Re: [RFC PATCH nf-next] netfilter: ipvs: Divide estimators into groups

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	Hello,

On Fri, 12 Aug 2022, Jiri Wiesner wrote:

> The calculation of rate estimates for IPVS services and destinations will
> cause an increase in scheduling latency to hundreds of milliseconds when
> the number of estimators reaches tens of thousands or more. This issue has
> been reported upstream [1]. Design changes to the algorithm to compute the
> estimates were proposed in the same email thread.
> 
> By implementing some of the proposed design changes, this patch seeks to
> address the latency issue by dividing the estimators into groups for which
> estimates are calculated in a 2-second interval (same as before). Each of
> the groups is processed once in each 2-second interval. Instead of
> allocating an array of lists, groups are identified by their group_id,
> which has the advantage that estimators can stay in the same list to which
> they have been added by ip_vs_start_estimator(). The implementation of
> estimator grouping is able to scale up with an increasing number of
> estimators as well as scale down when estimators are being removed.
> The changes to group size can be monitored with dynamic debugging:
> echo 'file net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c +pfl' >> /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control
> 
> Rebalacing of estimator groups is implemented and can be triggered only
> after all the calculations for a 2-second interval have finished. After a
> limit is exceeded, adding or removing estimators will triger rebalacing,
> which will cause estimates to be inaccurate in the next 2-second interval.
> For example, removing estimators that results in the removal of an entire
> group will shorten the time interval used for computing rates, which will
> lead to the rates being underestimated in the next 2-second interval.
> 
> Testing was carried out on a 2-socket machine with Intel Xeon Gold 6326
> CPUs (64 logical CPUs). Tests with up to 600,000 estimators were
> successfully completed. The expectation is that, given the current default
> limits, the implementation can handle 150,000 estimators on most machines
> in use today. In a test with 100,000 estimators, the default group size of
> 1024 estimators resulted in the processing time for one group to be circa
> 2.3 milliseconds and a timer period of 5 jiffies. Despite estimators being
> added or removed throughout most of the test, the overhead of
> ip_vs_estimator_rebalance() was less than 10% of the overhead of
>  estimation_timer():
>      7.66%        124093  swapper          [kernel.kallsyms]         [k] intel_idle
>      2.86%         14296  ipvsadm          [kernel.kallsyms]         [k] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
>      2.64%         16827  ipvsadm          [kernel.kallsyms]         [k] ip_vs_genl_parse_service
>      2.15%         18457  ipvsadm          libc-2.31.so              [.] _dl_addr
>      2.08%          4562  ipvsadm          [kernel.kallsyms]         [k] ip_vs_genl_dump_services
>      2.06%         18326  ipvsadm          ld-2.31.so                [.] do_lookup_x
>      1.78%         17251  swapper          [kernel.kallsyms]         [k] estimation_timer
> ...
>      0.14%           855  swapper          [kernel.kallsyms]         [k] ip_vs_estimator_rebalance
> 
> The intention is to develop this RFC patch into a short series addressing
> the design changes proposed in [1]. Also, after moving the rate estimation
> out of softirq context, the whole estimator list could be processed
> concurrently - more than one work item would be used.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/D25792C1-1B89-45DE-9F10-EC350DC04ADC@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Wiesner <jwiesner@xxxxxxx>

	Other developers tried solutions with workqueues
but so far we don't see any results. Give me some days, may be
I can come up with solution that uses kthread(s) to allow later
nice/cpumask cfg tuning and to avoid overload of the system
workqueues.

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>




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