Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:50:48 +0100 From: Marcin Markowski <mmarkowski@leon.pl> To: <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Performance problem using Intel X520-DA2 Message-ID: <94bb160090e45c85083176023a278f85@leon.pl> In-Reply-To: <D048333F-BF93-4A2E-8081-F5AC39C09B35@gmail.com> References: <a231a44c6c803075c7b456a6189ff6ce@leon.pl> <CAFOYbcksi7KBpEjH=-hHEoTr35ynwYk98Ushw9nzR27H%2BGVBFA@mail.gmail.com> <jfmbam$37c$1@dough.gmane.org> <909994c3cdd84cb2c47ff8037c23e142@leon.pl> <jfoqr8$mld$1@dough.gmane.org> <D048333F-BF93-4A2E-8081-F5AC39C09B35@gmail.com>
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On 25.01.2012 14:18, Nikolay Denev wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Ivan Voras wrote:
>
>> On 24/01/2012 17:53, Marcin Markowski wrote:
>>> On 24.01.2012 14:22, Ivan Voras wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Marcin
>>>>> Markowski<mmarkowski@leon.pl>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> (on 9.0 we can see also kernel thread named {ix0 que} using 100%
>>>>>> CPU),
>>>>
>>>>>> hw.ixgbe.num_queues=16
>>>>
>>>> If there really are 16 hardware queues, shouldn't there be 16
>>>> kernel
>>>> threads for queue processing?
>>>
>>> There are 16 threads, but only one of them consumes 100% CPU and
>>> the others
>>> do not use more than 5% CPU:
>>>
>>> http://pastebin.com/BWDWh8kW
>>
>> You need Jack to confirm it but this looks like a serious problem /
>> bottleneck. It just shouldn't be like that (if the test is exactly the
>> same).
>>
>
> Is this by any chance non-IP traffic (or encapsulated in some way).
> I remember similar thread :
>
> http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/igb-ixgbe-RSS-RX-queues-for-non-IP-traffic-td4778961.html
Most of the traffic received by the interface is a TCP/UDP, but there
is also a PPPoE (~2.5Gbps/s).
The whole is divided into a large number of VLANs (>500)
--
Marcin Markowski
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