[Click] 10GE Click performance

[Eddie Kohler]

This is cool! I've added it to the click wiki under "publications"; 
please feel free to get a wiki login and clean up the cite.

Eddie


On 1/18/12 8:38 AM, Ricard Vilalta wrote:
> Hi Roman,
>
> I have recently published the following paper using click and 10GE
> transceivers.
> http://www.cttc.es/resources/doc/110728-hpsr-mplstp-final-46195.pdf
>
> I hope an extended version will be published soon in a journal.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ricard
>
> On 01/18/2012 02:29 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:13 AM, rchertov<rchertov at cs.ucsb.edu>   wrote:
>>> I finally got my hands on some 10GE equipment and started to play
>>> around with Click.  So I noticed the following.  On 2.6.24.7 patched
>>> kernel using 3.7.17 ixgbe driver, I get around 200K pps when running a
>>> node as a bridge (click pulled from git today).  However, when on
>>> exactly the same node I run the exactly same test but I use
>>> click-1.7.0rc1, then I can easily achieve 300K pps.  I have also tried
>>> 2.6.35.14-106.fc14.i686 using the latest Click and I still got around
>>> 200K pps.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am curious of people's experiences when running Click on 10GE
>>> equipment.  Has anybody got the RouteBricks MQ code running?  Everything
>>> compiled for me, but I get pretty strange packet forwarding performance,
>>> where the data is either delayed by quite a bit or it is just corrupted.
>>>
>>> My fancy one way bridge config
>>>
>>> fd :: FromDevice(eth2, PROMISC true, BURST 32)
>>>      ->   ctr1 :: AverageCounter
>>>      ->   q :: Queue(4096)
>>>      ->   ctr2 :: AverageCounter
>>>      ->   ToDevice(eth3, BURST 64);
>> remember that fetching timestamps, even staying in-kernel,
>> is extremely expensive (in the order of 250-500ns) so if you use
>> one of those elements in your pipeline you won't be able
>> to get decent performance.
>>
>> try to remove one or both counters and see if that improves
>> the throughput (this said, 200 or 300kpps really seems too
>> low to be explained by timestamps)
>>
>> cheers
>> luigi
>>
>>
>>
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