Network anomalies after update from 11.2 STABLE to 12.1 STABLE

Paul devgs at ukr.net
Sat Oct 19 16:09:30 UTC 2019


Hi Michael,

Thank you, for taking your time!

We use physical machines. We don not have any special `pf` rules. 
Both sides ran `pfctl -d` before testing.


`nginx` config is primitive, no secrets there:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
user  www;
worker_processes  auto;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;

events {
    worker_connections  81920;
    kqueue_changes  4096;
    use kqueue;
}

http {
    include                     mime.types;
    default_type                application/octet-stream;

    sendfile                    off;
    keepalive_timeout           65;
    tcp_nopush                  on;
    tcp_nodelay                 on;

    # Logging
    log_format  main            '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                                '$status $request_length $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                                '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_real_ip" "$realip_remote_addr" "$request_completion" "$request_time" '
                                '"$request_body"';

    access_log                  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    server {
        listen                  80 default;

        server_name             localhost _;

        location / {
            return 404;
        }
    }
}
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`wrk` is compiled with a default configuration. We test like this:

`wrk -c 10 --header "Connection: close" -d 10 -t 1 --latency http://10.10.10.92:80/missing`


Also, it seems that our issue, and the one described in this thread, are identical:

   https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2019-June/053667.html

We both have the Intel network cards, BTW. Our network cards are these:

em0 at pci0:10:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x000015d9 chip=0x10d38086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '82574L Gigabit Network Connection'

ixl0 at pci0:4:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x00078086 chip=0x15728086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+'


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Additional info:

During the tests, we have bonded two interfaces into a lagg:

ixl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=c500b8<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        ether 3c:fd:fe:aa:60:20
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-SR <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
ixl1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=c500b8<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        ether 3c:fd:fe:aa:60:20
        hwaddr 3c:fd:fe:aa:60:21
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-SR <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>


lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=c500b8<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        ether 3c:fd:fe:aa:60:20
        inet 10.10.10.92 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 10.10.255.255
        laggproto failover lagghash l2,l3,l4
        laggport: ixl0 flags=5<MASTER,ACTIVE>
        laggport: ixl1 flags=0<>
        groups: lagg
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        status: active
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

using this config:

    ifconfig_ixl0="up -lro -tso -rxcsum -txcsum"  (tried different options - got the same outcome)
    ifconfig_ixl1="up -lro -tso -rxcsum -txcsum"
    ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto failover laggport ixl0 laggport ixl1 10.10.10.92/24"


We have randomly picked `ixl0` and restricted number of RX/TX queues to 1:
    /boot/loader.conf :
    dev.ixl.0.iflib.override_ntxqs=1
    dev.ixl.0.iflib.override_nrxqs=1

leaving `ixl1` with a default number, matching number of cores (6).


    ixl0: <Intel(R) Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ - 2.1.0-k> mem 0xf8800000-0xf8ffffff,0xf9808000-0xf980ffff irq 40 at device 0.0 on pci4
    ixl0: fw 5.0.40043 api 1.5 nvm 5.05 etid 80002927 oem 1.261.0
    ixl0: PF-ID[0]: VFs 64, MSI-X 129, VF MSI-X 5, QPs 768, I2C
    ixl0: Using 1024 TX descriptors and 1024 RX descriptors
    ixl0: Using 1 RX queues 1 TX queues
    ixl0: Using MSI-X interrupts with 2 vectors
    ixl0: Ethernet address: 3c:fd:fe:aa:60:20
    ixl0: Allocating 1 queues for PF LAN VSI; 1 queues active
    ixl0: PCI Express Bus: Speed 8.0GT/s Width x4
    ixl0: SR-IOV ready
    ixl0: netmap queues/slots: TX 1/1024, RX 1/1024
    ixl1: <Intel(R) Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ - 2.1.0-k> mem 0xf8000000-0xf87fffff,0xf9800000-0xf9807fff irq 40 at device 0.1 on pci4
    ixl1: fw 5.0.40043 api 1.5 nvm 5.05 etid 80002927 oem 1.261.0
    ixl1: PF-ID[1]: VFs 64, MSI-X 129, VF MSI-X 5, QPs 768, I2C
    ixl1: Using 1024 TX descriptors and 1024 RX descriptors
    ixl1: Using 6 RX queues 6 TX queues
    ixl1: Using MSI-X interrupts with 7 vectors
    ixl1: Ethernet address: 3c:fd:fe:aa:60:21
    ixl1: Allocating 8 queues for PF LAN VSI; 6 queues active
    ixl1: PCI Express Bus: Speed 8.0GT/s Width x4
    ixl1: SR-IOV ready
    ixl1: netmap queues/slots: TX 6/1024, RX 6/1024


This allowed us easy switch between different configurations without
the need to reboot, by simply shutting down one interface or the other:

    `ifconfig XXX down`

When testing `ixl0` that runs only a single queue:
    ixl0: Using 1 RX queues 1 TX queues
    ixl0: netmap queues/slots: TX 1/1024, RX 1/1024

we've got these results:

`wrk -c 10 --header "Connection: close" -d 10 -t 1 --latency http://10.10.10.92:80/missing`
Running 10s test @ http://10.10.10.92:80/missing
  1 threads and 10 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency   281.31us  297.74us  22.66ms   99.70%
    Req/Sec    19.91k     2.79k   21.25k    97.59%
  Latency Distribution
     50%  266.00us
     75%  309.00us
     90%  374.00us
     99%  490.00us
  164440 requests in 10.02s, 47.52MB read
  Socket errors: read 0, write 0, timeout 0
  Non-2xx or 3xx responses: 164440
Requests/sec:  16412.09
Transfer/sec:      4.74MB


When testing `ixl1` that runs 6 queues:
    ixl1: Using 6 RX queues 6 TX queues
    ixl1: netmap queues/slots: TX 6/1024, RX 6/1024

we've got these results:

`wrk -c 10 --header "Connection: close" -d 10 -t 1 --latency http://10.10.10.92:80/missing`
Running 10s test @ http://10.10.10.92:80/missing
  1 threads and 10 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency   216.16us   71.97us 511.00us   47.56%
    Req/Sec     4.34k     2.76k   15.44k    83.17%
  Latency Distribution
     50%  216.00us
     75%  276.00us
     90%  312.00us
     99%  365.00us
  43616 requests in 10.10s, 12.60MB read
  Socket errors: connect 0, read 24, write 8, timeout 0
  Non-2xx or 3xx responses: 43616
Requests/sec:   4318.26
Transfer/sec:      1.25MB

Do note, that, not only multiple queues cause issues they also dramatically  
decrease the performance of the network. 

Using `sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.ts_offset_per_conn=0` didn't help at all.

Best regards,
-Paul



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