Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 19:51:51 +0200 From: Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unstable local network throughput Message-ID: <246672E7-78D9-4421-9214-DE66C32D47FA@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmongwvbY3QqKBV%2BFJCHOfSdr-=v9CmLH1z=Tqwz19AtUpg@mail.gmail.com> References: <3C0D892F-2BE8-4650-B9FC-93C8EE0443E1@gmail.com> <bed13ae3-0b8f-b1af-7418-7bf1b9fc74bc@selasky.org> <3B164B7B-CBFB-4518-B57D-A96EABB71647@gmail.com> <5D6DF8EA-D9AA-4617-8561-2D7E22A738C3@gmail.com> <BD0B68D1-CDCD-4E09-AF22-34318B6CEAA7@gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomW0Wth-uQU-OPTfRAsXW1kTDy-VyO2w-pgNosb-N1o=Q@mail.gmail.com> <B4D77A84-8F02-43E7-AD65-5B92423FC344@gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmo=Mfcvd41gtrt8GJfEtP-DQFfXt7pZ8eRLQzu73M=sX4A@mail.gmail.com> <7DD30CE7-32E6-4D26-91D4-C1D4F2319655@gmail.com> <CAJ-VmongwvbY3QqKBV%2BFJCHOfSdr-=v9CmLH1z=Tqwz19AtUpg@mail.gmail.com>
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> On 11 Aug 2016, at 18:36, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > Hi! Hi Adrian, > mlx4_core0: <mlx4_core> mem > 0xfbe00000-0xfbefffff,0xfb000000-0xfb7fffff irq 64 at device 0.0 > numa-domain 1 on pci16 > mlx4_core: Initializing mlx4_core: Mellanox ConnectX VPI driver v2.1.6 > (Aug 11 2016) >=20 > so the NIC is in numa-domain 1. Try pinning the worker threads to > numa-domain 1 when you run the test: >=20 > numactl -l first-touch-rr -m 1 -c 1 ./test-program # numactl -l first-touch-rr -m 1 -c 1 /usr/local/bin/iperf -c = 192.168.2.1 -l 128KB -P 16 -i 2 -t 6000 =20 Could not parse policy: '128KB' I did not manage to give arguments to command. Any idea ? # numactl -l first-touch-rr -m 1 -c 1 /usr/local/bin/iperf = =20 numactl: numa_setaffinity: Invalid argument And sounds like -m is not allowed with first-touch-rr. What should I use ? Thank you ! > You can also try pinning the NIC threads to numa-domain 1 versus 0 (so > the second set of CPUs, not the first set.) >=20 > vmstat -ia | grep mlx (get the list of interrupt thread ids) > then for each: >=20 > cpuset -d 1 -x <irq id> >=20 > Run pcm-memory.x each time so we can see the before and after effects > on local versus remote memory access. >=20 > Thanks! >=20 >=20 >=20 > -adrian
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