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Network drivers can call to netif_get_num_default_rss_queues to get the default number of receive queues to use. Right now, this default number is min(8, num_online_cpus()). Instead, as suggested by Jakub, use the number of physical cores divided by 2 as a way to avoid wasting CPU resources and to avoid using both CPU threads, but still allowing to scale for high-end processors with many cores. As an exception, select 2 queues for processors with 2 cores, because otherwise it won't take any advantage of RSS despite being SMP capable. Tested: Processor Intel Xeon E5-2620 (2 sockets, 6 cores/socket, 2 threads/core). NIC Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57810 (10GBps). Ran some tests with `perf stat iperf3 -R`, with parallelisms of 1, 8 and 24, getting the following results: - Number of queues: 6 (instead of 8) - Network throughput: not affected - CPU usage: utilized 0.05-0.12 CPUs more than before (having 24 CPUs this is only 0.2-0.5% higher) - Reduced the number of context switches by 7-50%, being more noticeable when using a higher number of parallel threads. Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220315091832.13873-1-ihuguet@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
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