Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 23:08:11 -0400 From: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: FreeBSD Net <net@freebsd.org>, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Subject: Re: TSO help or hindrance ? (was Re: TSO and FreeBSD vs Linux) Message-ID: <596C2208-BC2A-417B-B46F-300D5886C087@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <522FA2C3.7010109@sentex.net> References: <979862494.17918795.1378299005617.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca> <52275136.1010105@sentex.net> <1378852936.95477.YahooMailNeo@web121601.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <522FA2C3.7010109@sentex.net>
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Didn't read down far enough. There are def issues and gains are probably mo= stly in a lab with 9k frames. Turn it off. CPUs and buses are fast.=20 BC On Sep 10, 2013, at 6:52 PM, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote: > On 9/10/2013 6:42 PM, Barney Cordoba wrote: >> NFS has been broken since Day 1, so lets not come to conclusions about >> anything >> as it relates to NFS. >=20 > iSCSI is NFS ? >=20 > ---Mike >=20 >>=20 >> BC >>=20 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> *From:* Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> >> *To:* Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> >> *Cc:* FreeBSD Net <net@freebsd.org>; David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.or= g> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 4, 2013 11:26 AM >> *Subject:* TSO help or hindrance ? (was Re: TSO and FreeBSD vs Linux) >>=20 >> On 9/4/2013 8:50 AM, Rick Macklem wrote: >>> David Wolfskill wrote: >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>> I noticed that when I tried to write files to NFS, I could write >>>> small >>>> files OK, but larger ones seemed to ... hang. >>>> * "ifconfig -v em0" showed flags TSO4 & VLAN_HWTSO turned on. >>>> * "sysctl net.inet.tcp.tso" showed "1" -- enabled. >>>>=20 >>>> As soon as I issued "sudo net.inet.tcp.tso=3D0" ... the copy worked >>>> without >>>> a hitch or a whine. And I was able to copy all 117709618 bytes, not >>>> just >>>> 2097152 (2^21). >>>>=20 >>>> Is the above expected? It came rather as a surprise to me. >>>>=20 >>> Not surprising to me, I'm afraid. When there are serious NFS problems >>> like this, it is often caused by a network fabric issue and broken >>> TSO is at the top of the list w.r.t. cause. >>=20 >>=20 >> I was just experimenting a bit with iSCSI via FreeNAS and was a little >> disappointed at the speeds I was getting. So, I tried disabling tso on >> both boxes and it did seem to speed things up a bit. Data and testing >> methods attached in a txt file. >>=20 >> I did 3 cases. >>=20 >> Just boot up FreeNAS and the initiator without tweaks. That had the >> worst performance. >> disable tso on the nic as well as via sysctl on both boxes. That had the >> best performance. >> re-enable tso on both boxes. That had better performance than the first >> case, but still not as good as totally disabling it. I am guessing >> something is not quite being re-enabled properly ? But its different >> than the other two cases ?!? >>=20 >> tgt is FreeNAS-9.1.1-RELEASE-x64 (a752d35) and initiator is r254328 9.2 >> AMD64 >>=20 >> The FreeNAS box has 16G of RAM, so the file is being served out of cache >> as gstat shows no activity when sending out the file >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> ---Mike >>=20 >>=20 >> --=20 >> ------------------- >> Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 >> Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net <mailto:mike@sentex.net> >> Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net >> Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ >>=20 >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-net@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-net@freebsd.org> mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org >> <mailto:freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" >>=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > ------------------- > Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 > Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net > Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net > Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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