[Click] Multi-threaded Traffic Generation

Tue Feb 1 20:21:00 EST 2011

On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 19:14:15 -0600 Ashok Anand <ashok.anand at gmail.com> wrote

> yeah, it uses multiple tx queues for a single device.
> 
> Strangely, we did not see two kclick hogging up with the following click
> conf as well..
> 
> What was the click compilation options you used, apart from what we had..

$ ./configure --enable-ip6 --enable-analysis --enable-user-multithread
--enable-task-heap --enable-experimental --enable-multithread=4
--enable-fixincludes

I pulled the source last week.

Roman

> 
> ./configure --enable-linuxmodule --enable-warp9
> > >> --enable-multithread=8 --disable-userlevel
> > >> and command line for running click was
> 
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Roman Chertov <rchertov at cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I am not sure what your MQToDevice element does (i assume it uses multiple
> > tx
> > queues for a single device).
> >
> > However, with the script below
> > pd0 :: InfiniteSource(DATA \<00 00 c0 ae 67 ef  00 00 00 00 00 00  08 00
> >       45 00 00 28  00 00 00 00  40 11 77 c3  01 00 00 01
> >       02 00 00 02  13 69 13 69  00 14 d6 41  55 44 50 20
> >       70 61 63 6b  65 74 21 0a  04 00 00 00  01 00 00 00
> >       01 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 80 04 08  00 80 04 08
> >       53 53 00 00  53 53 00 00  05 00 00 00  00 10 00 00
> >       01 00 00 00  54 53 00 00  54 e3 04 08  54 e3 04 08
> >       d8 01 00 00>, LIMIT -1, STOP true)
> >    -> q1 :: CPUQueue(1000)
> >     -> uq0 :: Unqueue2
> >    -> Discard;
> >
> > StaticThreadSched(pd0 0, uq0 0);
> >
> > pd1 :: RandomSource(1400)
> >    -> q2 :: CPUQueue(1000)
> >     -> uq1 :: Unqueue2
> >    -> Discard;
> >
> > When I run top, I can see to kclick hogging up two CPUs.
> >
> > Roman
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:38:19 -0600 "Nilay" <nilay at cs.wisc.edu> wrote
> >
> > > gen2.conf looks like
> > >
> > > pd0 :: InfiniteSource(DATA \<00 00 c0 ae 67 ef  00 00 00 00 00 00  08 00
> > > 45 00 00 28  00 00 00 00  40 11 77 c3  01 00 00 01
> > > 02 00 00 02  13 69 13 69  00 14 d6 41  55 44 50 20
> > > 70 61 63 6b  65 74 21 0a  04 00 00 00  01 00 00 00
> > > 01 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 80 04 08  00 80 04 08
> > > 53 53 00 00  53 53 00 00  05 00 00 00  00 10 00 00
> > > 01 00 00 00  54 53 00 00  54 e3 04 08  54 e3 04 08
> > > d8 01 00 00>, LIMIT -1, STOP true) ->
> > > q1 :: CPUQueue(1000) ->
> > > td0 :: MQToDevice(eth1, QUEUE 0, BURST 32);
> > > StaticThreadSched(pd0 0, td0 0);
> > >
> > > pd1 :: RandomSource(1400) ->
> > > q2 :: CPUQueue(1000) ->
> > > td1 :: MQToDevice(eth1, QUEUE 1, BURST 32);
> > > StaticThreadSched(pd1 1, td1 1);
> > >
> > > ~
> > >
> > > On Tue, February 1, 2011 6:34 pm, Roman Chertov wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:26:12 -0600 Ashok Anand <ashok.anand at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote
> > > >
> > > >> We used, ./configure --enable-linuxmodule --enable-warp9
> > > >> --enable-multithread=8 --disable-userlevel
> > > >> and command line for running click was
> > > >> click-install -t 8 gen2.conf
> > > >
> > > > And how does gen2.conf look like?
> > > >
> > > > Roman
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Cliff Frey <cliff at meraki.com> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > what configuration params did you build click with, and what command
> > > >> line
> > > >> > are you running click with?  (both involve flags to enable
> > > >> multithreading)
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Cliff
> > > >> >
> > > >> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Nilay Vaish <nilay at cs.wisc.edu>
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > > I am trying to generate traffic using Click in its multi-threaded
> > > >> mode.
> > > >> > The
> > > >> > > configuration file looks like following :
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > pd0 :: InfiniteSource(DATA \<00 00 c0 ae 67 ef  00 00 00 00 00 00
> > > >> 08 00
> > > >> > > 45 00 00 28  00 00 00 00  40 11 77 c3  01 00 00 01
> > > >> > > 02 00 00 02  13 69 13 69  00 14 d6 41  55 44 50 20
> > > >> > > 70 61 63 6b  65 74 21 0a  04 00 00 00  01 00 00 00
> > > >> > > 01 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 80 04 08  00 80 04 08
> > > >> > > 53 53 00 00  53 53 00 00  05 00 00 00  00 10 00 00
> > > >> > > 01 00 00 00  54 53 00 00  54 e3 04 08  54 e3 04 08
> > > >> > > d8 01 00 00>, LIMIT 600000, STOP true) ->
> > > >> > > td0 :: MQToDevice(eth1, QUEUE 0, BURST 32);
> > > >> > > StaticThreadSched(pd0 0, td0 0);
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > It actually eight such descriptions. The router starts with this
> > > >> > > configuraion,
> > > >> > > but I see only when active thread when I use the 'top' utility.
> > Any
> > > >> idea
> > > >> > as
> > > >> > > to
> > > >> > > what could be the reason for this?
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > Thanks
> > > >> > > Nilay
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