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Date:      Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:29:28 +0100
From:      Gala IT <it@galasoluciones.com>
To:        Alexey Tarasov <me@lexasoft.ru>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Virtio network: poor network with KVM hypervisor (latest Proxmox)
Message-ID:  <2F99614D-7F00-4120-A26B-D21EB05077DC@galasoluciones.com>
In-Reply-To: <93EDB7DE-7940-4525-AC7C-E9D62290375D@lexasoft.ru>
References:  <93EDB7DE-7940-4525-AC7C-E9D62290375D@lexasoft.ru>

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Hi Alexey,

Can=E2=80=99t bring in much light, but here are our settings under =
QEMU-KVM 2.1.0 (qemu-system-x86_64):

kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=3D4194304
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=3D4194304
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=3D4194304
net.inet.tcp.recvspace=3D262144
net.inet.tcp.sendspace=3D262144
net.inet.tcp.mssdflt=3D1460
net.inet.tcp.minmss=3D1300

net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc=3D16384
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=3D524288

We dind=E2=80=99t change any of the eth. settings:
em0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu =
1500
        options=3D80028<VLAN_MTU,JUMBO_MTU,LINKSTATE>
        nd6 options=3D29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet 10Gbase-T <full-duplex> (this is autodetected, =
we=E2=80=99re not enforcing it in any way)
        status: active

We didn=E2=80=99t have as huge of a problem as you do, but we usually =
didn=E2=80=99t get over 10-15 Mbps both inbound and outbound for a =
single TCP connection. Now we easily see 50Mbps ratios, which is way =
more reasonable, although not impressive.

IIRC the biggest change came after changing:

net.inet.tcp.mssdflt=3D1460
net.inet.tcp.minmss=3D1300

net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc=3D16384
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=3D524288

We=E2=80=99re on 9.3-RELEASE-p5.

I can=E2=80=99t seem to enable/disable TSO or LRO via ifconfig, neither =
I can find any sysctl tunables related to this (man vtnet reads that =
there should be some):

# sysctl hw. | grep vtnet
# (no output)

Hope it helps. Please let us know if you find out anything else, as =
we=E2=80=99re also interested in getting some more throughput out of =
those interfaces!

Best,
David

> El 1 mar=C3=A7 2016, a les 12:30, Alexey Tarasov <me@lexasoft.ru> va =
escriure:
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> Hi all!=20
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> I am using the latest Proxmox 4.1 with all updates installed.=20
> I have several VM's with FreeBSD guests and 1 VM with Ubuntu 14 (all =
KVM).=20
> Host system file download speed: 60 MBps.=20
> FreeBSD guest download speed: 2 MBps on virtio network with TSO =
enabled, 5-9 MBps with TSO disabled; 12 MBps on e1000 network.=20
> Ubuntu guest: 60 MBps with virtio.=20
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> I've tried the following:=20
> 1) Different FreeBSD versions: 9.3, 10.2, 10.3-BETA3.=20
> 2) Different TSO settings, enabling/disabling RXCSUM.=20
> 3) Different TSO settings on host system.=20
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> The best results I got described above :(=20
>=20
> Does anyone have any ideas how to get full network performance inside =
FreeBSD guests?=20
>=20
> --
> Alexey Tarasov
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> (=3D'.'=3D)=20
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> (")_(")
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