Bug 1378996 - North-South Throughput is abysmal when data is downloaded from external to VM
Summary: North-South Throughput is abysmal when data is downloaded from external to VM
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openstack-neutron
Version: 10.0 (Newton)
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Assaf Muller
QA Contact: Toni Freger
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-09-23 20:10 UTC by Sai Sindhur Malleni
Modified: 2016-10-04 12:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-10-04 12:24:27 UTC
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Description Sai Sindhur Malleni 2016-09-23 20:10:09 UTC
Description of problem:
When data is downloaded from external source to the VM, throughput is extremely low  (~1-5Mbps) to a point where it leaves the user wondering if the environment is even functional. However, when the VM is sending the traffic, the throughput seems fine(~500Mbps). These results were obtained using the iperf tests, with egress throughput  being traffic sent from VM to external source and ingress being Vica-versa. The external source was setup to be within Red Hat and also a public iperf server was tried. In both cases, no differences in throughput were observed. The VM had a floating ip, and even without a floating ip we were seeing similar bad performance in N-S traffic download case.

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How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create network, subnet, router and VM
2. Attach router to external
3. Setup external iperf3 server and run iperf tests with the VM being the client

Actual results:
Throughput of iperf ingress case was around 5Mbps. Some cases it was less than 1 Mbps

Expected results:
Throughput similar to TCP Upload case ~500 Mbps


Additional info:
TCP Download results: http://8.43.86.1:8088/smalleni/sai-tcpoff.html#agent=shaker_tioepm_agent_0:concurrency=1:node=overcloud-novacompute-0.localdomain:scenario=OpenStack%20L3%20North-South%20performance%20to%20external%20target%20with%20floating%20IP:test=TCP%20ingress


TCp upload results: http://8.43.86.1:8088/smalleni/sai-tcpoff.html#agent=shaker_tioepm_agent_0:concurrency=1:node=overcloud-novacompute-0.localdomain:scenario=OpenStack%20L3%20North-South%20performance%20to%20external%20target%20with%20floating%20IP:test=TCP%20egress

Comment 1 Sai Sindhur Malleni 2016-09-29 19:07:03 UTC
Looks to be an issue with iperf rather than OSP itself, as wgetting a large file shows normal throughput but not running iperd server/client. Filed issue with iperf. Definitely, not a Neutron/TripleO bug.

Comment 2 Assaf Muller 2016-10-04 12:24:27 UTC
(In reply to Sindhur from comment #1)
> [...] Definitely, not a Neutron/TripleO bug.


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