[OmniOS-discuss] questions

Dirk Willems dirk.willems at exitas.be
Thu Sep 14 16:55:51 UTC 2017


Actuality have it test with this etherstub => NGINX_Switch0

But all the etherstub switches are created excellently the same

But idd on the etherstub the mtu on Default is standing on 1500 but the 
value is on 9000 so 9000 is in use ?


root at OmniOS:/root# dladm show-linkprop NGINX_Switch0
LINK         PROPERTY        PERM VALUE          DEFAULT POSSIBLE
NGINX_Switch0 autopush       rw   --             --             --
NGINX_Switch0 zone           rw   --             --             --
NGINX_Switch0 state          r-   up             up up,down
NGINX_Switch0 mtu            rw   9000           1500 576-9000
NGINX_Switch0 maxbw          rw   --             --             --
NGINX_Switch0 cpus           rw   --             --             --
NGINX_Switch0 cpus-effective r-   --             --             --
NGINX_Switch0 pool           rw   --             --             --
NGINX_Switch0 pool-effective r-   --             --             --
NGINX_Switch0 priority       rw   high           high low,medium,high
NGINX_Switch0 forward        rw   1              1 1,0
NGINX_Switch0 default_tag    rw   1              1              --
NGINX_Switch0 learn_limit    rw   1000           1000           --
NGINX_Switch0 learn_decay    rw   200            200            --
NGINX_Switch0 stp            rw   1              1 1,0
NGINX_Switch0 stp_priority   rw   128            128            --
NGINX_Switch0 stp_cost       rw   auto           auto           --
NGINX_Switch0 stp_edge       rw   1              1 1,0
NGINX_Switch0 stp_p2p        rw   auto           auto true,false,auto
NGINX_Switch0 stp_mcheck     rw   0              0 1,0
NGINX_Switch0 protection     rw   --             -- mac-nospoof,
restricted,
ip-nospoof,
dhcp-nospoof
NGINX_Switch0 allowed-ips    rw   --             --             --
NGINX_Switch0 allowed-dhcp-cids rw --            --             --
NGINX_Switch0 rxrings        rw   --             --             --
NGINX_Switch0 rxrings-effective r- --            --             --
NGINX_Switch0 txrings        rw   --             --             --
NGINX_Switch0 txrings-effective r- --            --             --
NGINX_Switch0 txrings-available r- 0             --             --
NGINX_Switch0 rxrings-available r- 0             --             --
NGINX_Switch0 rxhwclnt-available r- 0            --             --
NGINX_Switch0 txhwclnt-available r- 0            --             --
root at OmniOS:/root# dladm show-linkprop NGINX1
LINK         PROPERTY        PERM VALUE          DEFAULT POSSIBLE
NGINX1       autopush        rw   --             --             --
NGINX1       zone            rw   NGINX          --             --
NGINX1       state           r-   up             up up,down
NGINX1       mtu             rw   9000           9000 576-9000
NGINX1       secondary-macs  rw   --             --             --
NGINX1       maxbw           rw   --             --             --
NGINX1       cpus            rw   --             --             --
NGINX1       cpus-effective  r-   0,23           --             --
NGINX1       pool            rw   --             --             --
NGINX1       pool-effective  r-   --             --             --
NGINX1       priority        rw   high           high low,medium,high
NGINX1       tagmode         rw   vlanonly       vlanonly normal,vlanonly
NGINX1       protection      rw   ip-nospoof     -- mac-nospoof,
restricted,
ip-nospoof,
dhcp-nospoof
NGINX1       promisc-filtered rw  on             on off,on
NGINX1       allowed-ips     rw   192.168.20.3/32 --            --
NGINX1       allowed-dhcp-cids rw --             --             --
NGINX1       rxrings         rw   --             --             --
NGINX1       rxrings-effective r- --             --             --
NGINX1       txrings         rw   --             --             --
NGINX1       txrings-effective r- --             --             --
NGINX1       txrings-available r- 0              --             --
NGINX1       rxrings-available r- 0              --             --
NGINX1       rxhwclnt-available r- 0             --             --
NGINX1       txhwclnt-available r- 0             --             --
root at OmniOS:/root# dladm show-linkprop GNUHealth0
LINK         PROPERTY        PERM VALUE          DEFAULT POSSIBLE
GNUHealth0   autopush        rw   --             --             --
GNUHealth0   zone            rw   GNUHealth      --             --
GNUHealth0   state           r-   up             up up,down
GNUHealth0   mtu             rw   9000           9000 576-9000
GNUHealth0   secondary-macs  rw   --             --             --
GNUHealth0   maxbw           rw   --             --             --
GNUHealth0   cpus            rw   --             --             --
GNUHealth0   cpus-effective  r-   21-22          --             --
GNUHealth0   pool            rw   --             --             --
GNUHealth0   pool-effective  r-   --             --             --
GNUHealth0   priority        rw   high           high low,medium,high
GNUHealth0   tagmode         rw   vlanonly       vlanonly normal,vlanonly
GNUHealth0   protection      rw   ip-nospoof     -- mac-nospoof,
restricted,
ip-nospoof,
dhcp-nospoof
GNUHealth0   promisc-filtered rw  on             on off,on
GNUHealth0   allowed-ips     rw   192.168.20.5/32 --            --
GNUHealth0   allowed-dhcp-cids rw --             --             --
GNUHealth0   rxrings         rw   --             --             --
GNUHealth0   rxrings-effective r- --             --             --
GNUHealth0   txrings         rw   --             --             --
GNUHealth0   txrings-effective r- --             --             --
GNUHealth0   txrings-available r- 0              --             --
GNUHealth0   rxrings-available r- 0              --             --
GNUHealth0   rxhwclnt-available r- 0             --             --
GNUHealth0   txhwclnt-available r- 0             --             --
root at OmniOS:/root#


