Yes please provide /proc/net/pf_ring/<pid> and ethtool -S <interface>

Alfredo

> On 29 Mar 2018, at 09:15, Chandrika Gautam <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alfredo,
> 
> Yes I am quite sure that this is due to fragmentation logic in kernel not in 
> application.
>  We have one deployment where fragmentation logic is enabled in application 
> but we do not see any drops in pf_ring statistics also.
> 
> Will output of  /proc/net/pf_ring/<pid> be enough ? Are you looking for some 
> other statistics?
> 
> Regards,
> Chandrika
> 
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 2:23 PM, Alfredo Cardigliano <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi Gautam
> pf_ring leverages on the linux kernel defragmentation support, thus we cannot 
> do much on our side for that,
> I see that your application is not exceeding 30% of cpu usage, are you sure 
> you do not have spikes that are
> hard to detect and your application cannot keep up with processing? Please 
> provide pf_ring statistics in order
> to figure out if packet loss is at kernel level or application level.
> 
> Alfredo
> 
>> On 20 Mar 2018, at 05:19, Chandrika Gautam <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Alfredo,
>> 
>> Yes its a standard driver (Intel 82599 10 G) and server is hpdl380g9 
>> servers(cpu clock speed 2GHz ).
>> 
>> We have another deployment in which fragmentation logic is enabled in 
>> applications(g8 2.9 GHz) and we are not observing a drop in pf_ring stats.
>> 
>> How can we prove this to customer that enabling fragmentation in pf_ring 
>> kernel could be causing this?
>> Or can we tune ipfrag related parameters to support more number of 
>> fragmented packets.
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:51 PM, Alfredo Cardigliano <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Hi Gautam
>> I guess you are using standard drivers, with defragmentation enabled in the 
>> pf_ring kernel module,
>> in that case if you have many fragments, at that rate, that could slow down 
>> the processing. Did you
>> try disabling defragmentation to figure out if the bottleneck is there?
>> 
>> Regards
>> Alfredo
>> 
>> > On 19 Mar 2018, at 06:35, Chandrika Gautam <[email protected] 
>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > We are observing some intermittent drops in pf_ring statistics in one of 
>> > the production sites. I need your valuable inputs to debug this issue.
>> >
>> > Brief description of the setup is -
>> >
>> > Fragmentation is enabled at kernel level. Traffic at site is varying from 
>> > 500Mbps to 1 Gbps. We have observed cpu usage per thread of our 
>> > application and it is not exceeding ~20-30 percent and there are no alarms 
>> > raised by applications.
>> > So I am suspecting whether kernel fragmentation logic could slow down the 
>> > processing and causing pf_ring to drop these packets. Can you please 
>> > confirm whether this can cause the drop ?If yes, How shall we debug this 
>> > issue.
>> > Please let me know if you need any data from the sites.
>> >
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Gautam
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