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Summary

iflib-enabled ixgbe driver update heavily influenced by sbruno and mmacy's work on D5213.

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Compile-tested with minimal touch-testing for the PF driver (none for VF). Respectfully request waiting for Jeff's team to perform a validation pass before committing.

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I might be missing something, but that was what I modified before our Thursday morning meeting. It should be using the isc_n[rt]xqsets_max members now.

  • Incorporated more of sbruno's suggestions for D11727 review.

Regarding the redefinition of CSUM_TCP/etc., I see what Matt was doing in terms of having these defines mean something more than just a renaming of some other macro. And I like the intention of this; it mimics what the CSUM_TSO macro does. However, I removed those undef/defines from ix_txrx.c in favor of explicitly using, for example, "(CSUM_IP_TCP | CSUM_IP6_TCP)". Those lines still fit in 80 columns. :)

I've tested 82599ES in single and LAGG configurations. This all seems good to me.

I'm moving on to test with X550-T2. I have no easy way to test VFs, so that'll need to be exercised.

I've tested 82599ES in single and LAGG configurations. This all seems good to me.

I'm moving on to test with X550-T2. I have no easy way to test VFs, so that'll need to be exercised.

Did you check RSS? Using the default 32 rx queues, rx_bytes and rx_packets only increment on queues 0-15 with 100 threads of TCP traffic.

This revision now requires changes to proceed.Aug 1 2017, 9:23 PM

Also seeing panics at detach after passing traffic.

About 30% performance drop regression (from 2.8Mpps to 1.8Mpps) during forwarding of smallest packet:

x r322489, packets-per-seconds
+ r322489 with D11727, packets-per-seconds
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|     +                                                                    |
|     +                                                                 x  |
|    ++                  +                                            xxx x|
|                                                                     |_A| |
||____M__A________|                                                        |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x   5     2828732.5     2886374.5       2856519     2855953.4     20817.191
+   5       1883367       2165891       1890597     1944843.5     123630.95
Difference at 95.0% confidence
        -911110 +/- 129292
        -31.9021% +/- 4.49352%
        (Student's t, pooled s = 88650.9)
cramerj_intel.com edited edge metadata.
  • Re-commit patches on top of commit from review D11712
  • Move the stats updates to the admin update task.
  • Removed setup_optics since it isn't useful code.
  • Moved check for link from the timer context to the admin task.
  • Changed iflib member for setting number of Tx/Rx queues in PF driver.
  • Incorporated more of sbruno's suggestions for D11727 review.
  • Removed SR-IOV code from the VF driver.
  • Fixed dmac sysctl reporting negative value due to incompatible type.
  • Adjusted other sysctl functions to use the correct handler function.
  • Moved ixgbe_if_init() declaration into ixgbe_sriov.h since both if_ix.c and if_sriov.c include that header file and it's no longer declared for the VF driver that can't link to it anyway.

Rebase due to out-of-band commit to HEAD.

  • Allow for VLAN filtering in VFs by re-adding capability flag.
  • Add function prototype for ixgbe_tx_ctx_setup() to fix compilation error.

Move ixgbe_if_init() function declaration outside of #ifdef PCI_IOV block as PCI_IOV might be not defined when compiling driver.

  • Rebased on top of D12496
  • Prevent attach to complete if legacy interrupts are configured

on devices which do not support this mode.

sbruno requested changes to this revision.Oct 31 2017, 5:29 AM

I found pretty bad behavior with LRO enabled on this change.

In a two system configuration, both systems using 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ back to back, lower number of connections (running iperf3) will go much slower. Disabling LRO (ifconfig ix0 -lro) on the receiver works around this problem at this time:

