On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 7:39 PM, Lorenzo Bianconi <
[email protected]> wrote:

> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 05:10:29PM +0100, Jakub Sitnicki wrote:
> >> Ben,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 09:54 PM GMT, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >> > Jakub Sitnicki demonstrated that repeatedly calculating row hashes is
> >> > expensive, so this should improve ovn-northd performance.
> >> >
> >> > Reported-by: Jakub Sitnicki <[email protected]>
> >> > Reported-at: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2018-
> February/344404.html
> >> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
> >> > ---
> >> >  ovn/lib/ovn-sb-idl.ann  | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >> >  ovn/lib/ovn-util.c      | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> >  ovn/lib/ovn-util.h      |  7 +++++++
> >> >  ovn/northd/ovn-northd.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
> >> >  4 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >> >
> >>
> >> With this series applied the total of CPU cycles consumed by northd and
> >> the per-function profile changes dramatically when running a simple
> >> benchmark of creating 15 lswitches, 100 lports per each lswitch.
> >>
> >> `perf stat` for ovn-northd looks like so:
> >>
> >> before:
> >>
> >>  Performance counter stats for process id '7091':
> >>
> >>       85263.043641      task-clock (msec)         #    0.843 CPUs
> utilized
> >>              9,859      context-switches          #    0.116 K/sec
> >>                575      cpu-migrations            #    0.007 K/sec
> >>              2,243      page-faults               #    0.026 K/sec
> >>    225,663,620,029      cycles                    #    2.647 GHz
> >>    302,290,105,647      instructions              #    1.34  insn per
> cycle
> >>     53,556,381,940      branches                  #  628.131 M/sec
> >>        435,374,510      branch-misses             #    0.81% of all
> branches
> >>
> >>      101.202109604 seconds time elapsed
> >>
> >> after:
> >>
> >>  Performance counter stats for process id '25306':
> >>
> >>       50362.124282      task-clock (msec)         #    0.474 CPUs
> utilized
> >>              5,120      context-switches          #    0.102 K/sec
> >>              1,025      cpu-migrations            #    0.020 K/sec
> >>              9,546      page-faults               #    0.190 K/sec
> >>    134,756,308,237      cycles                    #    2.676 GHz
> >>    154,810,279,583      instructions              #    1.15  insn per
> cycle
> >>     27,350,003,179      branches                  #  543.067 M/sec
> >>        216,219,142      branch-misses             #    0.79% of all
> branches
> >>
> >>      106.207558198 seconds time elapsed
> >>
> >> CPU time spent in ovn_lflow_find becomes insignificant (<0.1%) after the
> >> changes, so instead let's look at the total cycles spent processing NBDB
> >> contents:
> >>
> >>   Children      Self  Command     Shared Object       Symbol
> >> before:
> >>     75.95%     0.01%  ovn-northd  ovn-northd          [.] ovnnb_db_run
> >> after:
> >>      8.55%     0.02%  ovn-northd  ovn-northd          [.] ovnnb_db_run
> >>
> >> Honestly, I am not sure where the huge boost comes from. I need to read
> >> through the changes more closely. Feel free to add my:
> >>
> >> Tested-by: Jakub Sitnicki <[email protected]>
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the testing.  Please do feel free to continue reading
> > the patch series.  I am also surprised that there was so much impact--I
> > guess that hashing text strings is really expensive!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ben.
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> Hi Ben,
>
> working on automatic test support for OVN ACL reject action I
> discovered this commit breaks some ovn.at tests.
> In particular:
> - 2371: ovn -- dns lookup : 1 HV, 2 LS, 2 LSPs/LS
> - 2374: ovn -- 1 LR with distributed router gateway port
>
> I run git bisect on the current master branch (commit 430d7d156).
> Numan reproduced same issues.
> I guess they are probably timing issues
>
>
Thanks Lorenzo. I am looking into these failures.

Numan


> Regards,
> Lorenzo
>
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