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Date:      Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:18:45 -0400
From:      Paul <paul@gtcomm.net>
To:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]
Message-ID:  <4869B025.9080006@gtcomm.net>
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Dual opteron 2212, amd64 kernel, GENERIC  (same setup as my 270 I just 
posted except this is 64 bit and different NIC)
Intel dual port 82571 , nothing changed in sysctl except fw and fastfw

            input          (em0)           output
   packets  errs      bytes    packets  errs      bytes colls
    455729 69094   27343822          9     0       1412     0
    455582 67566   27334938          3     0        566     0
    455525 66033   27331518          3     0        566     0
    456632 68384   27397938          3     0        566     0
    457144 70006   27428604          4     0        776     0
    453551 71307   27213226          7     0       1038     0
    455282 74669   27317022          6     0       1068     0
    452268 75878   27136104          4     0        744     0
    455447 76942   27326838          4     0        744     0
    455408 68166   27324522          5     0        922     0
    456113 74600   27366798          4     0        744     0
    456316 68522   27378996          5     0        922     0
    455888 71665   27353322          5     0       1034     0
    453448 76407   27206904          4     0        744     0
    453907 79158   27234444          4     0        744     0
    452921 66532   27175278          4     0        744     0
    456049 60947   27363048          8     0       1216     0

em0: Excessive collisions = 0
em0: Sequence errors = 0
em0: Defer count = 0
em0: Missed Packets = 131239807
em0: Receive No Buffers = 154088217
em0: Receive Length Errors = 0
em0: Receive errors = 0
em0: Crc errors = 0
em0: Alignment errors = 0
em0: Collision/Carrier extension errors = 0
em0: RX overruns = 4986006
em0: watchdog timeouts = 0
em0: XON Rcvd = 0
em0: XON Xmtd = 0
em0: XOFF Rcvd = 0
em0: XOFF Xmtd = 0
em0: Good Packets Rcvd = 969917996
em0: Good Packets Xmtd = 98120420
em0: TSO Contexts Xmtd = 2062
em0: TSO Contexts Failed = 0


errrrrrrrrrrorss.....

79 processes:  6 running, 52 sleeping, 3 stopped, 18 waiting
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice, 28.2% system,  0.0% interrupt, 71.8% 
idle
Mem: 18M Active, 787M Inact, 241M Wired, 196K Cache, 213M Buf, 928M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
   12 root     171 ki31     0K    16K CPU2   2 348:19 99.02% idle: cpu2
   13 root     171 ki31     0K    16K CPU1   1 347:02 99.02% idle: cpu1
   37 root     -68    -     0K    16K CPU3   3  37:48 99.02% em0 taskq
   14 root     171 ki31     0K    16K RUN    0 340:08 85.94% idle: cpu0
   38 root     -68    -     0K    16K -      1   8:46 12.06% em1 taskq


How do you like those IDLE CPUS :) except 3 of course.. :>

Paul wrote:
> Dual opteron 270
> 32 bit GENERIC KERNEL Nothing changed in sysctl except forwarding and 
> ip forwarding
> Broadcom interfaces on board NIC
>
> last pid: 11557;  load averages:  1.13,  0.83,  
> 0.48                                                                  
> up 0+03:24:26  21:58:38
> 70 processes:  6 running, 46 sleeping, 18 waiting
> CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.2% system, 28.8% interrupt, 
> 71.1% idle
> Mem: 9124K Active, 6844K Inact, 26M Wired, 9776K Buf, 1957M Free
> Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
>
>  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>   13 root     171 ki31     0K     8K CPU1   1 203:39 98.93% idle: cpu1
>   14 root     171 ki31     0K     8K RUN    0 203:26 98.05% idle: cpu0
>   33 root     -68    -     0K     8K CPU2   2  13:06 93.99% irq24: bge0
>   11 root     171 ki31     0K     8K CPU3   3 201:59 79.10% idle: cpu3
>   34 root     -68    -     0K     8K WAIT   3   1:49 18.90% irq25: bge1
>   12 root     171 ki31     0K     8K RUN    2 190:42  4.00% idle: cpu2
>
>           input         (bge0)           output
>   packets  errs      bytes    packets  errs      bytes colls
>    410143 65619   24608586          1     0        226     0
>    410350 66749   24621006          1     0        178     0
>    409452 65382   24567126          1     0        178     0
>    410338 63157   24620286          1     0        178     0
>    410125 65777   24607446          1     0        178     0
>    409794 63018   24587706          1     0        178     0
>    408208 67566   24492486          1     0        178     0
>    408416 70305   24504906          1     0        178     0
>    407919 68339   24475206          1     0        178     0
>
>
> sysctl -a | grep bge.0.stats
> dev.bge.0.stats.FramesDroppedDueToFilters: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.DmaWriteQueueFull: 310574781
> dev.bge.0.stats.DmaWriteHighPriQueueFull: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.NoMoreRxBDs: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.InputDiscards: 20942213
> dev.bge.0.stats.InputErrors: 15
> dev.bge.0.stats.RecvThresholdHit: 51440366
> dev.bge.0.stats.DmaReadQueueFull: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.DmaReadHighPriQueueFull: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.SendDataCompQueueFull: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.RingSetSendProdIndex: 25738223
> dev.bge.0.stats.RingStatusUpdate: 51719806
> dev.bge.0.stats.Interrupts: 51719806
> dev.bge.0.stats.AvoidedInterrupts: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.SendThresholdHit: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.Octets: 3477501149
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.Fragments: 116
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.UcastPkts: 519429709
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.MulticastPkts: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.FCSErrors: 3
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.AlignmentErrors: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.xonPauseFramesReceived: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.xoffPauseFramesReceived: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.ControlFramesReceived: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.xoffStateEntered: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.FramesTooLong: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.Jabbers: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.UndersizePkts: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.inRangeLengthError: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.rx.outRangeLengthError: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.Octets: 2215096864
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.Collisions: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.XonSent: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.XoffSent: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.flowControlDone: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.InternalMacTransmitErrors: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.SingleCollisionFrames: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.MultipleCollisionFrames: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.DeferredTransmissions: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.ExcessiveCollisions: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.LateCollisions: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.UcastPkts: 25738364
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.MulticastPkts: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.BroadcastPkts: 15
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.CarrierSenseErrors: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.Discards: 0
> dev.bge.0.stats.tx.Errors: 0
>
> errors..ERRORS!)(@!*()
>
> Hitting that 400k pps limit again, and this is a slower machine than 
> my dual 2212.
> Going to compile 7-STABLE with options for the cpu and will report back
>
>
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