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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: High perf top ip_idents_reserve doing netperf UDP_STREAM
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 08:17:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1409757426.26422.41.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140903165943.372b897b@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 16:59 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> When doing:
>  super_netperf 120 -H 192.168.8.2 -t UDP_STREAM -l 100 -- -m 256
> 
> I'm seeing function ip_idents_reserve() consuming most CPU.  Could you
> help, explain what is going on, and how I can avoid this?
> 
> Perf top:
>   11.67%  [kernel]   [k] ip_idents_reserve
>    8.37%  [kernel]   [k] fib_table_lookup
>    4.46%  [kernel]   [k] _raw_spin_lock
>    3.21%  [kernel]   [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
>    2.92%  [kernel]   [k] sock_alloc_send_pskb
>    2.88%  [kernel]   [k] udp_sendmsg
> 

Because you use a single destination, all flows compete on a single
atomic to get their next IP identifier.

You can try to use netperf options  (-- -N -n) so that netperf uses
connected UDP sockets.

In this case, the IP identifier generator is held in each socket.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-03 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-03 14:59 High perf top ip_idents_reserve doing netperf UDP_STREAM Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2014-09-03 15:17 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2016-11-16 12:16   ` Netperf UDP issue with connected sockets Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-16 17:46     ` Rick Jones
2016-11-16 22:40       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-16 22:50         ` Rick Jones
2016-11-17  0:34         ` Eric Dumazet
2016-11-17  8:16           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-17 13:20             ` Eric Dumazet
2016-11-17 13:42               ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-17 14:17                 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-11-17 14:57                   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-17 16:21                     ` Eric Dumazet
2016-11-17 18:30                       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-17 18:51                         ` Eric Dumazet
2016-11-17 21:19                           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-17 21:44                             ` Eric Dumazet
2016-11-17 23:08                               ` Rick Jones
2016-11-18  0:37                                 ` Julian Anastasov
2016-11-18  0:42                                   ` Rick Jones
2016-11-18 17:12                               ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-21 16:03                           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-21 18:10                             ` Eric Dumazet
2016-11-29  6:58                               ` [WIP] net+mlx4: auto doorbell Eric Dumazet
2016-11-30 11:38                                 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-30 15:56                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-11-30 19:17                                     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-30 19:30                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2016-11-30 22:30                                         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-30 22:40                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-01  0:27                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-01  1:16                                           ` Tom Herbert
2016-12-01  2:32                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-01  2:50                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-02 18:16                                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-01  5:03                                               ` Tom Herbert
2016-12-01 19:24                                                 ` Willem de Bruijn
2016-11-30 13:50                                 ` Saeed Mahameed
2016-11-30 15:44                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-11-30 16:27                                     ` Saeed Mahameed
2016-11-30 17:28                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-01 12:05                                       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-12-01 14:24                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-01 16:04                                           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-12-01 17:04                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-01 19:17                                               ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-12-01 20:11                                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-01 20:20                                               ` David Miller
2016-12-01 22:10                                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-02 14:23                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-01 21:32                                 ` Alexander Duyck
2016-12-01 22:04                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-11-17 17:34                     ` Netperf UDP issue with connected sockets David Laight
2016-11-17 22:39                       ` Alexander Duyck
2016-11-17 17:42             ` Rick Jones
2016-11-28 18:33             ` Rick Jones
2016-11-28 18:40               ` Rick Jones
2016-11-30 10:43               ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-30 17:42                 ` Rick Jones
2016-11-30 18:11                   ` David Miller

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