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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:54:20 -0500
From:      Eric Dombroski <eric@edombroski.com>
To:        Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@daemoninthecloset.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Major performance/stability regression in virtio network drivers between 9.2-RELEASE and 10.0-RC5
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Hello Bryan:

I'm not using DHCP on that interface.

I'll throw out there this only appears to happen with receive, I still get
good performance on send.

client:
$ iperf -c 192.168.100.5 -r -t 20

freebsd server:

$ sudo iperf -s
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  4] local 192.168.100.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.100.6 port 43573
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]  0.0-20.0 sec  7.00 GBytes  3.01 Gbits/sec ******** slow
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.100.6, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 40.5 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  4] local 192.168.100.5 port 35167 connected with 192.168.100.6 port 5001
Waiting for server threads to complete. Interrupt again to force quit.
[  4]  0.0-20.0 sec  46.5 GBytes  20.0 Gbits/sec ******** expected








On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Bryan Venteicher <
bryanv@daemoninthecloset.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=185864
> >
> >
>
> There's a couple things going on here.
>
> First, we're spending an absurd amount of time in bpf [1], specifically
> when getting the time value in acpi_timer_get_timecount(). This amounts
> to nearly 25% of the profiled run. I'm guessing that a filter is using
> BPF_TSTAMP_NORMAL in 10.0, where as it was using BPF_TSTAMP_FAST in 9.2.
>
> Are you using DHCP on the vtnetX interface? Can you use a static IP instead
> (and perhaps also even remove `device bpf` from your kernel config to be
> sure)?
>
> Second, the rate of Tx completion interrupts much higher than I recall.
> I'm still thinking about this.
>
> [1] - http://people.freebsd.org/~bryanv/vtnet/vtnet-bpf-10.svg
>
> Bryan
>
> > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Eric Dombroski <eric@edombroski.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello:
> > >
> > > I believe there is a major performance regression between FreeBSD
> > > 9.2-RELEASE and 10.0-RC5 involving the virtio network drivers (vtnet)
> and
> > > handling incoming traffic.  Below are the results of some iperf tests
> and
> > > large dd operations over NFS.  Write throughput goes from ~40Gbps to
> > > ~2.4Gbps from 9.2 to 10.0RC5, and over time the connection becomes
> unstable
> > > ("no buffer space available"), requiring the interface to be taken
> down/up.
> > >
> > >
> > > These results are on fresh installs of 9.2 and 10.0RC5, no sysctl
> tweaks
> > > on either system.
> > >
> > > I can't reproduce this using an Intel 1Gbps ethernet through PCIe
> > > passthrough, although I suspect the problem manifests itself over 1Gbps
> > > speeds anyway.
> > >
> > > Tests:
> > >
> > > Client (host):
> > >   root@gogo:~# uname -a
> > >   Linux gogo 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > >   root@gogo:~# kvm -version
> > >   QEMU emulator version 1.1.2 (qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg-6, Debian),
> Copyright
> > > (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
> > >   root@gogo:~# lsmod | grep vhost
> > >   vhost_net              27436  3
> > >   tun                    18337  8 vhost_net
> > >   macvtap                17633  1 vhost_net
> > >
> > >
> > >   Command: iperf -c 192.168.100.x -t 60
> > >
> > >
> > > Server (FreeBSD 9.2 VM):
> > >
> > >       root@umarotest:~ # uname -a
> > >       FreeBSD umarotest 9.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Sat
> Jan
> > > 11 03:25:02 UTC 2014
> > > root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> > >  amd64
> > >       root@umarotest:~ # iperf -s
> > >       ------------------------------------------------------------
> > >       Server listening on TCP port 5001
> > >       TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default)
> > >       ------------------------------------------------------------
> > >       [  4] local 192.168.100.44 port 5001 connected with 192.168.100.1
> > > port 58996
> > >       [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> > >       [  4]  0.0-60.0 sec   293 GBytes  41.9 Gbits/sec
> > >       [  5] local 192.168.100.44 port 5001 connected with 192.168.100.1
> > > port 58997
> > >       [  5]  0.0-60.0 sec   297 GBytes  42.5 Gbits/sec
> > >       [  4] local 192.168.100.44 port 5001 connected with 192.168.100.1
> > > port 58998
> > >       [  4]  0.0-60.0 sec   291 GBytes  41.6 Gbits/sec
> > >       [  5] local 192.168.100.44 port 5001 connected with 192.168.100.1
> > > port 58999
> > >       [  5]  0.0-60.0 sec   297 GBytes  42.6 Gbits/sec
> > >       [  4] local 192.168.100.44 port 5001 connected with 192.168.100.1
> > > port 59000
> > >       [  4]  0.0-60.0 sec   297 GBytes  42.5 Gbits/sec
> > >
> > >       While pinging out from the server to the client, I do not get any
> > > errors.
> > >
> > >
> > >       root@umaro:~ # uname -a FreeBSD umaro 10.0-RC5 FreeBSD 10.0-RC5
> #0
> > > r260430: Wed Jan  8 05:10:04 UTC 2014
> > > root@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> > >  amd64
> > >       root@umaro:~ # iperf -s
> > >       ------------------------------------------------------------
> > >       Server listening on TCP port 5001
> > >       TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default)
> > >       ------------------------------------------------------------
> > >       [  4] local 192.168.100.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.100.1
> > > port 50264
> > >       [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> > >       [  4]  0.0-60.0 sec  16.7 GBytes  2.39 Gbits/sec
> > >       [  5] local 192.168.100.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.100.1
> > > port 50265
> > >       [  5]  0.0-60.0 sec  18.3 GBytes  2.62 Gbits/sec
> > >       [  4] local 192.168.100.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.100.1
> > > port 50266
> > >       [  4]  0.0-60.0 sec  16.8 GBytes  2.40 Gbits/sec
> > >       [  5] local 192.168.100.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.100.1
> > > port 50267
> > >       [  5]  0.0-60.0 sec  16.8 GBytes  2.40 Gbits/sec
> > >       [  4] local 192.168.100.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.100.1
> > > port 50268
> > >       [  4]  0.0-60.0 sec  16.8 GBytes  2.41 Gbits/sec
> > >
> > >       *** While pinging out from the server to client, frequent "ping:
> > > sendto: No space left on device" errors ***
> > >
> > >
> > >       After a while, I can also reliably re-produce more egregious
> "ping:
> > > sendto: No buffer space available" errors after doing a large
> sequential
> > > write over NFS:
> > >
> > >       mount -t nfs -o rsize=65536,wsize=65536 192.168.100.5:
> /storage/shared
> > > /mnt/nfs
> > >       dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/nfs/testfile bs=1M count=30000
> > >
> > > I am going to file a freebsd bug report as well.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Eric
> > >
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