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SubjectRe: questions on NAPI processing latency and dropped network packets
Chris Friesen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got an issue that's popped up with a deployed system running
> 2.6.10. I'm looking for some help figuring out why incoming network
> packets aren't being processed fast enough.
>
> 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:
>
> rx_packets: 32180834
> rx_bytes: 5480756958
> rx_errors: 862506
> rx_dropped: 771345
> rx_length_errors: 0
> rx_over_errors: 0
> rx_crc_errors: 0
> rx_frame_errors: 0
> rx_fifo_errors: 91161
> rx_missed_errors: 91161
>
> This link is receiving roughly 13K packets/sec, and we're dropping
> roughly 51 packets/sec due to fifo errors.
>
> Increasing the rx descriptor ring size from 256 up to around 3000 or so
> seems to make the problem stop, but it seems to me that this is just a
> workaround for the latency in processing the incoming packets.
>
> So, I'm looking for some suggestions on how to fix this or to figure out
> where the latency is coming from.
>
> Some additional information:
>
>
> 1) Interrupts are being processed on both cpus:
>
> root@base0-0-0-13-0-11-1:/root> cat /proc/interrupts
> CPU0 CPU1
> 30: 1703756 4530785 U3-MPIC Level eth0
>
>
>
>
> 2) "top" shows a fair amount of time processing softirqs, but very
> little time in ksoftirqd (or is that a sampling artifact?).
>
>
> Tasks: 79 total, 1 running, 78 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu0: 23.6% us, 30.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 36.9% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 8.3% si
> Cpu1: 30.4% us, 24.1% sy, 0.0% ni, 5.9% id, 0.0% wa, 0.7% hi, 38.9% si
> Mem: 4007812k total, 2199148k used, 1808664k free, 0k buffers
> Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 219844k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 5375 root 15 0 2682m 1.8g 6640 S 99.9 46.7 31:17.68
> SigtranServices
> 7696 root 17 0 6952 3212 1192 S 7.3 0.1 0:15.75
> schedmon.ppc210
> 7859 root 16 0 2688 1228 964 R 0.7 0.0 0:00.04 top
> 2956 root 8 -8 18940 7436 5776 S 0.3 0.2 0:01.35 blademtc
> 1 root 16 0 1660 620 532 S 0.0 0.0 0:30.62 init
> 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/0
> 3 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.55 ksoftirqd/0
> 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/1
> 5 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.43 ksoftirqd/1
>
>
> 3) /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_max_backlog is set to the default of 300
>
>
> So...anyone have any ideas/suggestions?

You're using 2.6.10... you can always replace the e1000 module with the
out-of-tree version from e1000.sf.net, this might help a bit - the version in the
2.6.10 kernel is very very old.

it also appears that your app is eating up CPU time. perhaps setting the app to a
nicer nice level might mitigate things a bit. Also turn off the in-kernel irq
mitigation, it just causes cache misses and you really need the network irq to sit
on a single cpu at most (if not all) the time to get the best performance. Use the
userspace irqbalance daemon instead to achieve this.

Auke



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