[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net v1] e1000e: Fix TSO not being disabled on i219-LM card

Paul Menzel pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de
Wed Dec 21 15:09:00 UTC 2022


Dear Mateusz,


Am 21.12.22 um 11:15 schrieb Palczewski, Mateusz:

> Thanks for your feedback, I will address all of the commit message and code
> issues in next version of the patch. Below I have added my testing results
> with and without the patch applied.

Thank you for your quick response.

>> How did you test the speed exactly?
>>
>> On a Dell Precision Tower 3620/0MWYPT, BIOS 2.22.0 07/13/2022, with
>>
>>      $ lspci -nn -s 00:1f.6
>>      00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-LM [8086:15b7] (rev 31)
>>
>> I get more than 60 % bandwidth with iperf3.
> 
> For my setup it is:
> 00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (3) I219-LM (rev 09)
> with Intel Skylake platform.

We have two devices with that device:

     00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet 
Connection (3) I219-LM [8086:15b9] (rev 09)

Over a “real” network it works as expected with full speed:

```
$ dmesg | grep DMI:
[    0.000000] DMI: Dell Inc. Precision 7920 Tower/060K5C, BIOS 2.14.0 
07/27/2021
@sirion:~$ iperf3 -c iperf3.molgen.mpg.de
Connecting to host iperf3.molgen.mpg.de, port 5201
[  5] local 141.14.19.105 port 35338 connected to 141.14.27.109 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   113 MBytes   951 Mbits/sec    0    560 KBytes 

[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   112 MBytes   944 Mbits/sec    0    560 KBytes 

[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   112 MBytes   944 Mbits/sec    0    560 KBytes 

[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   938 Mbits/sec    0    560 KBytes 

[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   944 Mbits/sec    0    560 KBytes 

[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   112 MBytes   938 Mbits/sec    0    560 KBytes 

[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   112 MBytes   944 Mbits/sec    0    560 KBytes 

[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   944 Mbits/sec    0    560 KBytes 

[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec    0    560 KBytes 

[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   944 Mbits/sec    0    560 KBytes 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   943 Mbits/sec    0             sender
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   941 Mbits/sec 
receiver

iperf Done.
```

>> ```
>> $ iperf3 -c iperf3.molgen.mpg.de
>> Connecting to host iperf3.molgen.mpg.de, port 5201
>> [  5] local 141.14.18.119 port 56092 connected to 141.14.27.109 port 5201
>> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
>> [  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   102 MBytes   859 Mbits/sec    0   1.07 MBytes
>> [  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  98.7 MBytes   828 Mbits/sec    0   1.13 MBytes
>> [  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  99.8 MBytes   837 Mbits/sec    0   1.13 MBytes
>> [  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  99.9 MBytes   838 Mbits/sec    0   1.13 MBytes
>> [  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  98.7 MBytes   828 Mbits/sec    0   1.13 MBytes
>> [  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  99.7 MBytes   836 Mbits/sec    0   1.13 MBytes
>> [  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  99.9 MBytes   838 Mbits/sec    0   1.13 MBytes
>> [  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  98.5 MBytes   826 Mbits/sec    0   1.13 MBytes
>> [  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   100 MBytes   838 Mbits/sec    0   1.13 MBytes
>> [  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  98.8 MBytes   829 Mbits/sec    0   1.13 MBytes
>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
>> [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   996 MBytes   836 Mbits/sec    0             sender
>> [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   994 MBytes   833 Mbits/sec                  receiver
>>
>> iperf Done.
>> ```
> 
> I have used iperf3 to test connection between two cards in the same server
> with usage of namespaces, here are my results:

Why do you need to use network namespaces, and, if you need to test it 
on the same server, why can’t you start `iperf3 --server` and run 
`iperf3 --client localhost` on the same server?

Please also provide the full instructions how to set your test 
environment up, as I failed to it.

> 1. Without the patch:
> ip netns exec test iperf3 -c 10.1.1.2
> Connecting to host 10.1.1.2, port 5201
> [  5] local 10.1.1.1 port 60690 connected to 10.1.1.2 port 5201
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
> [  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  81.8 MBytes   686 Mbits/sec    0    286 KBytes
> [  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  80.3 MBytes   674 Mbits/sec    0    286 KBytes
> [  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  80.3 MBytes   674 Mbits/sec    0    286 KBytes
> [  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  80.6 MBytes   676 Mbits/sec    0    286 KBytes
> [  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  80.5 MBytes   675 Mbits/sec    0    286 KBytes
> [  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  80.5 MBytes   676 Mbits/sec    0    286 KBytes
> [  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  80.7 MBytes   677 Mbits/sec    0    286 KBytes
> [  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  81.0 MBytes   680 Mbits/sec    0    286 KBytes
> [  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  80.7 MBytes   677 Mbits/sec    0    286 KBytes
> [  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  80.7 MBytes   677 Mbits/sec    0    286 KBytes
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
> [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   807 MBytes   677 Mbits/sec    0             sender
> [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   806 MBytes   676 Mbits/sec                  receiver
> 
> 
> 2. With the patch applied:
> ip netns exec test iperf3 -c 10.1.1.2
> Connecting to host 10.1.1.2, port 5201
> [  5] local 10.1.1.1 port 60686 connected to 10.1.1.2 port 5201
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
> [  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   113 MBytes   947 Mbits/sec    0    419 KBytes
> [  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    419 KBytes
> [  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   111 MBytes   928 Mbits/sec    0    419 KBytes
> [  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   936 Mbits/sec    0    419 KBytes
> [  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   111 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec    0    419 KBytes
> [  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   111 MBytes   934 Mbits/sec    0    419 KBytes
> [  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   112 MBytes   936 Mbits/sec    0    419 KBytes
> [  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   111 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec    0    419 KBytes
> [  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   111 MBytes   934 Mbits/sec    0    419 KBytes
> [  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   111 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec    0    419 KBytes
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
> [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   936 Mbits/sec    0             sender
> [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   934 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Please test it between two servers to rule out it has to do with network 
namespaces.


Kind regards,

Paul


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