Re: Flow Control and Port Mirroring Revisited

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On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:23:58AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:38:01PM -0500, Jesse Gross wrote:
> 
> [ snip ]
> > 
> > I know that everyone likes a nice netperf result but I agree with
> > Michael that this probably isn't the right question to be asking.  I
> > don't think that socket buffers are a real solution to the flow
> > control problem: they happen to provide that functionality but it's
> > more of a side effect than anything.  It's just that the amount of
> > memory consumed by packets in the queue(s) doesn't really have any
> > implicit meaning for flow control (think multiple physical adapters,
> > all with the same speed instead of a virtual device and a physical
> > device with wildly different speeds).  The analog in the physical
> > world that you're looking for would be Ethernet flow control.
> > Obviously, if the question is limiting CPU or memory consumption then
> > that's a different story.
> 
> Point taken. I will see if I can control CPU (and thus memory) consumption
> using cgroups and/or tc.

I have found that I can successfully control the throughput using
the following techniques

1) Place a tc egress filter on dummy0

2) Use ovs-ofctl to add a flow that sends skbs to dummy0 and then eth1,
   this is effectively the same as one of my hacks to the datapath
   that I mentioned in an earlier mail. The result is that eth1
   "paces" the connection.

3) 2) + place a tc egress filter on eth1

Which mostly makes sense to me although I am a little confused about
why 1) needs a filter on dummy0 (a filter on eth1 has no effect)
but 3) needs a filter on eth1 (a filter on dummy0 has no effect,
even if the skb is sent to dummy0 last.

I also had some limited success using CPU cgroups, though obviously
that targets CPU usage and thus the effect on throughput is fairly course.
In short, its a useful technique but not one that bares further
discussion here.

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