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From: "Thomas Rosenstein" <thomas.rosenstein@creamfinance.com>
To: "Jesper Dangaard Brouer" <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Bufferbloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>,
	"Saeed Mahameed" <saeed@kernel.org>,
	"Tariq Toukan" <ttoukan.linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Router congestion, slow ping/ack times with kernel 5.4.60
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:31:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8B5A1292-72E2-4715-838C-5823AFA6B7BD@creamfinance.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201112164236.3f94702a@carbon>



On 12 Nov 2020, at 16:42, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:42:59 +0100
> "Thomas Rosenstein" <thomas.rosenstein@creamfinance.com> wrote:
>
>>> Notice "Adaptive" setting is on.  My long-shot theory(2) is that 
>>> this
>>> adaptive algorithm in the driver code can guess wrong (due to not
>>> taking TSO into account) and cause issues for
>>>
>>> Try to turn this adaptive algorithm off:
>>>
>>>   ethtool -C eth4 adaptive-rx off adaptive-tx off
>>>
> [...]
>>>>
>>>> rx-usecs: 32
>>>
>>> When you run off "adaptive-rx" you will get 31250 interrupts/sec
>>> (calc 1/(32/10^6) = 31250).
>>>
>>>> rx-frames: 64
> [...]
>>>> tx-usecs-irq: 0
>>>> tx-frames-irq: 0
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> I have now updated the settings to:
>>
>> ethtool -c eth4
>> Coalesce parameters for eth4:
>> Adaptive RX: off  TX: off
>> stats-block-usecs: 0
>> sample-interval: 0
>> pkt-rate-low: 0
>> pkt-rate-high: 0
>>
>> rx-usecs: 0
>
> Please put a value in rx-usecs, like 20 or 10.
> The value 0 is often used to signal driver to do adaptive.

Ok, put it now to 10.

Goes a bit quicker (transfer up to 26 MB/s), but discards and pci stalls 
are still there.

Ping times are noticable improved:

64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=39 ttl=64 time=0.172 ms
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=40 ttl=64 time=0.414 ms
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=41 ttl=64 time=0.183 ms
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=42 ttl=64 time=1.41 ms
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=43 ttl=64 time=0.172 ms
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=44 ttl=64 time=0.228 ms
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=46 ttl=64 time=0.120 ms
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=47 ttl=64 time=1.47 ms
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=48 ttl=64 time=0.162 ms
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=49 ttl=64 time=0.160 ms
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=50 ttl=64 time=0.158 ms
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=51 ttl=64 time=0.113 ms

>
>> rx-frames: 32
>> rx-usecs-irq: 0
>> rx-frames-irq: 0
>
>
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
>   Jesper Dangaard Brouer
>   MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
>   LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-13  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-04 15:23 Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-04 16:10 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-11-04 16:24   ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-05  0:10     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-11-05  8:48       ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-05 11:21         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-11-05 12:22           ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-05 12:38             ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-11-05 12:41               ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-05 12:47                 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-11-05 13:33             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-11-06  8:48               ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-06 10:53                 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-11-06  9:18               ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-06 11:18                 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-11-06 11:37                   ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-06 11:45                     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-11-06 12:01                       ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-06 12:53                       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-11-06 14:13                         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-11-06 17:04                           ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-06 20:19                             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-11-07 12:37                               ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-07 12:40                                 ` Jan Ceuleers
2020-11-07 12:43                                   ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-07 13:00                                   ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-09  8:24                                     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-11-09 10:09                                       ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-09 11:40                                         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-11-09 11:51                                           ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-11-09 12:25                                           ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-09 14:33                                           ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-12 10:05                                             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-11-12 11:26                                               ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-12 13:31                                                 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-11-12 13:42                                                   ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-12 15:42                                                     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-11-13  6:31                                                       ` Thomas Rosenstein [this message]
2020-11-16 11:56                                                         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-11-16 12:05                                                           ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-09 16:39                                           ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-07 13:33                                 ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-07 16:46                                 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-11-07 17:01                                   ` Thomas Rosenstein
2020-11-07 17:26                                     ` Sebastian Moeller
2020-11-16 12:34 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-11-16 12:49   ` Thomas Rosenstein

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