Re: A second case of XPS considerably reducing single-stream performance

2016-08-25 Thread Tom Herbert
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Rick Jones wrote: >> Also, while it doesn't seem to have the same massive effect on throughput, I >> can also see out of order behaviour happening when the sending VM is on a >> node with a ConnectX-3 Pro

Re: A second case of XPS considerably reducing single-stream performance

2016-08-25 Thread Alexander Duyck
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Rick Jones wrote: > On 08/25/2016 12:19 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote: >> >> The problem is that there is no socket associated with the guest from >> the host's perspective. This is resulting in the traffic bouncing >> between queues because there is no saved socket

Re: A second case of XPS considerably reducing single-stream performance

2016-08-25 Thread Rick Jones
On 08/25/2016 12:19 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote: The problem is that there is no socket associated with the guest from the host's perspective. This is resulting in the traffic bouncing between queues because there is no saved socket to lock the interface onto. I was looking into this recently as

Re: A second case of XPS considerably reducing single-stream performance

2016-08-25 Thread Alexander Duyck
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Rick Jones wrote: > Also, while it doesn't seem to have the same massive effect on throughput, I > can also see out of order behaviour happening when the sending VM is on a > node with a ConnectX-3 Pro NIC. Its driver is also enabling XPS it would > seem. I'm not

Re: A second case of XPS considerably reducing single-stream performance

2016-08-24 Thread Rick Jones
Also, while it doesn't seem to have the same massive effect on throughput, I can also see out of order behaviour happening when the sending VM is on a node with a ConnectX-3 Pro NIC. Its driver is also enabling XPS it would seem. I'm not *certain* but looking at the traces it appears that wit

A second case of XPS considerably reducing single-stream performance

2016-08-24 Thread Rick Jones
Back in February of this year, I reported some performance issues with the ixgbe driver enabling XPS by default and instance network performance in OpenStack: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg362915.html I've now seen the same thing with be2net and Skyhawk. In this case, the magnitude