Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:54:02 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein@rdtc.ru> To: "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org> Cc: marius@freebsd.org, yongari@freebsd.org Subject: suboptimal bge(4) BCM5704 performance in RELENG_8 Message-ID: <4F5608EA.6080705@rdtc.ru>
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Hi! Yesterday I've updated old HP ProLiant DL360 G4p to 8.3-PRELELEASE/amd64 running busy icecast2 server in hope it can saturate 1G bge(4) link. This server has PCI-X connected HP NC7782 Gigabit Server Adapter (BCM5704). Is it supposed to emit more than 540Mbit/s with average packet size equal to 1300? netstat shows increasing "Drop" counters: # netstat -id Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Idrop Opkts Oerrs Coll Drop bge0 1500 <Link#1> 00:18:fe:86:ab:f4 635577217 0 0 1047897138 0 0 454509 vmstat shows relatively high but pretty sane interrupt rate: # vmstat -i | grep bge irq25: bge0 232949783 10149 Input traffic is less than 20Mbit/s meantime, output does not go above 540Mbit/s. Its mbufs usage is normal (server has 2G RAM): # netstat -m 13459/15986/29445 mbufs in use (current/cache/total) 13322/13112/26434/262144 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 13322/13046 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache) 0/104/104/131072 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/65536 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/32768 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 30008K/30636K/60645K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total) 0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters) 0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k) 0/0/0 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for sfbufs delayed 0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile 0 calls to protocol drain routines I've glanced at bge(4) code and see it uses lots of hardcoded constants for rx/tx descriptor rings, for interrupt moderation and for interface FIFO queue. And no loader tunnables/sysctls like em/igb have. Should I try to play with constants in the code and if so, what are limits of this chip? Or it will never be capable of utilizing full gigabit speed? Eugene Grosbeinhome | help
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