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Hi James,

Let me ask you something...

Are you using the package `openvswitch-datapath-dkms' from Havana Ubuntu
Cloud Archive with Linux 3.8?

I am unable to compile that module on top of Ubuntu 12.04.3 (with Linux
3.8) and I'm wondering if it is still required or not...

Thanks!
Thiago


On 2 October 2013 06:14, James Page <james.page at ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> Hi Folks
>
> I'm seeing an odd direction performance issue with my Havana test rig
> which I'm struggling to debug; details:
>
> Ubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.8 backports kernel, Havana Cloud Archive
> (currently Havana b3, OpenvSwitch 1.10.2), OpenvSwitch plugin with GRE
> overlay networks.
>
> I've configured the MTU's on all of the physical host network
> interfaces to 1546 to add capacity for the GRE network headers.
>
> Performance between instances within a single tenant network on
> different physical hosts is as I would expect (near 1GBps), but I see
> issues when data transits the Neutron L3 gateway - in the example
> below churel is a physical host on the same network as the layer 3
> gateway:
>
> ubuntu at churel:~$ scp hardware.dump 10.98.191.103:
> hardware.dump
>                                               100%   67MB   4.8MB/s
> 00:14
>
> ubuntu at churel:~$ scp 10.98.191.103:hardware.dump .
> hardware.dump
>                                                     100%   67MB
> 66.8MB/s   00:01
>
> As you can see, pushing data to the instance (via a floating ip
> 10.98.191.103) is painfully slow, whereas pulling the same data is
> x10+ faster (and closer to what I would expect).
>
> iperf confirms the same:
>
> ubuntu at churel:~$ iperf -c 10.98.191.103 -m
> - ------------------------------------------------------------
> Client connecting to 10.98.191.103, TCP port 5001
> TCP window size: 22.9 KByte (default)
> - ------------------------------------------------------------
> [  3] local 10.98.191.11 port 55330 connected with 10.98.191.103 port 5001
> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  60.8 MBytes  50.8 Mbits/sec
> [  3] MSS size 1448 bytes (MTU 1500 bytes, ethernet)
>
> ubuntu at james-page-bastion:~$ iperf -c 10.98.191.11 -m
>
>
> - ------------------------------------------------------------
> Client connecting to 10.98.191.11, TCP port 5001
> TCP window size: 23.3 KByte (default)
> - ------------------------------------------------------------
> [  3] local 10.5.0.2 port 52190 connected with 10.98.191.11 port 5001
> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.07 GBytes   918 Mbits/sec
> [  3] MSS size 1448 bytes (MTU 1500 bytes, ethernet)
>
>
> 918Mbit vs 50Mbits.
>
> I tcpdump'ed the traffic and I see alot of duplicate acks which makes
> me suspect some sort of packet fragmentation but its got me puzzled.
>
> Anyone have any ideas about how to debug this further? or has anyone
> seen anything like this before?
>
> Cheers
>
> James
>
>
> - --
> James Page
> Ubuntu and Debian Developer
> james.page at ubuntu.com
> jamespage at debian.org
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