Re: This is the fourth time I've tried to find what led to the regression of outgoing network speed and each time I find the merge commit 8c94ccc7cd691472461448f98e2372c75849406c

From: mikhail . v . gavrilov
Date: Tue Feb 27 2024 - 12:09:03 EST


On Mon, 2024-02-26 at 19:09 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> we don't have any information about the overall workload,

During measurements nothing was running except iperf3

> other interrupt sources on CPU0 and their frequency. That'd need to
> be investigated with instrumentation and might unearth some
> completely different underlying reason causing this behavior.

I made simple bash script for benchmark enp14s0 on each of CPU core.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
for i in {0..31}
do
smp_affinity=$(echo 'obase=16; '$((2 ** i)) | bc)
echo "echo $smp_affinity > /proc/irq/84/smp_affinity"
echo $smp_affinity > /proc/irq/84/smp_affinity
echo 'iperf3 -c primary-ws.local -t 5 -p 5000 -P 1'
iperf3 -c primary-ws.local -t 5 -p 5000 -P 1
done

And attach here results of iperf3 for kernels 6.7.0 and 6.8.0-rc6.
Which once again makes sure that CPU0 is a bad option in both cases.
And any other CPU does not necessarily 23 allow the network interface
to operate at the limit of the capabilities of the network cable.

I also attach /proc/interrupts I hope this helps clear things up.

I don't know how else to help you. What information to provide.

About repeatability my "unlucky" scenario.
I have two MSI MPG B650I EDGE WIFI motherboards and this problem
happened both at the same time.

It seems the problem has always been there, we just never noticed it.

--
Best Regards,
Mike Gavrilov.

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