On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 03:59:25AM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190951 > > Bug ID: 190951 > Summary: SoftRoCE Performance Puzzle > Product: Drivers > Version: 2.5 > Kernel Version: 4.9 > Hardware: All > OS: Linux > Tree: Mainline > Status: NEW > Severity: normal > Priority: P1 > Component: Infiniband/RDMA > Assignee: drivers_infiniband-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Reporter: songweijia@xxxxxxxxx > Regression: No > > Created attachment 248401 > --> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=248401&action=edit > SoftRoCE Performance with 10G ethernet > > I found the SoftRoCE throughput is much lower than TCP or UDP. I used two > high-end servers with Myricomm 10G dual port NIC. I ran a CentOS-7 virtual > machine in each of them. I upgraded the virtual machine kernel to the lastest > 4.9(2016-12-11) version: > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [weijia@srvm1 ~]$ uname -a > Linux srvm1 4.9.0 #1 SMP Fri Dec 16 16:35:46 EST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The two virtual machines use virtio nic driver so the network I/O over head is > very low. The iperf tool show ~9Gbps peak throughput with both TCP/UDP: > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [weijia@srvm1 ~]$ iperf3 -c 192.168.30.10 > Connecting to host 192.168.30.10, port 5201 > [ 4] local 192.168.29.10 port 59986 connected to 192.168.30.10 port 5201 > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr Cwnd > [ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 1.06 GBytes 9.12 Gbits/sec 3 1.28 MBytes > [ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 9.39 Gbits/sec 1 1.81 MBytes > [ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 1.06 GBytes 9.14 Gbits/sec 0 2.21 MBytes > [ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 9.36 Gbits/sec 0 2.56 MBytes > [ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 1.07 GBytes 9.15 Gbits/sec 0 2.85 MBytes > [ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 9.39 Gbits/sec 0 3.00 MBytes > [ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 1.07 GBytes 9.21 Gbits/sec 0 3.00 MBytes > [ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 9.39 Gbits/sec 0 3.00 MBytes > [ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 9.39 Gbits/sec 0 3.00 MBytes > [ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 9.38 Gbits/sec 0 3.00 MBytes > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr > [ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 10.8 GBytes 9.29 Gbits/sec 4 sender > [ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 10.8 GBytes 9.29 Gbits/sec receiver > > iperf Done. > > [weijia@srvm1 ~]$ iperf3 -c 192.168.30.10 -u -b 15000m > Connecting to host 192.168.30.10, port 5201 > [ 4] local 192.168.29.10 port 50826 connected to 192.168.30.10 port 5201 > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Total Datagrams > [ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 976 MBytes 8.19 Gbits/sec 124931 > [ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 1.00 GBytes 8.63 Gbits/sec 131657 > [ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 1.02 GBytes 8.75 Gbits/sec 133452 > [ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 1.05 GBytes 9.02 Gbits/sec 137581 > [ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 1.05 GBytes 9.02 Gbits/sec 137567 > [ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 1.02 GBytes 8.72 Gbits/sec 133102 > [ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 1.00 GBytes 8.61 Gbits/sec 131386 > [ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 994 MBytes 8.34 Gbits/sec 127229 > [ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 1.04 GBytes 8.94 Gbits/sec 136484 > [ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 839 MBytes 7.04 Gbits/sec 107376 > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Jitter Lost/Total > Datagrams > [ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 9.92 GBytes 8.52 Gbits/sec 0.005 ms 323914/1300764 > (25%) > [ 4] Sent 1300764 datagrams > > iperf Done. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Then I used ibv_rc_pingpong to test the bandwith between the two virtual > machines. The result is extremely low: > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [weijia@srvm1 ~]$ ibv_rc_pingpong -s 4096 -g 1 -n 1000000 192.168.30.10 > local address: LID 0x0000, QPN 0x000011, PSN 0x3072e0, GID > ::ffff:192.168.29.10 > remote address: LID 0x0000, QPN 0x000011, PSN 0xa54a62, GID > ::ffff:192.168.30.10 > 8192000000 bytes in 220.23 seconds = 297.58 Mbit/sec > 1000000 iters in 220.23 seconds = 220.23 usec/iter > [weijia@srvm1 ~]$ ibv_uc_pingpong -s 4096 -g 1 -n 10000 192.168.30.10 > local address: LID 0x0000, QPN 0x000011, PSN 0x7daab0, GID > ::ffff:192.168.29.10 > remote address: LID 0x0000, QPN 0x000011, PSN 0xdd96cf, GID > ::ffff:192.168.30.10 > 81920000 bytes in 67.86 seconds = 9.66 Mbit/sec > 10000 iters in 67.86 seconds = 6786.20 usec/iter > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Then I repeated the ibv_rc_pingpong experiments with different message sizes, > and tried both polling/event mode. And I also measured the CPU utilization of > the ibv_rc_pingpong process. The result is shown in the attached figure. 'poll' > means polling mode, where ibv_rc_pingpong is issued without '-e' option; while > 'int' (interrupt mode) represents the event mode with '-e' enabled. It seems > the CPU is saturated when SoftRoCE throughput goes up to ~2Gbit/s. This does > not make sense since udp and tcp can do much better. Could there be some > optimization for SoftRoCE implementation? > > ibv_devinfo information: > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [weijia@srvm1 ~]$ ibv_devinfo > hca_id: rxe0 > transport: InfiniBand (0) > fw_ver: 0.0.0 > node_guid: 5054:00ff:fe4b:d859 > sys_image_guid: 0000:0000:0000:0000 > vendor_id: 0x0000 > vendor_part_id: 0 > hw_ver: 0x0 > phys_port_cnt: 1 > port: 1 > state: PORT_ACTIVE (4) > max_mtu: 4096 (5) > active_mtu: 1024 (3) > sm_lid: 0 > port_lid: 0 > port_lmc: 0x00 > link_layer: Ethernet > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for taking look on it, We are working to fix the issue. Right now, Yonatan is working to add various counters to better instrument SoftRoCE. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You are watching the assignee of the bug. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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