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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp•com>
To: Jerry Chu <hkchu@google•com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat•com>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>
Subject: Re: qlen check in tun.c
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:49:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C20B3E.1050708@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPshTCj+2wx=LhHujMqiZc1ptvGbcn+V7P9aAhBELHf6cbL+jg@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/19/2013 12:39 PM, Jerry Chu wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat•com> wrote:
>> On 06/19/2013 10:31 AM, Jerry Chu wrote:
>>> In tun_net_xmit() the max qlen is computed as
>>> dev->tx_queue_len / tun->numqueues. For multi-queue configuration the
>>> latter may be way too small, forcing one to adjust txqueuelen based
>>> on number of queues created. (Well the default txqueuelen of
>>> 500/TUN_READQ_SIZE already seems too small even for single queue.)
>>
>> Hi Jerry:
>>
>> Do you have some test result of this? Anyway, tun allows userspace to
>> adjust this value based on its requirement.
>
> Sure, but the default size of 500 is just way too small. queue overflows even
> with a simple single-stream throughput test through Openvswitch due to CPU
> scheduler anomaly. On our loaded multi-stream test even 8192 can't prevent
> queue overflow. But then with 8192 we'll be deep into the "buffer
> bloat" territory.

Assuming this single-stream is a netperf test, what happens when you cap 
the socket buffers to 724000 bytes?  Put another way, is this simply a 
situation where the autotuning of the socket buffers/window is taking a 
connection somewhere it shouldn't go?

> We haven't figured out an optimal strategy for thruput vs latency, but
> suffice to say 500 is too small.

Just what is the bandwidthXdelay product through the openvswitch?

happy benchmarking,

rick

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-19 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-19  2:31 qlen check in tun.c Jerry Chu
2013-06-19  3:29 ` Jason Wang
2013-06-19 19:39   ` Jerry Chu
2013-06-19 19:49     ` Rick Jones [this message]
2013-06-19 20:42       ` Jerry Chu
2013-06-19 21:37         ` Rick Jones
2013-06-20  8:07     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-24  5:13       ` Jason Wang
2013-06-25 22:23       ` Jerry Chu
2013-06-26  5:23         ` Jason Wang
     [not found]           ` <CAPshTCjbOnZJ6c2tyLbBqZ3Pz=xi+cBMvi=0BqPDyiXJ+jDDOA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-06-26  5:44             ` Jason Wang
2013-06-21  6:44     ` Jason Wang

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