On 14-09-17 18:46, Ian Kaufman wrote:
> What about the attached vnics?
>
> Can you do:
>
> dladm show-linkprop vnic# for the vnics connected to the etherstub? 
> There may be a maxbw setting ...
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Dirk Willems <dirk.willems at exitas.be 
> <mailto:dirk.willems at exitas.be>> wrote:
>
>     just execute => dladm create-etherstub Backend_Switch0
>
>
>     and having => Backend_Switch0 etherstub 9000 up
>
>
>     On 14-09-17 18:26, Ian Kaufman wrote:
>>     Networking has always used *bps - that's been the standard for
>>     many years. Megabits, Gigabits ...
>>
>>     Disk tools have always measured in bytes since that is how the
>>     capacity is defined.
>>
>>     How did you create your etherstub? I know you can set a maxbw
>>     (maximum bandiwdth), but I don't know what the default behavior is.
>>
>>     Ian
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Dirk Willems
>>     <dirk.willems at exitas.be <mailto:dirk.willems at exitas.be>> wrote:
>>
>>         Thank you all,  the water is already clearing up :)
>>
>>
>>         So infiniband is 40 Gbps an not 40GB/s, very confusing GB/s
>>         Gbps why they not take a standaard and set everything in GB/s
>>         or MB/s ?
>>
>>         A lot of people make a lot of mistakes between them, me too ...
>>
>>         If it is 40 Gbps a factor of 8 then we theoretical have max 5
>>         GB/s throughput.
>>
>>         Little difference 40 or 5 :)
>>
>>         So Ian you have the full blow with 36Gbps very cool looks
>>         more like it  :)
>>
>>         Did I play with the frame size, not really sure what you mean
>>         by that sorry but I think its default on 9000
>>
>>         Backend_Switch0 etherstub 9000 up
>>
>>
>>         Do understand that if we use UDP streams from process to
>>         process it will be much quicker over the etherstub gonna need
>>         more test to do.
>>
>>         We used for a customer Mbuffer with zfs send over Lan that is
>>         also very quick sometimes I also use it at my home very good
>>         prog.
>>
>>         But still do not understand how it is that I copy from 1 NGZ
>>         with 100MB/s, I receive on the other NGZ 250MB/s  very strange ?
>>
>>
>>         the command dlstat difference between OmniOSce and Solaris ?
>>
>>         RBYTES => receiving
>>
>>         OBYTES => sending
>>
>>         root at test2:~# dlstat -i 2
>>         >
>>         >  LINK    IPKTS   RBYTES    OPKTS  OBYTES
>>         >            net1   25.76K 185.14M 10.08K    2.62M
>>         >            net1   27.04K  187.16M  11.23K    3.22M
>>
>>
>>
>>         BYTES => receiving and sending ?
>>
>>         But then still if the copy is not running I have 0 so doesn't
>>         explain why I see 216 MB where come the rest of the 116 MB
>>         from is it compression ?
>>
>>         root at NGINX:/root# dlstat show-link NGINX1 -i 2
>>         >
>>         >  LINK  TYPE      ID  INDEX  PKTS    BYTES
>>         >          NGINX1    rx   bcast  --        0        0
>>         >          NGINX1    rx      sw  --        0        0
>>         >          NGINX1    tx   bcast  --        0        0
>>         >          NGINX1    tx      sw  --    9.26K  692.00K
>>         >          NGINX1    rx   local  --   26.00K 216.32M
>>
>>
>>         Thank you all for your feedback much appreciations !
>>
>>
>>         Kind Regards,
>>
>>
>>         Dirk
>>
>>
>>
>>         On 14-09-17 17:07, Ian Kaufman wrote:
>>>         Some other things you need to take into account:
>>>
>>>         QDR Infiniband is 40Gbps, not 40GB/s. That is a factor of 8
>>>         difference. That is also a theoretical maximum throughput,
>>>         there is some overhead. In reality, you will never see 40Gbps.
>>>
>>>         My system tested out at 6Gbps - 8Gbps using NFS over IPoIB,
>>>         with DDR (20Gbps) nodes and a QDR (40Gbps) storage server.
>>>         IPoIB drops the theoretical max rates to 18Gbps and 36Gbps
>>>         respectively.
>>>
>>>         If you are getting 185MB/s, you are seeing 1.48Gbps.
>>>
>>>         Keep your B's and b's straight. Did you play with your frame
>>>         size at all?
>>>
>>>         Ian
>>>
>>>         On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Jim Klimov
>>>         <jimklimov at cos.ru <mailto:jimklimov at cos.ru>> wrote:
>>>
>>>             On September 14, 2017 2:26:13 PM GMT+02:00, Dirk Willems
>>>             <dirk.willems at exitas.be <mailto:dirk.willems at exitas.be>>
>>>             wrote:
>>>             >Hello,
