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From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Collins <bsderandrew@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipsec smp scalability and cpu use fairness (softirqs)
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:19:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130820061914.GA26773@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130813154102.35739102@vostro>

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 03:41:02PM +0300, Timo Teras wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:56:52 +0200
> Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'll do some tests with current net-next on my own tomorrow and let
> > you know about the results.
> 
> Yes, I've got pcrypt there. Apparently I had some of the cpu bindings
> not right, so now it's looking a lot better. But it seems that
> ksoftirqd on one of the CPUs becomes first bottleneck. I'll try to
> figure out why.
> 
> Thanks on all the info so far, will continue experimenting here too.

Here are the promised test results:

I used my test boxes with two nodes (Intel Xeon X5550  @ 2.67GHz) and all
cores utilized (16 logical cores). I did iperf box to box IPsec tunnel
tests with the crypto algorithm:

pcrypt(authenc(hmac(sha1-ssse3),cbc(aes-asm)))

Throughput is at 1.70 Gbits/sec.

Same test without pcrypt, i.e. crypto algorithm:

authenc(hmac(sha1-ssse3),cbc(aes-asm))

Throughput is at 560 Mbits/sec.

Unfortunately I can't do forwarding tests, I have only two 10 Gbit NICs.
Would be nice if I could get forwarding test results from somewhere.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-20  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-12 13:01 ipsec smp scalability and cpu use fairness (softirqs) Timo Teras
2013-08-12 21:58 ` Andrew Collins
2013-08-13  6:23   ` Timo Teras
2013-08-13  7:46     ` Steffen Klassert
2013-08-13  7:57       ` Timo Teras
2013-08-13 10:45         ` Steffen Klassert
2013-08-13 11:33           ` Timo Teras
2013-08-13 11:56             ` Steffen Klassert
2013-08-13 12:41               ` Timo Teras
2013-08-20  6:19                 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2013-08-20  6:39                   ` Timo Teras
2013-08-20  6:17         ` Steffen Klassert

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