root@syssw07:~ # iperf3 -c 192.168.100.101 -P4 -i60
Connecting to host 192.168.100.101, port 5201
[  5] local 192.168.100.100 port 21018 connected to 192.168.100.101 port 5201
[  7] local 192.168.100.100 port 34156 connected to 192.168.100.101 port 5201
[  9] local 192.168.100.100 port 42857 connected to 192.168.100.101 port 5201
[ 11] local 192.168.100.100 port 22922 connected to 192.168.100.101 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   313 MBytes   262 Mbits/sec  182   8.75 KBytes       
[  7]   0.00-10.00  sec   346 MBytes   290 Mbits/sec  383   8.75 KBytes       
[  9]   0.00-10.00  sec   211 MBytes   177 Mbits/sec  252   8.75 KBytes       
[ 11]   0.00-10.00  sec   318 MBytes   266 Mbits/sec  172   8.75 KBytes       
[SUM]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.16 GBytes   995 Mbits/sec  989             
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   313 MBytes   262 Mbits/sec  182             sender
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   312 MBytes   262 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[  7]   0.00-10.00  sec   346 MBytes   290 Mbits/sec  383             sender
[  7]   0.00-10.00  sec   345 MBytes   290 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[  9]   0.00-10.00  sec   211 MBytes   177 Mbits/sec  252             sender
[  9]   0.00-10.00  sec   211 MBytes   177 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[ 11]   0.00-10.00  sec   318 MBytes   266 Mbits/sec  172             sender
[ 11]   0.00-10.00  sec   317 MBytes   266 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[SUM]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.16 GBytes   995 Mbits/sec  989             sender
[SUM]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.16 GBytes   994 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done

VS an 8 connection test

root@syssw07:~ # iperf3 -c 192.168.100.101 -P8 -i60
Connecting to host 192.168.100.101, port 5201
[  5] local 192.168.100.100 port 65287 connected to 192.168.100.101 port 5201
[  7] local 192.168.100.100 port 51272 connected to 192.168.100.101 port 5201
[  9] local 192.168.100.100 port 56056 connected to 192.168.100.101 port 5201
[ 11] local 192.168.100.100 port 10030 connected to 192.168.100.101 port 5201
[ 13] local 192.168.100.100 port 45967 connected to 192.168.100.101 port 5201
[ 15] local 192.168.100.100 port 56170 connected to 192.168.100.101 port 5201
[ 17] local 192.168.100.100 port 10231 connected to 192.168.100.101 port 5201
[ 19] local 192.168.100.100 port 33270 connected to 192.168.100.101 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.43 GBytes  1.23 Gbits/sec    0   1.78 MBytes       
[  7]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.45 GBytes  1.24 Gbits/sec    0   1.77 MBytes       
[  9]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.41 GBytes  1.21 Gbits/sec   11   1.09 MBytes       
[ 11]   0.00-10.00  sec  2.83 GBytes  2.43 Gbits/sec   22   1.34 MBytes       
[ 13]   0.00-10.00  sec   984 MBytes   826 Mbits/sec    0   1.78 MBytes       
[ 15]   0.00-10.00  sec   979 MBytes   821 Mbits/sec    0   1.78 MBytes       
[ 17]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.43 GBytes  1.23 Gbits/sec    0   1.77 MBytes       
[ 19]   0.00-10.00  sec   975 MBytes   818 Mbits/sec    0   1.78 MBytes       
[SUM]   0.00-10.00  sec  11.4 GBytes  9.81 Gbits/sec   33             
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.43 GBytes  1.23 Gbits/sec    0             sender
[  5]   0.00-10.01  sec  1.43 GBytes  1.23 Gbits/sec                  receiver
[  7]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.45 GBytes  1.24 Gbits/sec    0             sender
[  7]   0.00-10.01  sec  1.45 GBytes  1.24 Gbits/sec                  receiver
[  9]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.41 GBytes  1.21 Gbits/sec   11             sender
[  9]   0.00-10.01  sec  1.41 GBytes  1.21 Gbits/sec                  receiver
[ 11]   0.00-10.00  sec  2.83 GBytes  2.43 Gbits/sec   22             sender
[ 11]   0.00-10.01  sec  2.83 GBytes  2.43 Gbits/sec                  receiver
[ 13]   0.00-10.00  sec   984 MBytes   826 Mbits/sec    0             sender
[ 13]   0.00-10.01  sec   983 MBytes   824 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[ 15]   0.00-10.00  sec   979 MBytes   821 Mbits/sec    0             sender
[ 15]   0.00-10.01  sec   978 MBytes   820 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[ 17]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.43 GBytes  1.23 Gbits/sec    0             sender
[ 17]   0.00-10.01  sec  1.43 GBytes  1.22 Gbits/sec                  receiver
[ 19]   0.00-10.00  sec   975 MBytes   818 Mbits/sec    0             sender
[ 19]   0.00-10.01  sec   974 MBytes   816 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[SUM]   0.00-10.00  sec  11.4 GBytes  9.81 Gbits/sec   33             sender
[SUM]   0.00-10.01  sec  11.4 GBytes  9.80 Gbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.
This revision now requires changes to proceed.Oct 31 2017, 5:29 AM
  • Fix support for ifconfig's vlanhwtag flag.

