Compute node NIC bonding for increased instance throughput

Sinan Polat sinan at turka.nl
Wed Jan 8 16:43:06 UTC 2020


Hi Jared,

A single stream will utilize just 1 link. Have you tried with multiple streams using different sources?

What do you mean with layer3+4. Do you mean the xmit hash policy?

Sinan

> Op 8 jan. 2020 om 17:25 heeft shubjero <shubjero at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Good day,
> 
> I have a question for the OpenStack community, hopefully someone can
> help me out here.
> 
> Goal
> ------------------
> Provision an NFS instance capable of providing 20Gbps of network
> throughput to be used by multiple other instances within the same
> project/network.
> 
> Background
> ------------------
> We run an OpenStack Stein cluster on Ubuntu 18.04. Our Neutron
> architecture is using openvswitch and GRE. Our compute nodes have two
> 10G NIC's and are configured in a layer3+4 LACP to the Top of Rack
> switch.
> 
> Observations
> ------------------
> Successfully see 20Gbps of traffic balanced across both slaves in the
> bond when performing iperf3 tests at the *baremetal/os/ubuntu* layer
> with two other compute nodes as iperf3 clients.
> 
> Problem
> ------------------
> We are unable to achieve 20Gbps at the instance level. We have tried
> multiple iperf3 connections from multiple other instances on different
> compute nodes and we are only able to reach 10Gbps and notice that
> traffic is not utilizing both slaves in the bond. One slave gets all
> of the traffic while the other slave sits basically idle.
> 
> I have some configuration output here:
> http://paste.openstack.org/show/QdQq76q6VI1XN5tLW0xH/
> 
> Any help would be appreciated!
> 
> Jared Baker
> Cloud Architect, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
> 




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