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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail•com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	eric.dumazet@gmail•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] Remove the ipv4 routing cache
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:13:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120726151312.2f3d9e02@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgT0Ue4mRUpEmKA7SNpTv8D7BKcxYQ65PGoOUkxB27sLuT1Rw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:03:39 -0700
Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail•com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:06 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft•net> wrote:
> > From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail•com>
> > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:26:26 -0700
> >
> >> The previous results were with a slight modifications to your earlier
> >> patch.  With this patch applied I am seeing 10.4Mpps with 8 queues,
> >> reaching a maximum of 11.6Mpps with 9 queues.
> >
> > For fun you might want to see what this patch does for your tests,
> > it should cut the number of fib_table_lookup() calls roughly in half.
> 
> So with your patch, Eric's patch, and this most recent patch we are
> now at 11.8Mpps with 8 or 9 queues.  At this point I am staring to hit
> the hardware limits since 82599 will typically max out at about 12Mpps
> w/ 9 queues.
> 
> Here is the latest perf results with all of these patches in place.
> As you predicted your patch essentially cut the lookup overhead in
> half:
>     10.65%  [k] ixgbe_poll
>      7.77%  [k] fib_table_lookup
>      6.21%  [k] ixgbe_xmit_frame_ring
>      6.08%  [k] __netif_receive_skb
>      4.41%  [k] _raw_spin_lock
>      3.95%  [k] kmem_cache_free
>      3.30%  [k] build_skb
>      3.17%  [k] memcpy
>      2.96%  [k] dev_queue_xmit
>      2.79%  [k] ip_finish_output
>      2.66%  [k] kmem_cache_alloc
>      2.57%  [k] check_leaf
>      2.52%  [k] ip_route_input_noref
>      2.50%  [k] netdev_alloc_frag
>      2.17%  [k] ip_rcv
>      2.16%  [k] __phys_addr
> 
> I will probably do some more poking around over the next few days in
> order to get my head around the fib_table_lookup overhead.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex
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The fib trie stats are global, you may want to either disable CONFIG_IP_FIB_TRIE_STATS
or convert them to per-cpu.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-26 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-20 21:25 [PATCH 00/16] Remove the ipv4 routing cache David Miller
2012-07-20 22:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-20 22:42   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-20 22:50     ` David Miller
2012-07-20 22:54       ` David Miller
2012-07-20 23:13         ` David Miller
2012-07-21  5:40           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-22  7:47 ` Vijay Subramanian
2012-07-22 19:42   ` David Miller
2012-07-23  0:39 ` David Miller
2012-07-23  7:15   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-23 17:54     ` Paweł Staszewski
2012-07-23 20:10       ` David Miller
2012-07-26 17:02       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-25 23:02 ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-25 23:17   ` David Miller
2012-07-25 23:39     ` David Miller
2012-07-26  0:54       ` David Miller
2012-07-26  2:30         ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-26  5:32           ` David Miller
2012-07-26  8:13         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26  8:18           ` David Miller
2012-07-26  8:27             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26  8:47               ` David Miller
2012-07-26  9:12                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26 17:18                 ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-26 17:30                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26 17:36                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26 17:43                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26 17:48                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26 18:26                           ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-26 21:06                             ` David Miller
2012-07-26 22:03                               ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-26 22:13                                 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-07-26 22:19                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26 22:48                                   ` David Miller
2012-07-26 22:53                                 ` David Miller
2012-07-27  2:14                                   ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-27  3:08                                     ` David Miller
2012-07-27  6:02                                       ` David Miller
2012-07-27 10:01                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-27 14:53                                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-07-27 15:12                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-27 16:23                                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-07-27 16:28                                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-27 19:06                                                   ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-28  4:15                                         ` David Miller
2012-07-28  5:45                                           ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-26 18:06                         ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-26 21:00                         ` David Miller
2012-07-26 20:59                   ` David Miller

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