This patch updates the lowest limit for adaptive interrupt interrupt
moderation to roughly 12K interrupts per second.
The way I came about reaching 12K as the desired interrupt rate is by
testing with UDP flows. Specifically I had a simple test that ran a
netperf UDP_STREAM test at varying sizes. What I found was as the packet
sizes increased the performance fell steadily behind until we were only
able to receive at ~4Gb/s with a message size of 65507. A bit of digging
found that we were dropping packets for the socket in the network stack,
and looking at things further what I found was I could solve it by increasing
the interrupt rate, or increasing the rmem_default/rmem_max. What I found was
that when the interrupt coalescing resulted in more data being processed
per interrupt than could be stored in the socket buffer we started losing
packets and the performance dropped. So I reached 12K based on the
following math.
rmem_default = 212992
skb->truesize = 2994
212992 / 2994 = 71.14 packets to fill the buffer
packet rate at 1514 packet size is 812744pps
71.14 / 812744 = 87.9us to fill socket buffer
From there it was just a matter of choosing the interrupt rate and
providing a bit of wiggle room which is why I decided to go with 12K
interrupts per second as that uses a value of 84us.
The data below is based on VM to VM over a direct assigned ixgbe interface.
The test run was:
netperf -H <ip> -t UDP_STREAM"
Socket Message Elapsed Messages CPU Service
Size Size Time Okay Errors Throughput Util Demand
bytes bytes secs # # 10^6bits/sec % SS us/KB
Before:
212992 65507 60.00 1100662 0 9613.4 10.89 0.557
212992 60.00 473474 4135.4 11.27 0.576
After:
212992 65507 60.00 1100413 0 9611.2 10.73 0.549
212992 60.00 974132 8508.3 11.69 0.598
Using bare metal the data is similar but not as dramatic as the throughput
increases from about 8.5Gb/s to 9.5Gb/s.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Krishneil Singh <krishneil.k.singh@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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