Hi,
On 02/13/12 09:50, W.C.A. Wijngaards wrote:
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Hi Attila,
On 02/12/2012 05:39 PM, Attila Nagy wrote:
Hi,
Not a new thing, and likely it's how the OS (FreeBSD) works -if
the listening socket is shared between threads and processes-, but
the number of queries are very unevenly distributed between
unbound threads/processes.
For a threaded unbound currently the QPSs are: thread0: 1.45k
thread1: 2.72k thread2: 3.97k
and for a multiprocess unbound: thread0: 1.16k thread1: 3.05k
thread2: 2.34k
Is it possible to make it more balanced on the application side?
Very interesting. I assume you have a quadcore, or a tricore :-)
Unbound simply listens to the port 53 socket. There is nothing else
it can do I think? Unless there are some secret socket options that
make FreeBSD do something like load-spreading?
If you want to force this issue, you could create firewall/pf rules
that rewrite incoming packets to three other port numbers (1053, 1054,
1055) and start unbound three times on port 1053, 1054, 1055. Make
sure you also rewrite the UDP replies back to sourceport 53. In this
case, then, I can do something on the software side, instead of
forcing you to run 3x unbound, some sort of option that makes unbound
have every process listen to its own port number could be create. But
this approach may be useless, perhaps the system does not do load
spreading because this queryamount (8k) is too low (it has a max of
300k?).
Well, I haven't read all the code, instead I ask.
Unbound comm_point_create_udp_ancil sets the callback, which I assume is
called when a new activity happens on the listening socket.
But who does this load balancing in a multi-threaded environment in this
specific case?
FreeBSD's kqueue, by having multiple entities (threads, their callbacks)
on the notification list? libev, which subscribes once and handles the
threads?
Or the socket code?
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