+1, the aggregate RX rate seems to be around 12 KPPS, the vector rate is small. 
Absent I/O silliness, one core should handle this load with no problem.

D.

From: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io <vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> On Behalf Of Damjan Marion via 
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Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 4:27 PM
To: chakravarthy.arise...@viasat.com
Cc: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io
Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] tx-errors on VPP controlled dpdk device


In VPP packet stays on the same core where it is received in majority of cases.
Handing over packet to different core is performance expensive process and we 
are trying to avoid it.
You likely need to utilise RSS on rx side to equally load your cores,
but in this specific case VPP is not overloaded, your vector rate is ~2....

--
Damjan


On 1 Aug 2018, at 20:22, 
chakravarthy.arise...@viasat.com<mailto:chakravarthy.arise...@viasat.com> wrote:

Hi Damjan,

Thanks for your feedback. I'm running the test in AWS instances. Thus, I have 
got only VFs. I do not have access to PF. So, I'm trying to get help from AWS 
to find out.
Once I get the info, I'll post it over here. In the mean time, I looked at the 
counters that you suggested me to focus on. It looks like the packets are 
scheduled on only one core in transmit direction. Is there a way to change?

I have 3 dedicated cores (1 main core thread for stats/mgmt and 2 cores for the 
worker threads). All the Tx queues are pinned to worker thread 1. So, worker 
thread 2 is not used for transmit path at all. Is there way to spread the 
transmit queues across the threads?

Thanks
Chakri
vpp# sh threads
ID     Name                Type            LWP    Sched Policy (Priority)  
lcore  Core   Socket State
0      vpp_main                              1733    other (0)                1 
     1      0
1      vpp_wk_0            workers     1745    other (0)                2      
2      0
2      vpp_wk_1            workers     1746    other (0)                3      
3      0
3                                   stats         1747    other (0)             
   0      0      0

vpp# sh run
Thread 0 vpp_main (lcore 1)
Time 5125.9, average vectors/node 0.00, last 128 main loops 0.00 per node 0.00
  vector rates in 0.0000e0, out 0.0000e0, drop 0.0000e0, punt 0.0000e0
             Name                 State         Calls          Vectors        
Suspends         Clocks       Vectors/Call
api-rx-from-ring                any wait                 0               0      
       364          1.19e4            0.00
cdp-process                     any wait                 0               0      
       992          1.98e3            0.00
dhcp-client-process             any wait                 0               0      
        51          3.41e3            0.00
dns-resolver-process            any wait                 0               0      
         5          4.06e3            0.00
dpdk-process                    any wait                 0               0      
      1709          5.13e4            0.00
fib-walk                        any wait                 0               0      
      2563          1.37e3            0.00
ikev2-manager-process           any wait                 0               0      
      5124          7.25e2            0.00
ip-route-resolver-process       any wait                 0               0      
        51          2.64e3            0.00
ip4-reassembly-expire-walk      any wait                 0               0      
       513          3.85e3            0.00
ip6-icmp-neighbor-discovery-ev  any wait                 0               0      
      5124          6.92e2            0.00
ip6-reassembly-expire-walk      any wait                 0               0      
       513          3.84e3            0.00
lisp-retry-service              any wait                 0               0      
      2563          1.57e3            0.00
memif-process                   any wait                 0               0      
      1709          2.10e3            0.00
rd-cp-process                   any wait                 0               0      
 237212380          3.21e2            0.00
unix-cli-local:17                active                  0               0      
       580          2.05e5            0.00
unix-epoll-input                 polling          96172305               0      
         0          1.19e4            0.00
vpe-oam-process                 any wait                 0               0      
      2513          1.23e3            0.00
---------------
Thread 1 vpp_wk_0 (lcore 2)
Time 5125.9, average vectors/node 4.82, last 128 main loops 0.00 per node 0.00
  vector rates in 9.5578e3, out 8.4052e3, drop 0.0000e0, punt 0.0000e0
             Name                 State         Calls          Vectors        
Suspends         Clocks       Vectors/Call
VirtualFunctionEthernet0/6/0-o   active                 91              91      
         0          8.59e2            1.00
VirtualFunctionEthernet0/6/0-t   active                 91              91      
         0          2.82e3            1.00
VirtualFunctionEthernet0/7/0-o   active            5334164        32661561      
         0          4.33e1            6.12
VirtualFunctionEthernet0/7/0-t   active            5334164        26753703      
         0          3.83e2            5.02
arp-input                        active                182             182      
         0          7.25e3            1.00
dpdk-input                       polling       16550217513        16330917      
         0          4.05e5            0.00
ethernet-input                   active            5334255        32661652      
         0          7.97e1            6.12
interface-output                 active                182             182      
         0          6.58e2            1.00
ip4-input                        active            4685453        16330735      
         0          9.48e1            3.49
ip4-load-balance                 active            5334073        32661470      
         0          4.85e1            6.12
ip4-local                        active            4685453        16330735      
         0          9.92e1            3.49
ip4-lookup                       active            4685453        16330735      
         0          1.05e2            3.49
ip4-rewrite                      active            5334073        32661470      
         0          5.57e1            6.12
ip4-udp-lookup                   active            4685453        16330735      
         0          8.96e1            3.49
l2-fwd                           active           10019526        48992205      
         0          5.56e1            4.89
l2-input                         active           10019526        48992205      
         0          6.03e1            4.89
l2-learn                         active           10019526        48992205      
         0          6.75e1            4.89
l2-output                        active           10019526        48992205      
         0          6.16e1            4.89
memif-input                      polling       16550217513        32661470      
         0          2.33e5            0.00
unix-epoll-input                 polling           1817493               0      
         0          1.18e4            0.00
vxlan4-encap                     active            5334073        32661470      
         0          1.09e2            6.12
vxlan4-input                     active            4685453        16330735      
         0          1.19e2            3.49
memif1/1-output                  active            4685453        16330735      
         0          1.34e2            3.49
memif1/1-tx                      active            4685453        16330735      
         0          1.53e3            3.49
---------------
Thread 2 vpp_wk_1 (lcore 3)
Time 5125.9, average vectors/node 1.67, last 128 main loops 0.00 per node 0.00
  vector rates in 3.1859e3, out 3.1859e3, drop 0.0000e0, punt 0.0000e0
             Name                 State         Calls          Vectors        
Suspends         Clocks       Vectors/Call
dpdk-input                       polling       16679496489        16330735      
         0          4.24e5            0.00
ip4-input                        active            9785099        16330735      
         0          1.47e2            1.67
ip4-local                        active            9785099        16330735      
         0          1.33e2            1.67
ip4-lookup                       active            9785099        16330735      
         0          1.25e2            1.67
ip4-udp-lookup                   active            9785099        16330735      
         0          1.18e2            1.67
l2-fwd                           active            9785099        16330735      
         0          1.06e2            1.67
l2-input                         active            9785099        16330735      
         0          1.32e2            1.67
l2-learn                         active            9785099        16330735      
         0          1.31e2            1.67
l2-output                        active            9785099        16330735      
         0          9.05e1            1.67
memif-input                      polling       16679496489               0      
         0          4.38e2            0.00
unix-epoll-input                 polling           1130721               0      
         0          1.14e4            0.00
vxlan4-input                     active            9785099        16330735      
         0          1.45e2            1.67
memif1/1-output                  active            9785099        16330735      
         0          1.01e2            1.67
memif1/1-tx                      active            9785099        16330735      
         0          2.09e3            1.67

