Linux kernel modifications for the Kernel Hacking exam
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Experience from production shows queue size of 192 is too small, as
this caused packet drops during cpumap-enqueue on RX-CPU. This can be
diagnosed with xdp_monitor sample program.
This bpftrace program was used to diagnose the problem in more detail:
bpftrace -e '
tracepoint:xdp:xdp_cpumap_kthread { @deq_bulk = lhist(args->processed,0,10,1); @drop_net = lhist(args->drops,0,10,1) }
tracepoint:xdp:xdp_cpumap_enqueue { @enq_bulk = lhist(args->processed,0,10,1); @enq_drops = lhist(args->drops,0,10,1); }'
Watch out for the @enq_drops counter. The @drop_net counter can happen
when netstack gets invalid packets, so don't despair it can be
natural, and that counter will likely disappear in newer kernels as it
was a source of confusion (look at netstat info for reason of the
netstack @drop_net counters).
The production system was configured with CPU power-saving C6 state.
Learn more in this blogpost[1].
And wakeup latency in usec for the states are:
# grep -H . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle/*/latency
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle/state0/latency:0
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle/state1/latency:2
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle/state2/latency:10
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle/state3/latency:133
Deepest state take 133 usec to wakeup from (133/10^6). The link speed
is 25Gbit/s ((25*10^9/8) in bytes/sec). How many bytes can arrive with
in 133 usec at this speed: (25*10^9/8)*(133/10^6) = 415625 bytes. With
MTU size packets this is 275 packets, and with minimum Ethernet (incl
intergap overhead) 84 bytes it is 4948 packets. Clearly default queue
size is too small.
Setting default cpumap queue to 2048 as worst-case (small packet) at
10Gbit/s is 1979 packets with 133 usec wakeup time, +64 packet before
kthread wakeup call (due to xdp_do_flush) worst-case 2043 packets.
Thus, if a packet burst on RX-CPU will enqueue packets to a remote
cpumap CPU that is in deep-sleep state it can overrun the cpumap queue.
The production system was also configured to avoid deep-sleep via:
tuned-adm profile network-latency
[1] https://jeremyeder.com/2013/08/30/oh-did-you-expect-the-cpu/
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/162523477604.786243.13372630844944530891.stgit@firesoul
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