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Date:      Sat, 3 May 2008 18:51:11 -0400
From:      "Alexander Sack" <pisymbol@gmail.com>
To:        "Oleksandr Samoylyk" <oleksandr@samoylyk.sumy.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Troubles with em on FreeBSD 7
Message-ID:  <3c0b01820805031551m5444d986y9f51f67264643874@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <912a71490805031516p3c35f419o62d614fc1649c48d@mail.gmail.com>
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Oleksandr:

Are you using DEVICE_POLLING by chance?  If so, have you tried turning
it off (ifconfig use -polling etc.)?  Just curious.

-aps

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Oleksandr Samoylyk
<oleksandr@samoylyk.sumy.ua> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>  I'm running a SMP FreeBSD box with mpd5 on it.
>
>  # uname -a
>  FreeBSD xxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Sat May  3
>  12:40:02 EEST 2008
>  xxxxx@xxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/XXXX  amd64
>
>  # mpd5 -v
>  Version 5.1 (root@xxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx 09:53  1-May-2008)
>
>  Somehow em0 begins to eat all CPU time of one core.
>
>  # top -S
>  last pid: 55827;  load averages:  3.76,  3.42,  3.08
>       up 0+03:27:38  16:24:20
>  104 processes: 11 running, 81 sleeping, 12 waiting
>  CPU states:  1.7% user,  0.0% nice, 21.4% system,  3.0% interrupt, 73.9% idle
>  Mem: 71M Active, 89M Inact, 340M Wired, 336K Cache, 214M Buf, 7418M Free
>  Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
>
>   PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>    29 root        1 -68    -     0K    16K CPU5   5 196:41 100.00% em0 taskq
>    11 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K CPU7   7 175:41 94.09% idle: cpu7
>    16 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K CPU2   2 175:45 91.26% idle: cpu2
>    15 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K CPU3   3 180:18 89.45% idle: cpu3
>    14 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K CPU4   4 177:13 87.89% idle: cpu4
>    17 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K CPU1   1 165:27 86.87% idle: cpu1
>    12 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K CPU6   6 176:18 83.25% idle: cpu6
>    18 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K RUN    0 157:44 80.66% idle: cpu0
>   611 root        6  58    0   133M 44320K select 0   0:00 66.26% mpd5
>    21 root        1 -44    -     0K    16K CPU4   4  48:38 21.39% swi1: net
>    30 root        1 -68    -     0K    16K -      6  21:41 10.25% em1 taskq
>
>  Everything is OK with outbound interface - em1.
>
>  Current bandwidth - ~ 80 Mbit/s
>
>  There are a lot of input errors on em0 (but no on em1):
>
>  # netstat -w 1 -I em0
>             input          (em0)           output
>    packets  errs      bytes    packets  errs      bytes colls
>       8012   923    2838565      12504     0    7943345     0
>       7934   874    2469244      12555     0    7728764     0
>       7931   976    2712035      12482     0    8006760     0
>       8015   813    2694716      10669     0    7796656     0
>       7975   733    2475193      12306     0    8032129     0
>       7871   825    2548198      12269     0    7789452     0
>       8072   961    2647014      11924     0    7260788     0
>       7909   983    2576145      10552     0    7479881     0
>  ^C
>
>  And systat -v looks strange with no interrupts on em0:
>
>     2 users    Load  1.34  1.61  1.62                  May  3 14:04
>
>  Mem:KB    REAL            VIRTUAL                       VN PAGER   SWAP PAGER
>         Tot   Share      Tot    Share    Free           in   out     in   out
>  Act   68152    9452   231584    11936 7786368  count
>  All  108516   10676  4486380    15448          pages
>  Proc:                                                            Interrupts
>   r   p   d   s   w   Csw  Trp  Sys  Int  Sof  Flt   3981 cow   22705 total
>              47       46k  10k 268k 6697  23k  10k   3973 zfod atkbd0 1
>                                                           ozfod ata0 irq14
>  18.3%Sys   2.3%Intr  1.8%User  0.0%Nice 77.6%Idle        %ozfod atapci1 19
>  |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |       daefr  2001 cpu0: time
>  =========+>                                          5699 prcfr     2 em0 irq256
>                                         55 dtbuf    12110 totfr  6695 em1 irq257
>  Namei     Name-cache   Dir-cache    100000 desvn          react  2001 cpu3: time
>    Calls    hits   %    hits   %      4217 numvn          pdwak  2001 cpu1: time
>    12005   12004 100                   304 frevn          pdpgs  2001 cpu2: time
>                                                        13 intrn  2001 cpu4: time
>  Disks   ad4                                        232692 wire   2001 cpu5: time
>  KB/t   0.00                                         60640 act    2001 cpu7: time
>  tps       0                                         28784 inact  2001 cpu6: time
>  MB/s   0.00                                           336 cache
>  %busy     0                                       7786032 free
>                                                    219632 buf
>
>  Latency grows up to 400 ms:
>  # ping 10.0.0.1
>  PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
