[ovs-dev] 10-25 packet drops every few (10-50) seconds TCP (iperf3)
Flavio Leitner
fbl at sysclose.org
Tue Jun 30 13:45:43 UTC 2020
On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 12:56:51PM -0700, Vinay Gupta wrote:
> Hi Flavio,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
> I have captured the suggested information but do not see anything that
> could cause the packet drops.
> Can you please take a look at the below data and see if you can find
> something unusual ?
> The PMDs are running on CPU 1,2,3,4 and CPU 1-7 are isolated cores.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> root at bcm958802a8046c:~# cstats ; sleep 10; cycles
> pmd thread numa_id 0 core_id 1:
> idle cycles: 99140849 (7.93%)
> processing cycles: 1151423715 (92.07%)
> avg cycles per packet: 116.94 (1250564564/10693918)
> avg processing cycles per packet: 107.67 (1151423715/10693918)
> pmd thread numa_id 0 core_id 2:
> idle cycles: 118373662 (9.47%)
> processing cycles: 1132193442 (90.53%)
> avg cycles per packet: 124.39 (1250567104/10053309)
> avg processing cycles per packet: 112.62 (1132193442/10053309)
> pmd thread numa_id 0 core_id 3:
> idle cycles: 53805933 (4.30%)
> processing cycles: 1196762002 (95.70%)
> avg cycles per packet: 107.35 (1250567935/11649948)
> avg processing cycles per packet: 102.73 (1196762002/11649948)
> pmd thread numa_id 0 core_id 4:
> idle cycles: 189102938 (15.12%)
> processing cycles: 1061463293 (84.88%)
> avg cycles per packet: 143.47 (1250566231/8716828)
> avg processing cycles per packet: 121.77 (1061463293/8716828)
> pmd thread numa_id 0 core_id 5:
> pmd thread numa_id 0 core_id 6:
> pmd thread numa_id 0 core_id 7:
The core_id 3 is high loaded, and then it's more likely to show
the drop issue when some other event happens.
I think you need to run perf as I recommended before and see if
there are context switches happening and why they are happening.
If a context switch happens, it's either because the core is not
well isolated or some other thing is going on. It will help to
understand why the queue wasn't serviced for a certain amount of
time.
The issue is that running perf might introduce some load, so you
will need adjust the traffic rate accordingly.
HTH,
fbl
>
>
> *Runtime summary* comm parent sched-in
> run-time min-run avg-run max-run stddev migrations
> (count) (msec) (msec)
> (msec) (msec) %
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ksoftirqd/0[7] 2 1 0.079 0.079
> 0.079 0.079 0.00 0
> rcu_sched[8] 2 14 0.067 0.002
> 0.004 0.009 9.96 0
> rcuos/4[38] 2 6 0.027 0.002
> 0.004 0.008 20.97 0
> rcuos/5[45] 2 4 0.018 0.004
> 0.004 0.005 6.63 0
> kworker/0:1[71] 2 12 0.156 0.008
> 0.013 0.019 6.72 0
> mmcqd/0[1230] 2 3 0.054 0.001
> 0.018 0.031 47.29 0
> kworker/0:1H[1248] 2 1 0.006 0.006
> 0.006 0.006 0.00 0
> kworker/u16:2[1547] 2 16 0.045 0.001
> 0.002 0.012 26.19 0
> ntpd[5282] 1 1 0.063 0.063
> 0.063 0.063 0.00 0
> watchdog[6988] 1 2 0.089 0.012
> 0.044 0.076 72.26 0
> ovs-vswitchd[9239] 1 2 0.326 0.152
> 0.163 0.173 6.45 0
> revalidator8[9309/9239] 9239 2 1.260 0.607
> 0.630 0.652 3.58 0
> perf[27150] 27140 1 0.000 0.000
> 0.000 0.000 0.00 0
>
> Terminated tasks:
> sleep[27151] 27150 4 1.002 0.015
> 0.250 0.677 58.22 0
>
> Idle stats:
> CPU 0 idle for 999.814 msec ( 99.84%)
>
>
>
> *CPU 1 idle entire time window CPU 2 idle entire time window CPU 3
> idle entire time window CPU 4 idle entire time window*
> CPU 5 idle for 500.326 msec ( 49.96%)
> CPU 6 idle entire time window
> CPU 7 idle entire time window
>
> Total number of unique tasks: 14
> Total number of context switches: 115
> Total run time (msec): 3.198
> Total scheduling time (msec): 1001.425 (x 8)
> (END)
>
>
>
> *02:16:22 UID TGID TID %usr %system %guest %wait
> %CPU CPU Command *02:16:23 0 9239 - 100.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 100.00 5 ovs-vswitchd
