20:22               ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-05 20:52                 ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-06 15:26                 ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-06 18:15                   ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-06 19:35                     ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-06 20:29                       ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-06 20:54                         ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-06 20:55                         ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-06 21:19                         ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-06 21:36                           ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-06 21:46                             ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-06 22:11                               ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-06 22:18                                 ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-06 22:35                                   ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-07 16:17                                     ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-07 19:18                                       ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-07 19:38                                         ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-07 20:07                                           ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-07 20:14                                           ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-07 20:40                                             ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-07 21:06                                               ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-07 21:30                                                 ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-11 15:11                                                   ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-07 22:28                                             ` Jesse Brandeburg
2005-01-07 22:50                                               ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-07 22:57                                                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-01-11 15:17                                                   ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-11 16:40                                                     ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-12  1:27                                                       ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-12 15:11                                                         ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-12 16:24                                                           ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-12 19:27                                                             ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-12 20:11                                                               ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-12 20:21                                                                 ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-12 20:30                                                                   ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-12 20:45                                                                   ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-12 22:02                                                                     ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-12 22:21                                                                       ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
     [not found]                                                                         ` <16869.42247.126428.508479@robur.slu.se>
2005-01-12 22:42                                                                           ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-12 22:47                                                                           ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-12 23:19                                                                             ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-12 23:23                                                                               ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-13  8:56                                                                                 ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-13 19:28                                                                                   ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-13 20:00                                                                                     ` David S. Miller
2005-01-13 20:43                                                                                       ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-13 23:13                                                                                         ` David S. Miller
2005-01-13 21:12                                                                                     ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-13 22:27                                                                                       ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-14 15:44                                                                                         ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-14 14:59                                                                                       ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-14 16:05                                                                                         ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-14 19:00                                                                                           ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-14 19:26                                                                                             ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-16 12:32                                                                                               ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-16 16:22                                                                                                 ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-19 15:03                                                                                                 ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-19 22:18                                                                                                   ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-20  1:50                                                                                                     ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-20 11:30                                                                                                       ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-20 14:37                                                                                                         ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-20 17:01                                                                                                           ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-20 17:14                                                                                                             ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-20 21:53                                                                                                               ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-21 21:20                                                                                                                 ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-21 15:23                                                                                                               ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-21 21:24                                                                                                                 ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-31 15:37                                                                                                               ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-31 18:06                                                                                                                 ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-12 22:05                                                                     ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-12 22:22                                                                       ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-12 22:30                                                                         ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-11 17:17                                                     ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-11 18:46                                                       ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-12  1:30                                                         ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
2005-01-12 16:02                                                           ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-04 15:07   ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
     [not found] <200501071619.54566.jeremy.guthrie@berbee.com>
2005-01-07 23:23 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2005-01-10 21:11   ` Jeremy M. Guthrie
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