>  64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=17.619 ms
>  64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=27.497 ms
>  64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=16.481 ms
>  64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=24.535 ms
>  64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=13.058 ms
>  ^C
>  --- 10.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
>  6 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 16.7% packet loss
>  round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 13.058/19.838/27.497/5.346 ms
>
>  # top -S
>  last pid: 55827;  load averages:  3.76,  3.42,  3.08
>       up 0+03:27:38  16:24:20
>  104 processes: 11 running, 81 sleeping, 12 waiting
>  CPU states:  1.7% user,  0.0% nice, 21.4% system,  3.0% interrupt, 73.9% idle
>  Mem: 71M Active, 89M Inact, 340M Wired, 336K Cache, 214M Buf, 7418M Free
>  Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
>
>   PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>    29 root        1 -68    -     0K    16K CPU5   5 196:41 100.00% em0 taskq
>    11 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K CPU7   7 175:41 94.09% idle: cpu7
>    16 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K CPU2   2 175:45 91.26% idle: cpu2
>    15 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K CPU3   3 180:18 89.45% idle: cpu3
>    14 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K CPU4   4 177:13 87.89% idle: cpu4
>    17 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K CPU1   1 165:27 86.87% idle: cpu1
>    12 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K CPU6   6 176:18 83.25% idle: cpu6
>    18 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K RUN    0 157:44 80.66% idle: cpu0
>   611 root        6  58    0   133M 44320K select 0   0:00 66.26% mpd5
>    21 root        1 -44    -     0K    16K CPU4   4  48:38 21.39% swi1: net
>    30 root        1 -68    -     0K    16K -      6  21:41 10.25% em1 taskq
>
>  # sysctl dev.em.0
>  dev.em.0.%desc: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.7.3
>  dev.em.0.%driver: em
>  dev.em.0.%location: slot=0 function=0
>  dev.em.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x8086 device=0x1096 subvendor=0x15d9
>  subdevice=0x0000 class=0x020000
>  dev.em.0.%parent: pci6
>  dev.em.0.debug: -1
>  dev.em.0.stats: -1
>  dev.em.0.rx_int_delay: 0
>  dev.em.0.tx_int_delay: 66
>  dev.em.0.rx_abs_int_delay: 66
>  dev.em.0.tx_abs_int_delay: 66
>  dev.em.0.rx_processing_limit: -1
>
>  I've tried both:
>  options         SCHED_ULE
>  options         SCHED_4BSD
>
>  I've added just the following lines in my kernel config:
>
>  options         IPFIREWALL
>  options         IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT
>
>  options         NETGRAPH
>  options         NETGRAPH_PPP
>  options         NETGRAPH_PPTPGRE
>
>
>  My sysctls:
>   net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
>  net.inet.ip.fastforwarding=1
>  net.inet.ip.redirect=0
>  net.inet.ip.random_id=1
>  net.inet.ip.ttl=255
>  net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen=4096
>
>  kern.maxfiles=131072
>  kern.maxfilesperproc=32768
>  kern.maxprocperuid=32768
>
>  kern.ipc.somaxconn=65535
>  kern.ipc.maxsockets=32768
>  kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=16777216
>
>  net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1
>  net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536
>  net.inet.tcp.sendspace=32768
>  net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=16777216
>  net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=16777216
>  net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_auto=1
>  net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc=8192
>  net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_auto=1
>  net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=16384
>  net.inet.tcp.maxtcptw=40960
>  net.inet.tcp.msl=2500
>  net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0
>  net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait=1
>
>  net.inet.udp.checksum=0
>  net.inet.udp.recvspace=65535
>  net.inet.udp.maxdgram=57344
>
>  net.inet.icmp.icmplim=30
>
>  net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2
>  net.inet.udp.blackhole=1
>
>  net.local.stream.recvspace=65535
>  net.local.stream.sendspace=65535
>
>  net.isr.direct=1
>
>  kern.timecounter.hardware=TSC
>
>  dev.em.0.rx_processing_limit=-1
>
>  If I set net.isr.direct to "0", than sw1: net begins to eat 100% of a
>  core, but without errors:
>  # netstat -w 1 -I em0
>             input          (em0)           output
>    packets  errs      bytes    packets  errs      bytes colls
>       6953     0    2860537       8703     0    4882814     0
>       6785     0    2587635       7683     0    4443958     0
>       7006     0    2576630       8718     0    4924591     0
>       6887     0    2652461       8272     0    4548049     0
>       6854     0    2610157       8689     0    5152459     0
>       6889     0    2586067       8265     0    5010795     0
>       6878     0    2586746       8255     0    4734959     0
>  ^C
>
>  Moreover, with net.isr.direct=0 I can't create a PPTP tunnel.
>
>  Please, help to solve the problem. Thanks!
>
>  --
>   Oleksandr Samoylyk
>   OVS-RIPE
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