ip command becomes slower with large number of network devices

uploaded for p/q

Hello Chris, or anyone else affected,

Accepted iproute into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iproute/20120521-3ubuntu1.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Hello Chris, or anyone else affected,

Accepted iproute into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iproute/20111117-1ubuntu2.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Hello Brian,

just upgraded from 20111117-1ubuntu2.1 to 20111117-1ubuntu2.2 an noticed that 'ip route' reports wrong interface device names ( if2 instead of eth0):

1ubuntu2.1:
root@maumau:/etc/apt# ip route show
default via abc.def.39.254 dev eth0 metric 100
abc.def.32.0/21 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src abc.def.32.251
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000

1ubuntu2.2:
root@maumau:/etc/apt# ip route show
default via abc.def.39.254 dev if2 metric 100
abc.def.32.0/21 dev if2 proto kernel scope link src abc.def.32.251
169.254.0.0/16 dev if2 scope link metric 1000

Looks like the fix is not complete. Thanks. Thorsten

I can confirm this problem. I'll look into why this patch is causing this.

Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS 3.8.0-36-generic #52~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 3 21:54:46 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I just said "this bug affects me too", but what I really meant to say was "the fix is broken for me too" and shows "if" numbers instead of interface device names. I had to downgrade back to the previous version.

The ll_init_map removal code is dependent on a few others changes which I didn't backport correctly. There are many changes to the ll_map code that make this not a trivial backport as I had anticipated.

These SRUs have been removed from both precise-proposed and quantal-proposed due to failed verification.

Hello Chris, or anyone else affected,

Accepted iproute into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iproute/20111117-1ubuntu2.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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With package from #12:
$ ./parse.py results
5.6818
3.9063
2.4752
1.4535
1.1521
1.004
0.8621
0.7375
0.6477
0.5828
0.523
0.4762

With stock package, parse results:
5.2083
3.7313
2.381
1.4881
1.1848
1.0
0.8333
0.731
0.6378
0.5747
0.5133
0.4647

Confirmed with time ./make_fake_routers.sh; the latest ubuntu2.3 package does not seem to solve the original issue as they both take the same amount of time.

Bryan

Id like you to reconsider this test if possible. Better results have also been confirmed by others (including customers).

Fake routers creation performance depends on other issues (not only covered by this bug) like CPU scalability (since netlink generated work is delayed by kernel and offloaded to RCU callbacks). There are some other issues being investigated for fake router creation but for this specific bug I can confirm results several times.

Keep in mind that results are sometimes less then 10% better because of kernel RCU offload characteristics (like for example when using only 1 CPU for the test).

My testcase:

I'm using last good commit generated kernel for this case (34ed6246). After this specific commit (upstream kernel) performance for fake router creation brakes (I'll put other BUG information and # at the end of this case, when appropriate).

By now, from kernel 3.2 to kernel 3.9 (up to this commit), general behavior is to have RCU callbacks enabled (no configuration on what cpu to offload up to this point) and this is what "NOCB" stands for on the attached file.

Independently of the kernel (running on precise), iproute userland tool + this patch gives better results.

Please take a look at the attached file specifically on "average" fields.

Thanks in advance.

I can also confirm that this patch works as hoped. It's been happily working in a very large production environment for a few weeks as well. Please promote! Thanks.

This bug was fixed in the package iproute - 20111117-1ubuntu2.3

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iproute (20111117-1ubuntu2.3) precise; urgency=medium

  * Fix ip netns scaling issues for 1000s of routers. (LP: #1281366)
 -- Rafael David Tinoco <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:05:33 -0500

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