linux/samples
Jesper Dangaard Brouer 0d25c43ab9 samples/bpf: extend xdp_rxq_info to read packet payload
There is a cost associated with reading the packet data payload
that this test ignored.  Add option --read to allow enabling
reading part of the payload.

This sample/tool helps us analyse an issue observed with a NIC
mlx5 (ConnectX-5 Ex) and an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1650 v4.

With no_touch of data:

Running XDP on dev:mlx5p1 (ifindex:8) action:XDP_DROP options:no_touch
XDP stats       CPU     pps         issue-pps
XDP-RX CPU      0       14,465,157  0
XDP-RX CPU      1       14,464,728  0
XDP-RX CPU      2       14,465,283  0
XDP-RX CPU      3       14,465,282  0
XDP-RX CPU      4       14,464,159  0
XDP-RX CPU      5       14,465,379  0
XDP-RX CPU      total   86,789,992

When not touching data, we observe that the CPUs have idle cycles.
When reading data the CPUs are 100% busy in softirq.

With reading data:

Running XDP on dev:mlx5p1 (ifindex:8) action:XDP_DROP options:read
XDP stats       CPU     pps         issue-pps
XDP-RX CPU      0       9,620,639   0
XDP-RX CPU      1       9,489,843   0
XDP-RX CPU      2       9,407,854   0
XDP-RX CPU      3       9,422,289   0
XDP-RX CPU      4       9,321,959   0
XDP-RX CPU      5       9,395,242   0
XDP-RX CPU      total   56,657,828

The effect seen above is a result of cache-misses occuring when
more RXQs are being used.  Based on perf-event observations, our
conclusion is that the CPUs DDIO (Direct Data I/O) choose to
deliver packet into main memory, instead of L3-cache.  We also
found, that this can be mitigated by either using less RXQs or by
reducing NICs the RX-ring size.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2018-06-28 23:50:20 +02:00
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auxdisplay auxdisplay: Replace licenses with SPDX identifiers 2018-04-12 19:02:45 +02:00
bpf samples/bpf: extend xdp_rxq_info to read packet payload 2018-06-28 23:50:20 +02:00
configfs configfs: make config_item_type const 2017-10-19 16:15:15 +02:00
connector A relatively calm cycle for the docs tree again. 2017-11-13 08:25:06 -08:00
hidraw kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
hw_breakpoint perf: Add context field to perf_event 2011-07-01 11:06:38 +02:00
kdb kdb: Add kdb kernel module sample 2010-10-29 13:14:39 -05:00
kfifo kfifo: clean up example to not use page_link 2017-07-12 16:26:01 -07:00
kobject kobject: Remove redundant license text 2017-12-07 18:36:43 +01:00
kprobes arch: remove tile port 2018-03-16 10:56:03 +01:00
livepatch livepatch: Allow to call a custom callback when freeing shadow variables 2018-04-17 13:42:48 +02:00
mei License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mic/mpssd Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to resolve conflicts 2017-11-07 10:32:44 +01:00
pktgen Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-11-04 09:26:51 +09:00
qmi samples: Introduce Qualcomm QMI sample client 2018-02-12 16:57:22 -08:00
rpmsg rpmsg: Allow callback to return errors 2016-09-08 22:15:25 -07:00
seccomp samples/seccomp: do not compile when cross compiled 2018-02-22 09:31:43 -08:00
statx kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
timers License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
trace_events Merge branch 'for-linus' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2017-11-15 10:14:11 -08:00
trace_printk tracing: Add trace_printk sample code 2016-06-20 09:54:21 -04:00
uhid kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
v4l [media] media: v4l2-pci-skeleton: Fix error handling path in 'skeleton_probe()' 2017-10-04 16:55:02 -03:00
vfio-mdev sample: vfio bochs vbe display (host device for bochs-drm) 2018-06-08 10:24:16 -06:00
watchdog License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig samples: mbochs: add DMA_SHARED_BUFFER dependency 2018-06-09 09:23:52 -06:00
Makefile remoteproc updates for v4.17 2018-04-10 12:09:27 -07:00