[ovs-dev] 64Byte packet performance regression on 2.9 from 2.7

Shahaji Bhosle shahaji.bhosle at broadcom.com
Mon Jun 18 14:20:55 UTC 2018


Thanks Ilya, I will look at the commit, but not sure now how to tell how
much real work is being done, I would have liked polling cycles to be
treated as before and not towards packet processing. That does explain, as
long as there are packets on the wire we are always 100%, basically cannot
tell how efficiently the CPUs are being used.
Thanks, Shahaji

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the data.
>
> I have to note additionally that the meaning of "processing cycles"
> significantly changed since the following commit:
>
>     commit a2ac666d5265c01661e189caac321d962f54649f
>     Author: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com>
>     Date:   Mon Feb 20 12:53:00 2017 +0000
>
>         dpif-netdev: Change definitions of 'idle' & 'processing' cycles
>
>         Instead of counting all polling cycles as processing cycles, only
> count
>         the cycles where packets were received from the polling.
>
> This could explain the difference in "PMD Processing Cycles" column,
> because successful "POLLING" cycles are now included into "PROCESSING".
>
> Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
>
> On 18.06.2018 16:31, Shahaji Bhosle wrote:
> > Hi Ilya,
> > Thanks for the quick reply,
> > Please find the numbers for our PHY-PHY test, please note that with OVS
> 2.9.1 + DPDK 17.11 even a 10% of the below numbers will make the OVS
> 2.9+DPDK17.11 processing cycles to hit 100%, but 2.7 will on our setup
> never goes above 75% for processing cycles. I am also attaching the perf
> report between the two code bases and I think the
> "11.26%--dp_netdev_pmd_flush_output_packets" is causing us to take the
> performance hit. Out testing is also SRIOV and CPUs are ARM A72 cores. We
> are happy to run more tests, it is not easy for use to move back to OVS
> 2.8, but could happy to try more experiments if it helps us narrow down
> further. Please note we have also tried increasing the tx-flush-interval
> and it helps a little but still not significant enough. Let us know.
> >
> > Thanks, Shahaji
> >
> >
> > *Setup:*
> > IXIA<----SFP28--->Port 0 {(PF0)==[OVS+DPDK]==(PF1)} Port
> 1<-----SFP28---->IXIA
> >
> > release/version       config  Test    direction       MPPS    Ixia Line
> rate (%)      PMD Processing Cycles (%)
> > OVS 2.9 + DPDK 17.11  OVS on Maia (PF0--PF1)  No drop port 1 to 2
>  31.3    85      99.9
> >                                                       port 2 to 1
>  31.3    85      99.9
> >                                                       bi      15.5 +
> 15.5     42      99.9
> >
> >
> > OVS 2.7 + DPDK 16.11  OVS on Maia (PF0--PF1)  No drop port 1 to 2
>  33.8    90      71
> >                                                       port 2 to 1
>  32.7    88      70
> >                                                       bi      17.4+17.4
>      47      74
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 4:25 AM, Nitin Katiyar <
> nitin.katiyar at ericsson.com <mailto:nitin.katiyar at ericsson.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >     We also experienced degradation from OVS2.6/2.7 to OVS2.8.2(with
> DPDK17.05.02). The drop is more for 64 bytes packet size (~8-10%) even with
> higher number of flows. I tried OVS 2.8 with DPDK17.11 and it improved for
> higher packet sizes but 64 bytes size is still the concern.
> >
> >     Regards,
> >     Nitin
> >
> >     -----Original Message-----
> >     From: Ilya Maximets [mailto:i.maximets at samsung.com <mailto:
> i.maximets at samsung.com>]
> >     Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 1:32 PM
> >     To: ovs-dev at openvswitch.org <mailto:ovs-dev at openvswitch.org>;
> shahaji.bhosle at broadcom.com <mailto:shahaji.bhosle at broadcom.com>
> >     Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] 64Byte packet performance regression on 2.9
> from 2.7
> >
> >     CC: Shahaji Bhosle
> >
> >     Sorry, missed you in CC list.
> >
> >     Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
> >
> >     On 15.06.2018 10:44, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> >     >> Hi,
> >     >> I just upgraded from OvS 2.7 + DPDK 16.11 to OvS2.9 + DPDK 17.11
> and
> >     >> running into performance issue with 64 Byte packet rate. One
> >     >> interesting thing that I notice that even at very light load from
> >     >> IXIA the processing cycles on all the PMD threads run close to
> 100%
> >     >> of the cpu cycle on 2.9 OvS, but on OvS 2.7 even under full load
> the
> >     >> processing cycles remain at 75% of the cpu cycles.
> >     >>
> >     >> Attaching the FlameGraphs of both the versions, the only thing
> that
> >     >> pops out to me is the new way invoking netdev_send() is on 2.9 is
> >     >> being invoked via  dp_netdev_pmd_flush_output_packets() which
> seems
> >     >> to be adding another ~11% to the whole rx to tx path.
> >     >>
> >     >> I also did try the tx-flush-interval to 50 and more it does seem
> to
> >     >> help, but not significant enough to match the 2.7 performance.
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     >> Any help or ideas would be really great. Thanks, Shahaji
> >     >
> >     > Hello, Shahaji.
> >     > Could you, please, describe your testing scenario in more details?
> >     > Also, mail-list filters attachments, so they are not available. You
> >     > need to publish them somewhere else or write in text format inside
> the letter.
> >     >
> >     > About the performance itself: Some performance degradation because
> of
> >     > output batching is expected for tests with low number of flows or
> >     > simple PHY-PHY tests. It was mainly targeted for cases with
> relatively
> >     > large number of flows, for amortizing of vhost-user penalties
> >     > (PHY-VM-PHY, VM-VM cases), OVS bonding cases.
> >     >
> >     > If your test involves vhost-user ports, then you should also
> consider
> >     > vhost-user performance regression in stable DPDK 17.11 because of
> >     > fixes for CVE-2018-1059. Related bug:
> >     >       https://dpdk.org/tracker/show_bug.cgi?id=48 <
> https://dpdk.org/tracker/show_bug.cgi?id=48>
> >     >
> >     > It'll be good if you'll be able to test OVS 2.8 + DPDK 17.05. There
> >     > was too many changes since 2.7. It'll be hard to track down the
> root cause.
> >     >
> >     > Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
> >     >
> >
> >
>


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