Disabling this flag will now prevent the driver from stripping vlan tags from packets.

sbruno requested changes to this revision.Oct 31 2017, 5:38 PM

Ok, my report is due to the test systems disabling AIM in sysctl.conf.

At this point, AIM should be purged from the iflib version of ixgbe(4).

This revision now requires changes to proceed.Oct 31 2017, 5:38 PM
sys/dev/ixgbe/if_ix.c
3806

Is this function even used now? I seem to see no references to it in code and the freebsd compile bails out.

I've tried to update my previous benches, but on a recent head (r325618), and this review need to be updated because it no more apply (a small part was committed into head).
And compilation failed on this recent head too:

--- if_ixv.o ---
/src/sys/dev/ixgbe/if_ixv.c:1916:1: warning: unused function 'ixv_set_sysctl_value' [-Wunused-functio
n]
ixv_set_sysctl_value(struct adapter *adapter, const char *name,
(...)
--- if_ix.o ---
/src/sys/dev/ixgbe/if_ix.c:1850:28: error: no member named 'num_queues' in 'struct adapter'
                for (i = 0; i < adapter->num_queues; i++) {
                                ~~~~~~~  ^
/src/sys/dev/ixgbe/if_ix.c:1851:20: error: no member named 'rx_rings' in 'struct adapter'
                        rxr = &adapter->rx_rings[i];
                               ~~~~~~~  ^
  • Remove set_sysctl_value(), AIM and operations on IXGBE_RXCSUM in VF

Remove ixgbe_set_sysctl_value() and AIM code from ixgbe (done by Sean Bruno).

Remove read and write operations on register IXGBE_RXCSUM in VF.
VF has no access to IXGBE_RXCSUM register. Read or write operations on this register were causing kernel panic.

Here are my updated benches "forwarding smallest packet size" results on 2 different hardware.
I'm using a fresh head (r325763) and the latest diff (35190) of this review.

First, on a 8 core Atom and Intel 82599ES 10-Gigabit

x head r325763: inet4 packets-per-second
+ head r325763 with D11727: inet4 packets-per-second
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|          +                                                               |
|+ +       +   +                                        x x  x          x x|
|                                                       |____M__A_______|  |
| |_____A__M__|                                                            |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x   5       2885856       2937099     2899727.5     2908672.7     23606.055
+   5       2728207       2768623       2757406       2748964     17584.618
Difference at 95.0% confidence
        -159709 +/- 30356.4
        -5.49078% +/- 1.00717%
        (Student's t, pooled s = 20814.2)

Second, on a Dual CPU, Xeon_E5-2650 (12Cores), with Intel 82599ES 10Gigabit (using default 8 queues):

x head r325763: inet4 packets-per-second
+ head r325763 with D11727: inet4 packets-per-second
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|++ ++ +                                                              x xxx|
|                                                                      |AM||
| |_A_|                                                                    |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x   5       4916319       5003793       4989624       4976294     36329.238
+   5       3244804       3392974       3312977     3314548.8     56867.158
Difference at 95.0% confidence
        -1.66175e+06 +/- 69591.5
        -33.3932% +/- 1.28076%
        (Student's t, pooled s = 47716.3)

@olivier So a decrease of ~33% with IFLIB?

@olivier Can you post the sysctl/loader.conf settings you are using from both iterations of the test?

@olivier So a decrease of ~33% with IFLIB?

Yes

@olivier Can you post the sysctl/loader.conf settings you are using from both iterations of the test?