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >I'm trying to understand something let me explain.
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >Oracle always told to me that if you create a etherstub
>>>             switch it has
>>>             >infiniband speed 40GB/s.
>>>             >
>>>             >But I have a customer running on Solaris (Yeah I know
>>>             but let me
>>>             >explain) who is copy from 1 NGZ to another NGZ on the
>>>             same GZ over Lan
>>>             >(I know told him to to use etherstub).
>>>             >
>>>             >The copy witch is performed for a Oracle database with
>>>             sql command, the
>>>             >
>>>             >DBA witch have 5 streams say it's waiting on the disk,
>>>             the disk are 50
>>>             >-
>>>             >60 % busy the speed is 30 mb/s.
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >So I did some test just to see and understand if it's
>>>             the database or
>>>             >the system, but with doing my tests I get very confused ???
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >On another Solaris at my work copy over etherstub
>>>             switch => copy speed
>>>             >is 185MB/s expected much more of infiniband speed ???
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >root at test1:/export/home/Admin# scp test10G
>>>             >Admin at 192.168.1.2:/export/
>>>             <mailto:Admin at 192.168.1.2:/export/>home/Admin/
>>>             >Password:
>>>             >test10G 100%
>>>             >|****************************************************************|
>>>             >10240
>>>             >MB    00:59
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >root at test2:~# dlstat -i 2
>>>             >
>>>             >  LINK    IPKTS  RBYTES    OPKTS   OBYTES
>>>             >            net1  25.76K 185.14M 10.08K 2.62M
>>>             >            net1  27.04K  187.16M   11.23K 3.22M
>>>             >            net1  26.97K  186.37M   11.24K 3.23M
>>>             >            net1  26.63K  187.67M   10.82K 2.99M
>>>             >            net1  27.94K  186.65M   12.17K 3.75M
>>>             >            net1  27.45K  187.46M   11.70K 3.47M
>>>             >            net1  26.01K  181.95M   10.63K 2.99M
>>>             >            net1  27.95K  188.19M   12.14K 3.69M
>>>             >            net1  27.91K  188.36M   12.08K 3.64M
>>>             >
>>>             >The disks are all separate luns with all separated
>>>             pools => disk are 20
>>>             >
>>>             >- 30% busy
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >On my OmniOSce at my lab over etherstub
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >root at GNUHealth:~# scp test10G
>>>             witte at 192.168.20.3:/export/
>>>             <mailto:witte at 192.168.20.3:/export/>home/witte/
>>>             >Password:
>>>             >test10G 76% 7853MB 116.4MB/s
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >=> copy is 116.4 MB/s => expected much more from
>>>             infiniband speed is
>>>             >just the same as Lan ???
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >Is not that my disk can not follow 17% busy there
>>>             sleeping ...
>>>             >
>>>             >    extended device statistics
>>>             >     r/s    w/s   Mr/s  Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t 
>>>             %w  %b device
>>>             >     0,0  248,4    0,0   2,1  0,0  1,3    0,0 5,3   0
>>>             102 c1
>>>             >    0,0   37,5    0,0 0,7  0,0  0,2    0,0    4,7  0 
>>>             17 c1t0d0 =>
>>>             >rpool
>>>             >    0,0   38,5    0,0 0,7  0,0  0,2    0,0    4,9  0 
>>>             17 c1t1d0 =>
>>>             >rpool
>>>             >    0,0   40,5    0,0 0,1  0,0  0,2    0,0    5,6  0 
>>>             17 c1t2d0 =>
>>>             >data pool
>>>             >    0,0   43,5    0,0 0,2  0,0  0,2    0,0    5,4  0 
>>>             17 c1t3d0 =>
>>>             >data pool
>>>             >    0,0   44,5    0,0 0,2  0,0  0,2    0,0    5,5  0 
>>>             18 c1t4d0 =>
>>>             >data pool
>>>             >    0,0   44,0    0,0 0,2  0,0  0,2    0,0    5,4  0 
>>>             17 c1t5d0 =>
>>>             >data pool
>>>             >     0,0   76,0    0,0   1,5  7,4  0,4   97,2 4,9  14 
>>>             18 rpool
>>>             >     0,0  172,4    0,0   0,6  2,0  0,9   11,4 5,5  12 
>>>             20 DATA
