From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Cc: <bruce.richardson@intel.com>, "Ian Stokes" <ian.stokes@intel.com>,
<dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: rte_eth_stats_get seems slow
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:23:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250426082352.260b9b5d@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35E9FC02@smartserver.smartshare.dk>
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:52:55 +0200
Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com> wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> rte_eth_stats_get() on Intel NICs seems slow to me.
>
> E.g. getting the stats on a single port takes ~132 us (~451,000 CPU cycles) using the igb driver, and ~50 us using the i40e driver.
>
> Referring to the igb driver source code [1], it's 44 calls to E1000_READ_REG(), so the math says that each one takes 3 us (~10,000 CPU cycles).
>
> Is this expected behavior?
>
> It adds up, e.g. it takes a full millisecond to fetch the stats from eight ports using the igb driver.
>
> [1]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/dpdk/v24.11.1/source/drivers/net/e1000/igb_ethdev.c#L1724
>
>
> Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
> -Morten Brørup
>
Well reading each stat requires a PCI access. And PCI accesses are non-cached.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-26 15:23 UTC|newest]
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2025-04-25 11:52 Morten Brørup
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2025-04-27 7:00 ` Morten Brørup
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