Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 14:16:01 +0900 From: Yonghyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Nils Beyer <nbe@renzel.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] alc(4) QAC AR816x/AR817x ethernet controller support Message-ID: <20141002051601.GB964@michelle.fasterthan.com> In-Reply-To: <20141001091521.9F867F96@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20140930015741.GA2451@michelle.fasterthan.com> <20140930082053.4D9EFF8F@hub.freebsd.org> <20140930085228.GB969@michelle.fasterthan.com> <20140930093516.80A8943F@hub.freebsd.org> <20141001003954.GA2632@michelle.fasterthan.com> <20141001091521.9F867F96@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 11:14:59AM +0200, Nils Beyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yonghyeon PYUN wrote:
> > Default interrupt moderation policy is targeted to reduce latency
> > so it will generate up to 10k interrupts/sec under high network
> > load. If you want to reduce number of interrupts/sec, tune
> > interrupt moderation sysctl variables mentioned in alc(4).
>
> Tried several values here:
>
> dev.alc.0.int_rx_mod={1000,10000,100000}
> dev.alc.0.int_tx_mod={1000,10000,100000}
>
> but didn't notice any changes neither in CPU usage nor throughput during the
> "iperf" test; "kernel{alc0 taskq}" stays at 70-75%. I've downed/upped the
> interface "alc0" after every change.
>
You may see difference when H/W handles tiny grams(i.e. 64 bytes
UDP frames). For bulk TCP/UDP transfers, alc(4) can easily
saturate the link.
> A simple iSCSI test using the native CTL interface works really well. A "fio"
> test results in 100MB/s read and write. Double-checking using "netstat -I"
> confirms gigabit-line speeds at around 120MB/s.
> CPU usage at "kernel{alc0 taskq}" is as high as in the "iperf" test. So I think
> that's a limitation of the AR8161 chip.
>
>
> > Updated the diff to address link establishment issue.
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/pci.quirk.diff
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/alc.diff.20141001
>
> Confirmed; with the anti-hibernation patch, link estalishment is now working
> flawlessly.
>
> Thank you very much for your work...
Thanks for your testing. Patch updated again to fix wrong lock
assertion.
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/alc.diff.20141002
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