Re: [PATCH 1/3] Kernel interfaces for multiqueue aware socket

[Eric Dumazet]

Le mercredi 15 dÃcembre 2010 Ã 12:02 -0800, Fenghua Yu a Ãcrit :
> From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Multiqueue and multicore provide packet parallel processing methodology.
> Current kernel and network drivers place one queue on one core. But the higher
> level socket doesn't know multiqueue. Current socket only can receive or send
> packets through one network interfaces. In some cases e.g. multi bpf filter
> tcpdump and snort, a lot of contentions come from socket operations like ring
> buffer. Even if the application itself has been fully parallelized and run on
> multi-core systems and NIC handlex tx/rx in multiqueue in parallel, network layer
> and NIC device driver assemble packets to a single, serialized queue. Thus the
> application cannot actually run in parallel in high speed.
> 
> To break the serialized packets assembling bottleneck in kernel, one way is to
> allow socket to know multiqueue associated with a NIC interface. So each socket
> can handle tx/rx in one queue in parallel.
> 
> Kernel provides several interfaces by which sockets can be bound to rx/tx queues.
> User applications can configure socket by providing several sockets that each
> bound to a single queue, applications can get data from kernel in parallel. After
> that, competitions mentioned above can be removed.
> 
> With this patch, the user-space receiving speed on a Intel SR1690 server with
> a single L5640 6-core processor and a single ixgbe-based NIC goes from 0.73Mpps
> to 4.20Mpps, nearly a linear speedup. A Intel SR1625 server two E5530 4-core
> processors and a single ixgbe-based NIC goes from 0.80Mpps to 4.6Mpps. We noticed
> the performance penalty comes from NUMA memory allocation.
> 

??? please elaborate on these NUMA memory allocations. This should be OK
after commit 564824b0c52c34692d (net: allocate skbs on local node)

> This patch set provides kernel ioctl interfaces for user space. User space can
> either directly call the interfaces or libpcap interfaces can be further provided
> on the top of the kernel ioctl interfaces.

So, say we have 8 queues, you want libpcap opens 8 sockets, and bind
them to each queue. Add a bpf filter to each one of them. This seems not
generic way, because it wont work for an UDP socket for example.
And you already can do this using SKF_AD_QUEUE (added in commit
d19742fb)

Also your AF_PACKET patch only address mmaped sockets.



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