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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>,
	"openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org"
	<openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Optimizing kernel compilation / alignments for network performance
Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 11:44:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a1nR2VHYJsTy6aCz9qeZD0M2PYNyYgVwUj=_TOJvwCLwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <306e9713-5c37-8c6a-488b-bc07f8b8b274@gmail.com>

On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 10:55 AM Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6.05.2022 10:45, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 9:44 AM Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> With
> >> echo 1 > /sys/class/net/eth0/queues/rx-0/rps_cpus
> >> my NAT speeds were jumping between 2 speeds:
> >> 284 Mbps / 408 Mbps
> >
> > Can you try using 'numactl -C' to pin the iperf processes to
> > a particular CPU core? This may be related to the locality of
> > the user process relative to where the interrupts end up.
>
> I run iperf on x86 machines connected to router's WAN and LAN ports.
> It's meant to emulate end user just downloading from / uploading to
> Internet some data.
>
> Router's only task is doing masquarade NAT here.

Ah, makes sense. Can you observe the CPU usage to be on
a particular core in the slow vs fast case then?

        Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-06  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-27 12:04 Optimizing kernel compilation / alignments for network performance Rafał Miłecki
2022-04-27 12:56 ` Alexander Lobakin
2022-04-27 17:31   ` Rafał Miłecki
2022-04-29 14:18     ` Rafał Miłecki
2022-04-29 14:49     ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-05 15:42       ` Rafał Miłecki
2022-05-05 16:04         ` Andrew Lunn
2022-05-05 16:46           ` Felix Fietkau
2022-05-06  7:47             ` Rafał Miłecki
2022-05-06 12:42               ` Andrew Lunn
2022-05-10 10:29                 ` Rafał Miłecki
2022-05-10 14:09                   ` Dave Taht
2022-05-10 19:15                     ` Dave Taht
2022-05-06  7:44           ` Rafał Miłecki
2022-05-06  8:45             ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-06  8:55               ` Rafał Miłecki
2022-05-06  9:44                 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2022-05-10 12:51                   ` Rafał Miłecki
2022-05-10 13:19                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-10 11:23               ` Rafał Miłecki
2022-05-10 13:18                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-08  9:53             ` Rafał Miłecki

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