> 02:16:23 0 - 9239 2.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 2.00 5 |__ovs-vswitchd
> 02:16:23 0 - 9240 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0 |__vfio-sync
> 02:16:23 0 - 9241 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 5 |__eal-intr-thread
> 02:16:23 0 - 9242 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 5 |__dpdk_watchdog1
> 02:16:23 0 - 9244 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 5 |__urcu2
> 02:16:23 0 - 9279 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 5 |__ct_clean3
> 02:16:23 0 - 9308 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 5 |__handler9
> 02:16:23 0 - 9309 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 5 |__revalidator8
> 02:16:23 0 - 9328 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 6 |__pmd13
> 02:16:23 0 - 9330 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 100.00 3 |__pmd12
> 02:16:23 0 - 9331 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 100.00 1 |__pmd11
> 02:16:23 0 - 9332 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 7 |__pmd10
> 02:16:23 0 - 9333 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 5 |__pmd16
> 02:16:23 0 - 9334 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 100.00 2 |__pmd15
> 02:16:23 0 - 9335 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 100.00 4 |__pmd14
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks
> Vinay
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:06 PM Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 07:27:09PM -0400, Shahaji Bhosle via dev wrote:
> > > Hi Ben/Ilya,
> > > Hope you guys are doing well and staying safe. I have been chasing a
> > weird
> > > problem with small drops and I think that is causing lots of TCP
> > > retransmission.
> > >
> > > Setup details
> > > iPerf3(1k-5K
> > > Servers)<--DPDK2:OvS+DPDK(VxLAN:BOND)[DPDK0+DPDK1)<====2x25G<====
> > > [DPDK0+DPDK1)(VxLAN:BOND)OVS+DPDKDPDK2<---iPerf3(Clients)
> > >
> > > All the Drops are ring drops on BONDed functions on the server side. I
> > > have 4 CPUs each with 3PMD threads, DPDK0, DPDK1 and DPDK2 all running
> > with
> > > 4 Rx rings each.
> > >
> > > What is interesting is when I give each Rx rings its own CPU the drops go
> > > away. Or if I set cother_config:emc-insert-inv-prob=1 the drops go away.
> > > But I need to scale up the number of flows so trying to run this with EMC
> > > disabled.
> > >
> > > I can tell that the rings are not getting serviced for 30-40usec because
> > of
> > > some kind context switch or interrupts on these cores. I have tried to do
> > > the usual isolation, nohz_full rcu_nocbs etc. Move all the interrupts
> > away
> > > from these cores etc. But nothing helps. I mean it improves, but the
> > drops
> > > still happen.
> >
> > When you disable the EMC (or reduce its efficiency) the per packet cost
> > increases, then it becomes more sensitive to variations. If you share
> > a CPU with multiple queues, you decrease the amount of time available
> > to process the queue. In either case, there will be less room to tolerate
> > variations.
> >
> > Well, you might want to use 'perf' and monitor for the scheduling events
> > and then based on the stack trace see what is causing it and try to
> > prevent it.
> >
> > For example:
> > # perf record -e sched:sched_switch -a -g sleep 1
> >
> > For instance, you might see that another NIC used for management has
> > IRQs assigned to one isolated CPU. You can move it to another CPU to
> > reduce the noise, etc...
> >
> > Another suggestion is look at PMD thread idle statistics because it
> > will tell you how much "extra" room you have left. As it approaches
> > to 0, more fine tuned your setup needs to be to avoid drops.
> >
> > HTH,
> > --
> > fbl
> >
--
fbl
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