Sure, here is the /boot/loader.conf:

### Use next-gen MRSAS drivers in place of MFI for device supporting it
# This solve lot's of [mfi] COMMAND 0x... TIMEOUT AFTER ## SECONDS
hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1"

net.fibs="16"           # Numbers of FIB
hw.usb.no_pf="1"        # Disable USB packet filtering

# Disable HyperThreading (no benefit on a router)
# https://bsdrp.net/documentation/technical_docs/performance#disabling_hyper_threading
machdep.hyperthreading_allowed="0"

# Don't limit the maximum of number of received packets to process at a time
hw.ix.rx_process_limit="-1"
# Allow unsupported SFP
hw.ix.unsupported_sfp="1"
hw.ix.allow_unsupported_sfp="1"

# Avoid message netisr_register: epair requested queue limit 430080 capped to net.isr.maxqlimit 1024
net.isr.maxqlimit=430080

and /etc/sysctl.conf:

# Do not generate core file
kern.coredump=0
#Power save: Disable power fo

And the specifics stuff into the /etc/rc.conf (TSO & LRO disabled):

ifconfig_ix0="inet 198.18.0.12/24 -tso4 -tso6 -lro -vlanhwtso"
ifconfig_ix1="inet 198.19.0.12/24 -tso4 -tso6 -lro -vlanhwtso"
# Disable INTERRUPT and NET_ETHER from entropy sources
harvest_mask="351"

Do you want the flamegraph of these benches too ?

Second, on a Dual CPU, Xeon_E5-2650 (12Cores), with Intel 82599ES 10Gigabit (using default 8 queues):

Hrm... is that two E5-2651s for 24 cores total, or two 6-core E5s for 12 cores total?

Second, on a Dual CPU, Xeon_E5-2650 (12Cores), with Intel 82599ES 10Gigabit (using default 8 queues):

Hrm... is that two E5-2651s for 24 cores total, or two 6-core E5s for 12 cores total?

Yes: there are 2 CPU, with 12 cores each (HT is disabled), and by default the ixgbe drivers is using a maximum of 8 MSIX queues (I've kept the default because I don't want to fall into the NUMA trap).

@oliver out of curiosity can you boot it with a KERNCONF with options MAXCPU=12

Second, on a Dual CPU, Xeon_E5-2650 (12Cores), with Intel 82599ES 10Gigabit (using default 8 queues):

Hrm... is that two E5-2651s for 24 cores total, or two 6-core E5s for 12 cores total?

Yes: there are 2 CPU, with 12 cores each (HT is disabled), and by default the ixgbe drivers is using a maximum of 8 MSIX queues (I've kept the default because I don't want to fall into the NUMA trap).

Are you sure about the number of queues? For iflib version of driver the default number is based on number of cores. Are you setting dev.ix.X.override_n(r|t)xqs sysctls?

Are you sure about the number of queues? For iflib version of driver the default number is based on number of cores. Are you setting dev.ix.X.override_n(r|t)xqs sysctls?

Let me check on my /var/run/dmesg:

FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 24 CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 12 core(s) x 2 hardware threads
FreeBSD/SMP Online: 2 package(s) x 12 core(s)
(...)
ix0: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver> port 0x2020-0x203f mem 0x91d00000-0x91dfffff,0x91e04000-0x91e07fff irq 44 at device 0.0 numa-domain 0 on pci5
ix0: using 2048 tx descriptors and 2048 rx descriptors
ix0: msix_init qsets capped at 32
ix0: pxm cpus: 12 queue msgs: 63 admincnt: 1
ix0: using 24 rx queues 24 tx queues
ix0: Using MSIX interrupts with 25 vectors
ix0: allocated for 24 queues
ix0: allocated for 24 rx queues
ix0: Ethernet address: 24:6e:96:5b:92:80
ix0: PCI Express Bus: Speed 5.0GT/s Width x8
ix0: netmap queues/slots: TX 24/2048, RX 24/2048

And vmstat is agrea too:

[root@r630]~# vmstat -ai | grep ix0
irq288: ix0:rxq0                  303008         12
irq289: ix0:rxq1                   60786          2
irq290: ix0:rxq2                  172906          7
irq291: ix0:rxq3                   13460          1
irq292: ix0:rxq4                 2479751        101
irq293: ix0:rxq5                 2390323         97
irq294: ix0:rxq6                 2030967         82
irq295: ix0:rxq7                 1917268         78
irq296: ix0:rxq8                 3642724        148
irq297: ix0:rxq9                 3612677        146
irq298: ix0:rxq10                3625123        147
irq299: ix0:rxq11                3617915        147
irq300: ix0:rxq12                1363843         55
irq301: ix0:rxq13                1346608         55
irq302: ix0:rxq14                1760021         71
irq303: ix0:rxq15                2232016         90
irq304: ix0:rxq16                      0          0
irq305: ix0:rxq17                      0          0
irq306: ix0:rxq18                      0          0
irq307: ix0:rxq19                      0          0
irq308: ix0:rxq20                      0          0
irq309: ix0:rxq21                      0          0
irq310: ix0:rxq22                      0          0
irq311: ix0:rxq23                      0          0
irq312: ix0:aq                         2          0

oops, you've right… it uses all the 24 cores :-(
Notice that I'm using 2000 UDP flows (20 sources IP and 100 destinations IP), and queues 16 to 23 seems not used.

Then should I force it to use only 12 queues for my use case for avoiding NUMA mess ?

We're seeing instability on X520-QDA1 (QSFP+):

  1. Occasionally, ifconfig will report "ifconfig: ix0: no media types?" message instead of the media type.
  2. System will "partially" hang on kldunload after the interface has been configured. After this occurs, you can ssh into the system through another interface and the FS is accessible, but ifconfig, top etc. are hung.
This revision now requires changes to proceed.Nov 14 2017, 4:40 PM

Are you sure about the number of queues? For iflib version of driver the default number is based on number of cores. Are you setting dev.ix.X.override_n(r|t)xqs sysctls?

oops, you've right… it uses all the 24 cores :-(
Notice that I'm using 2000 UDP flows (20 sources IP and 100 destinations IP), and queues 16 to 23 seems not used.

Then should I force it to use only 12 queues for my use case for avoiding NUMA mess ?

Can you try adding D12446 on top of this?

Are you sure about the number of queues? For iflib version of driver the default number is based on number of cores. Are you setting dev.ix.X.override_n(r|t)xqs sysctls?

Let me check on my /var/run/dmesg:

ix0: msix_init qsets capped at 32
ix0: pxm cpus: 12 queue msgs: 63 admincnt: 1
ix0: using 24 rx queues 24 tx queues

oops, you've right… it uses all the 24 cores :-(
Notice that I'm using 2000 UDP flows (20 sources IP and 100 destinations IP), and queues 16 to 23 seems not used.

Then should I force it to use only 12 queues for my use case for avoiding NUMA mess ?

Created D13096 to fix the overallocation of queues. However, even with 24 queues, there should have been two per core (one per thread with HTT), not one per core across the two sockets.

Created D13096 to fix the overallocation of queues. However, even with 24 queues, there should have been two per core (one per thread with HTT), not one per core across the two sockets.

with D13096 I've got only 12 queues assigned, no more NUMA mess :-)

ix0: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver> port 0x2020-0x203f mem 0x91d00000-0x91dfffff,0x91e04000-0x91e07fff irq 44 at device 0.0 numa-domain 0 on pci5
ix0: using 2048 tx descriptors and 2048 rx descriptors
ix0: msix_init qsets capped at 32
ix0: pxm cpus: 12 queue msgs: 63 admincnt: 1
ix0: using 12 rx queues 12 tx queues
ix0: Using MSIX interrupts with 13 vectors
ix0: allocated for 12 queues
ix0: allocated for 12 rx queues
ix0: Ethernet address: 24:6e:96:5b:92:80
ix0: PCI Express Bus: Speed 5.0GT/s Width x8
ix0: netmap queues/slots: TX 12/2048, RX 12/2048

But queue seems not bound to core (they jump to other cores, creating large standard derivation on the bench result), then I had to use an affinity script for best benefit:

[root@r630]~# service ix_affinity onestart
Bind ix0 IRQ 288 to CPU 0
Bind ix0 IRQ 289 to CPU 1
Bind ix0 IRQ 290 to CPU 2
Bind ix0 IRQ 291 to CPU 3
Bind ix0 IRQ 292 to CPU 4
Bind ix0 IRQ 293 to CPU 5
Bind ix0 IRQ 294 to CPU 6
Bind ix0 IRQ 295 to CPU 7
Bind ix0 IRQ 296 to CPU 8
Bind ix0 IRQ 297 to CPU 9
Bind ix0 IRQ 298 to CPU 10
Bind ix0 IRQ 299 to CPU 11
Bind ix1 IRQ 301 to CPU 0
Bind ix1 IRQ 302 to CPU 1
Bind ix1 IRQ 303 to CPU 2
Bind ix1 IRQ 304 to CPU 3
Bind ix1 IRQ 305 to CPU 4
Bind ix1 IRQ 306 to CPU 5
Bind ix1 IRQ 307 to CPU 6
Bind ix1 IRQ 308 to CPU 7
Bind ix1 IRQ 309 to CPU 8
Bind ix1 IRQ 310 to CPU 9
Bind ix1 IRQ 311 to CPU 10
Bind ix1 IRQ 312 to CPU 11

The new bench results are now this one:

x head r325763: inet4 packets-per-second
+ head r325763 with D11727: inet4 packets-per-second
* head r325763 with D11727 and D13096 : inet4 packets-per-second
% head r325763 with D11727 and D13096 and irq/cpu affinity script : inet4 packets-per-second
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                       %                  |
|*                       ++++              %         % %O **     *x x      |
|                                                                |A|       |
|                        |AM                                               |
|                    |__________________________A_________M_______________||
|                                              |_____A_M__|                |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x   5       4928969       5055535       4972662     4982311.4     46150.706
+   5       3294637       3409112       3362706       3355796     41123.949
Difference at 95.0% confidence
        -1.62652e+06 +/- 63748
        -32.6458% +/- 1.06702%
        (Student's t, pooled s = 43709.6)
*   5       2304760       4947464       4651496     4233081.8       1086987
No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
%   5       4020134       4596013       4547350     4433036.8     238408.52
Difference at 95.0% confidence
        -549275 +/- 250429
        -11.0245% +/- 5.00741%
        (Student's t, pooled s = 171710)

-> Only -11% of performance drop with D11727 + D13096 + affinity forced

  • Add patch for interrupt storm on quad-port adapter

Patch created by Chris Galazka.

with D13096 I've got only 12 queues assigned, no more NUMA mess :-)

ix0: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver> port 0x2020-0x203f mem 0x91d00000-0x91dfffff,0x91e04000-0x91e07fff irq 44 at device 0.0 numa-domain 0 on pci5
ix0: using 2048 tx descriptors and 2048 rx descriptors
ix0: msix_init qsets capped at 32
ix0: pxm cpus: 12 queue msgs: 63 admincnt: 1
ix0: using 12 rx queues 12 tx queues
ix0: Using MSIX interrupts with 13 vectors
ix0: allocated for 12 queues
ix0: allocated for 12 rx queues
ix0: Ethernet address: 24:6e:96:5b:92:80
ix0: PCI Express Bus: Speed 5.0GT/s Width x8
ix0: netmap queues/slots: TX 12/2048, RX 12/2048

But queue seems not bound to core (they jump to other cores, creating large standard derivation on the bench result), then I had to use an affinity script for best benefit:

Hrm, I would have expected some affinity-related errors in the dmesg in this case. I've updated D12446 to HEAD, and it may help with the affinity issues (or it may log errors pointing to the issue).

  • Add fix for patch for interrupt storm on quad-port adapter
  • Rebased on top of HEAD
  • ixgbe(4): Set proper max number of queues.

Validation completed successfully.

sbruno requested changes to this revision.Dec 14 2017, 6:17 PM

Adding a temporary block until Monday to give us time to do live fire tests in production.

This revision now requires changes to proceed.Dec 14 2017, 6:17 PM

Blocking on D12446 which should committed soon.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Dec 19 2017, 10:28 PM
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Committed in rS327031.