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >root at NGINX:/root# dlstat show-link NGINX1 -i 2
>>>             >
>>>             >  LINK  TYPE      ID INDEX     PKTS    BYTES
>>>             >          NGINX1    rx  bcast     --        0   0
>>>             >          NGINX1    rx     sw     --        0   0
>>>             >          NGINX1    tx  bcast     --        0   0
>>>             >          NGINX1    tx     sw     --    9.26K 692.00K
>>>             >          NGINX1    rx  local     --   26.00K 216.32M
>>>             >          NGINX1    rx  bcast     --        0   0
>>>             >          NGINX1    rx     sw     --        0   0
>>>             >          NGINX1    tx  bcast     --        0   0
>>>             >          NGINX1    tx     sw     --    7.01K 531.38K
>>>             >          NGINX1    rx  local     --   30.65K 253.73M
>>>             >          NGINX1    rx  bcast     --        0   0
>>>             >          NGINX1    rx     sw     --        0   0
>>>             >          NGINX1    tx  bcast     --        0   0
>>>             >          NGINX1    tx     sw     --    8.95K 669.32K
>>>             >          NGINX1    rx  local     --   29.10K 241.15M
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >On the other NGZ I receive 250MB/s ????
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >- So my question is how comes that the speed is equal
>>>             to Lan 100MB/s on
>>>             >
>>>             >OmniOSce but i receive 250MB/s ?
>>>             >
>>>             >- Why is etherstub so slow if infiniband speed is
>>>             40GB/s ???
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >I'm very confused right now ...
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >And want to know for sure how to understand and see
>>>             this in the right
>>>             >way, because this customer will be the first customer
>>>             from my who gonna
>>>             >
>>>             >switch complety over to OmniOSce on production and
>>>             because this
>>>             >customer
>>>             >is one or the biggest company's in Belgium I really
>>>             don't want to mess
>>>             >up !!!
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >So any help and clarification will be highly appreciate !!!
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >Thank you very much.
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >Kind Regards,
>>>             >
>>>             >
>>>             >Dirk
>>>
>>>             I am not sure where the infiniband claim comes from, but
>>>             copying data disk to disk, you involve the slow layers
>>>             like disk, skewed by faster layers like cache of
>>>             already-read data and delayed writes :)
>>>
>>>             If you have a wide pipe that you may fill, it doesn't
>>>             mean you do have the means to fill it with a few disks.
>>>
>>>             To estimate the speeds, try pure UDP streams from
>>>             process to process (no disk), large-packet floodping, etc.
>>>
>>>             I believe etherstub is not constrained artificially, and
>>>             defaults to jumbo frames. Going to LAN and back can in
>>>             fact use external hardware (IIRC there may be a system
>>>             option to disable that, not sure) and so is constrained
>>>             by that.
>>>
>>>             Jim
>>>             --
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>>>
>>>
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>>>         Research Systems Administrator
>>>         UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering ikaufman AT ucsd
>>>         DOT edu
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>>
>>         -- 
>>         	Dirk Willems
>>         System Engineer
>>
>>
>>         +32 (0)3 443 12 38 <tel:+32%203%20443%2012%2038>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>     Ian Kaufman
>>     Research Systems Administrator
>>     UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering ikaufman AT ucsd DOT edu
>
>     -- 
>     	Dirk Willems
>     System Engineer
>
>
>     +32 (0)3 443 12 38 <tel:+32%203%20443%2012%2038>
>     Dirk.Willems at exitas.be <mailto:Dirk.Willems at exitas.be>
>
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>     Implementation Specialist. 	
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Ian Kaufman
> Research Systems Administrator
> UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering ikaufman AT ucsd DOT edu

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