Re: [question]Why our soft-RoCE throughput is quite low compared with TCP

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On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 06:13:07PM +0800, wangqi wrote:
>
> On 2019/11/18 下午5:49, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 02:38:19PM +0800, wangqi wrote:
> >> On 2019/11/16 上午12:07, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 09:26:41PM +0800, QWang wrote:
> >>>> Dear experts on RDMA,
> >>>>       We are sorry to disturb you. Because of a project, we need to
> >>>> integrate soft-RoCE in our system. However ,we are very confused by our
> >>>> soft-RoCE throughput results, which are quite low compared with TCP
> >>>> throughput. The throughput of soft-RoCE in our tests measured by ib_send_bw
> >>>> and ib_read_bw is only 2 Gbps (the net link bandwidth is 100 Gbps and the
> >>>> two Xeon E5 servers with Mellanox ConnectX-4 cards are connected via
> >>>> back-to-back, the OS is ubuntu16.04 with kernel 4.15.0-041500-generic). The
> >>>> throughput of hard-RoCE and TCP are normal, which are 100 Gbps and 20 Gbps,
> >>>> respectively. But in the figure 6 in the attached paper "A Performance
> >>>> Comparison of Container Networking Alternatives", the throughput of
> >>>> soft-RoCE can be up to 23 Gbps.  In our tests, we get the open-source
> >>>> soft-RoCE from github in https://github.com/linux-rdma. Do you know how can
> >>>> we get such high bandwidth? Do we need to configure some OS system settings?
> >>>>       We find that in 2017, someone finds the same problem and he posts all
> >>>> his detailed results on https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190951  ;
> >>>> . But it remains unsolved. His results are nearly the same with our's. For
> >>>> simplicity,  we do not post our results in this email. You can get very
> >>>> detailed information in the web page listed above.
> >>>>       We are very confused by our results. We will very appreciate it if we
> >>>> can receive your early reply. Best wishes,
> >>>> Wang Qi
> >>> Can you please fix your email client?
> >>> The email text looks like one big sentence.
> >>>
> >>> From the perf report attached to this bugzilla, looks like RXE does a
> >>> lot of CRC32 calculations and it is consistent with what Matan said
> >>> a long time ago, RXE "stuck" in ICRC calculations required by spec.
> >>>
> >>> I'm curios what are your CONFIG_CRYPTO_* configs?
> >>>
> >>> ThanksCONFIG_CRYPTO_* configs
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> I'm sorry for the editor problem in my last email. Now I use another editor.
> > Now your email has extra line between lines.
> >
> >> We get our rdma-core and perftest from
> >>
> >> https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/archive/v25.0.tar.gz
> >> and https://github.com/linux-rdma/perftest/archive/4.4-0.8.tar.gz, respectively.
> >>
> >> We attach five files to clarify our problem.
> >>
> >> * The first file "server_tcp_vs_softroce_performance.txt" is the results of TCP
> >>
> >> and softroce throughput in our two servers (connected via back to back).
> >>
> >> * The second file "server_CONFIG_CRYPTO_result.txt" is the
> >>
> >> CONFIG_CRYPTO_* config results in the two servers..
> >>
> >> * The third file "server_perf.txt" is the "ib_send_bw - n 10000 192.168.0.20
> >>
> >> & perf record -ags sleep 10 & wait" results in our two servers (we use
> >>
> >> "perf report --header >perf" to make the file).
> >>
> >> * The fourth file "vm_tcp_vs_softroce_performance.txt" is the results of TCP
> >>
> >> and softroce throughput in two virtual machines with the latest linux kernel
> >>
> >> 5.4.0-rc7
> >>
> >> (we get the kernel from https://github.com/torvalds/linux/archive/v5.4-rc7.zip).
> >>
> >> * The fifth  file "vm_CONFIG_CRYPTO_result.txt" is the result in two virtual
> >>
> >> machines.
> >>
> >> * The sixth file "vm_perf.txt" is the "ib_send_bw - n 10000 192.168.122.228
> >>
> >> & perf record -ags sleep 10 & wait " result in the two virtual machines.
> >>
> >> On the other side, we tried to use the rxe command "rxe_cfg crc disable"
> > I don't see any parsing of "crc disable" in upstream variant of rxe_cfg
> > and there is no such module parameter in the kernel.
> >
> > Thanks
>
>
> We get the command "rxe_cfg crc disable" from the following webpages:
>
> https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/8-rxe_cfg/
>
> https://www.reflectionsofthevoid.com/2011/08/
>
> It may be removed in the present soft-roce edition.

It was never existed in upstream variant and in the kernel you are testing.

>
> Can you figure out why our softroce throughput is so low from the six

According to the logs, it is ICRC.

>
> files in our last email? We hope to get a much higher softroce throughput,
>
> like 20 Gbps in our systems (now it's only 2 Gbps, and hard-roce can be
>
> up to 100 Gbps in our system).
>
> Qi
>
>



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