Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:56:28 +0100 | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Subject | Re: questions on NAPI processing latency and dropped network packets |
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Chris Friesen a écrit : > Ray Lee wrote: >> On Jan 10, 2008 9:24 AM, Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote: > >>> After a recent userspace app change, we've started seeing packets being >>> dropped by the ethernet hardware (e1000, NAPI is enabled). The >>> error/dropped/fifo counts are going up in ethtool: > >> Can you reproduce it with a simple userspace cpu hog? (Two, really, >> one per cpu.) >> Can you reproduce it with the newer e1000? > > Hmm...good questions and I haven't checked either. The first one is > relatively straightforward. The second is a bit trickier...last time > I tried the latest e1000 driver the card wouldn't boot (we use netboot). > >> Can you reproduce it with git head? > > Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to try this. We require > kernel mods for our userspace to run, and I doubt I'd be able to get > the time to port all the changes forward to git head. > >> If the answer to the first one is yes, the last no, then bisect until >> you get a kernel that doesn't show the problem. Backport the fix, >> unless the fix happens to be CFS. However, I suspect that your >> userpace app is just starving the system from time to time. > > It's conceivable that userspace is starving the kernel, but we have do > about 45% idle on one cpu, and 7-10% idle on the other. > > We also have an odd situation where on an initial test run after > bootup we have 18-24% idle on cpu1, but resetting the test tool drops > that to the 7-10% I mentioned above. > > Based on profiling and instrumentation it seems like the cost of > sctp_endpoint_lookup_assoc() more than triples, which means that the > amount of time that bottom halves are disabled in that function also > triples. Any idea of the size of sctp hash size you have ? (your dmesg probably includes a message starting with SCTP: Hash tables configured...
How many concurrent sctp sockets are handled ?
Maybe sctp_assoc_hashfn() is too weak for your use, and some chains are *really* long.
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