From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
"alialnu@mellanox.com" <alialnu@mellanox.com>,
"orgerlitz@mellanox.com" <orgerlitz@mellanox.com>,
"wenzhuo.lu@intel.com" <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>,
"beilei.xing@intel.com" <beilei.xing@intel.com>,
"bernard.iremonger@intel.com" <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Cc: "hemant.agrawal@nxp.com" <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
"jerinj@marvell.com" <jerinj@marvell.com>,
"viacheslavo@mellanox.com" <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>,
"thomas@monjalon.net" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com>,
Phil Yang <Phil.Yang@arm.com>, nd <nd@arm.com>,
"zhihong.wang@intel.com" <zhihong.wang@intel.com>,
"stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] app/testpmd: clock gettime call in throughput calculation
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 18:19:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a98ecd02-f490-9140-ec4f-f5b2837b83e9@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB6PR0802MB22169EA1BAD32CA99EFC543398690@DB6PR0802MB2216.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>
On 7/6/2020 5:53 PM, Honnappa Nagarahalli wrote:
> Hi Ferruh,
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> <snip>
>
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] app/testpmd: clock gettime call in throughput
>> calculation
>>
>> On 6/26/2020 11:09 PM, Honnappa Nagarahalli wrote:
>>> The throughput calculation requires a counter that measures passing of
>>> time. However, the kernel saves and restores the PMU state when a
>>> thread is unscheduled and scheduled. This ensures that the PMU cycles
>>> are not counted towards a thread that is not scheduled. Hence, when
>>> RTE_ARM_EAL_RDTSC_USE_PMU is enabled, the PMU cycles do not
>> represent
>>> the passing of time.
>>
>> Does this mean 'rte_rdtsc()' is broken for Arm?
> It depends on the kernel I think. IMO, for isolated CPUs it should be fine. It is currently getting fixed through a kernel patch. Once the kernel patch is up streamed, we will make the required changes in DPDK.
>
>> Wouldn't it cause more serious issue than testpmd throughput stats?
> Within DPDK, it does not seem to be used for anything critical (I have fixed one).
OK, thanks for clarification.
>
>>
>>> This results in incorrect calculation of throughput numbers.
>>> Use clock_gettime system call to calculate the time passed since last
>>> call.
>>>
>>> Bugzilla ID: 450
>>> Fixes: 0e106980301d ("app/testpmd: show throughput in port stats")
>>> Cc: zhihong.wang@intel.com
>>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
>>> Tested-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
>>> Tested-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@mellanox.com>
>>
>> <...>
>>
>>> @@ -195,10 +204,17 @@ nic_stats_display(portid_t port_id)
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> - diff_cycles = prev_cycles[port_id];
>>> - prev_cycles[port_id] = rte_rdtsc();
>>> - if (diff_cycles > 0)
>>> - diff_cycles = prev_cycles[port_id] - diff_cycles;
>>> + diff_ns = 0;
>>> + if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_TYPE_ID, &cur_time) == 0) {
>>
>> I guess 'rte_rdtsc()' is faster, but since this is not in the data path, I think it is
>> OK.
>>
>> <...>
>>
>>> @@ -217,10 +233,10 @@ nic_stats_display(portid_t port_id)
>>> (stats.obytes - prev_bytes_tx[port_id]) : 0;
>>> prev_bytes_rx[port_id] = stats.ibytes;
>>> prev_bytes_tx[port_id] = stats.obytes;
>>> - mbps_rx = diff_cycles > 0 ?
>>> - diff_bytes_rx * rte_get_tsc_hz() / diff_cycles : 0;
>>> - mbps_tx = diff_cycles > 0 ?
>>> - diff_bytes_tx * rte_get_tsc_hz() / diff_cycles : 0;
>>> + mbps_rx = diff_ns > 0 ?
>>> + (double)diff_bytes_rx / diff_ns * NS_PER_SEC : 0;
>>> + mbps_tx = diff_ns > 0 ?
>>> + (double)diff_bytes_tx / diff_ns * NS_PER_SEC : 0;
>>
>> The calculation also fixes other issue in the stats.
>> With previous method, if the sampling between two stats is a little long,
>> "diff_pkts_rx * rte_get_tsc_hz()" can overflow and produce wrong 'bps'.
>>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-06 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-17 14:43 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH " Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-06-17 14:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/5] app/testpmd: enable burst stats for flowgen mode rx path Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-06-18 14:57 ` Phil Yang
2020-06-17 14:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] app/testpmd: enable burst stats for noisy vnf mode Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-06-18 7:16 ` Jens Freimann
2020-06-17 14:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/5] app/testpmd: fix burst percentage calculation Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-06-18 15:01 ` Phil Yang
2020-06-23 13:33 ` Ali Alnubani
2020-06-17 14:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] app/testpmd: enable empty polls in burst stats Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-06-18 15:05 ` Phil Yang
2020-06-23 13:34 ` Ali Alnubani
2020-06-17 15:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] app/testpmd: clock gettime call in throughput calculation Jerin Jacob
2020-06-18 4:03 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-06-18 10:16 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-06-18 15:08 ` Phil Yang
2020-06-23 13:33 ` Ali Alnubani
2020-06-26 22:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-06-26 22:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/5] app/testpmd: enable burst stats for flowgen mode rx path Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-06 16:02 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-07-06 17:06 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-06 17:17 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-07-06 18:46 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-06-26 22:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/5] app/testpmd: enable burst stats for noisy vnf mode Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-06 16:08 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-07-06 16:59 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-06 17:11 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-07-06 17:41 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-06-26 22:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/5] app/testpmd: fix burst percentage calculation Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-06 16:10 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-06-26 22:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/5] app/testpmd: enable empty polls in burst stats Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-06 17:05 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-07-06 19:11 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-07 9:32 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-07-06 15:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] app/testpmd: clock gettime call in throughput calculation Ferruh Yigit
2020-07-06 16:53 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-06 17:19 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2020-07-06 23:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] " Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-06 23:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/3] app/testpmd: fix burst percentage calculation Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-06 23:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] app/testpmd: enable empty polls in burst stats Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-07 17:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] app/testpmd: clock gettime call in throughput calculation Ferruh Yigit
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