vpp# sh hardware                                                                
                                              [80/1816]
              Name                Idx   Link  Hardware
VirtualFunctionEthernet0/6/0       1     up   VirtualFunctionEthernet0/6/0
  Ethernet address 06:3a:20:ff:aa:d0
  AWS ENA VF
    carrier up full duplex speed 10000 mtu 9216
    rx queues 2, rx desc 1024, tx queues 3, tx desc 1024
    cpu socket 0

    tx frames ok                                           2
    tx bytes ok                                           84
    rx frames ok                                    21146632
    rx bytes ok                                  33665435044
    extended stats:
      rx good packets                               21146632
      tx good packets                                      2
      rx good bytes                              33665435044
      tx good bytes                                       84
VirtualFunctionEthernet0/7/0       2     up   VirtualFunctionEthernet0/7/0
  Ethernet address 06:90:5e:ca:8f:6c
  AWS ENA VF
    carrier up full duplex speed 10000 mtu 9216
    rx queues 2, rx desc 1024, tx queues 3, tx desc 1024
    cpu socket 0

    tx frames ok                                    17322383
    tx bytes ok                                  27577230636
    rx frames ok                                           2
    rx bytes ok                                           84
    extended stats:
      rx good packets                                      2
      tx good packets                               17322383
      rx good bytes                                       84
      tx good bytes                              27577230636
local0                             0    down  local0
  local
loop1                              3     up   loop1
  Ethernet address de:ad:00:00:00:01
loop2                              5     up   loop2
  Ethernet address de:ad:00:00:00:02
memif1/1                           7     up   memif1/1
  Ethernet address 02:fe:95:70:02:bc
  MEMIF interface
     instance 0
memif2/2                           8     up   memif2/2
  Ethernet address 02:fe:6d:04:8f:40
  MEMIF interface
     instance 1
vxlan_tunnel1                      4     up   vxlan_tunnel1
  VXLAN
vxlan_tunnel2                      6     up   vxlan_tunnel2
  VXLAN
vpp# show int
              Name               Idx       State          Counter          Count
VirtualFunctionEthernet0/6/0      1         up       rx packets              
21146633
                                                     rx bytes             
33665435086
                                                     tx packets                 
    3
                                                     tx bytes                   
  126
                                                     ip4                     
21146630
VirtualFunctionEthernet0/7/0      2         up       rx packets                 
    3
                                                     rx bytes                   
  126
                                                     tx packets              
21146633
                                                     tx bytes             
33665435086
                                                     tx-error                 
3824249
local0                            0         up
loop1                             3         up
loop2                             5         up
memif1/1                          7         up       tx packets              
21146630
                                                     tx bytes             
32608103460
memif2/2                          8         up       rx packets              
21146630
                                                     rx bytes             
32608103460
vxlan_tunnel1                     4         up       rx packets              
21146630
                                                     rx bytes             
32608103460
vxlan_tunnel2                     6         up       tx packets              
21146630
                                                     tx bytes             
33369382140
vpp# show error
   Count                    Node                  Reason
 120878944              vxlan4-input              good packets decapsulated
 241757861              vxlan4-encap              good packets encapsulated
 362636805                l2-output               L2 output packets
 362636805                l2-learn                L2 learn packets
 362636805                l2-input                L2 input packets
      2616                arp-input               ARP replies sent
         8                arp-input               ARP probe or announcement 
dropped
  18841192     VirtualFunctionEthernet0/7/0-tx    Tx packet drops (dpdk tx 
failure)
 120878917              vxlan4-input              good packets decapsulated
 120878917                l2-output               L2 output packets
 120878917                l2-learn                L2 learn packets
 120878917                l2-input                L2 input packets

Startup config snippet
=================
        dev 0000:00:06.0 {
                num-rx-queues 2
                num-rx-desc 1024
                num-tx-desc 1024
        }

        dev 0000:00:07.0 {
                num-rx-queues 2
                num-rx-desc 1024
                num-tx-desc 1024
        }
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