Bug 1379431 - PCP network.interface.speed values are inaccurate
Summary: PCP network.interface.speed values are inaccurate
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pcp
Version: 24
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nathan Scott
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-09-26 17:45 UTC by William Cohen
Modified: 2016-12-02 00:17 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pcp-3.11.6-1.fc25 pcp-3.11.6-1.fc24 pcp-3.11.6-1.fc23 pcp-3.11.6-1.el5
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-11-24 16:29:26 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
typo fix (632 bytes, patch)
2016-11-02 17:11 UTC, Frank Ch. Eigler
no flags Details | Diff

Description William Cohen 2016-09-26 17:45:40 UTC
Description of problem:

The expected values of network.interface.speed for the gigabit ethernet on a laptop (Lenovo thinkpad W530)  look way off from the expected values.  Not having reasonable values for this metric makes it very difficult to determine the network interface utilization.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

$ rpm -q pcp
pcp-3.11.4-1.fc24.x86_64
$ uname -a
Linux santana 4.7.4-200.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 15 18:42:09 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

How reproducible: Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install pcp on fedora 24
2.  pmval network.interface.speed


Actual results:

$ pminfo -d network.interface.speed

network.interface.speed
    Data Type: float  InDom: 60.3 0xf000003
    Semantics: discrete  Units: Mbyte / sec

$ pmval network.interface.speed

metric:    network.interface.speed
host:      santana
semantics: discrete instantaneous value
units:     Mbyte / sec
samples:   all

       wlp3s0            lo    virbr0-nic        virbr0         vnet0           em1       docker0 
       2.146              ?     7.813E+04             ?     7.813E+04     7.813E+06             ? 
       2.146              ?     7.813E+04             ?     7.813E+04     7.813E+06             ? 


Expected results:

Would expect the results to be more like the rhel7 on a W541 machine like the following (enp0s25 interface):

$ rpm -q pcp
pcp-3.10.6-2.el7.x86_64
[wcohen@dhcp129-2 ~]$ uname -a
Linux dhcp129-2.rdu.redhat.com 3.10.0-482.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 1 10:31:16 EDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$  pmval network.interface.speed

metric:    network.interface.speed
host:      dhcp129-2.rdu.redhat.com
semantics: discrete instantaneous value
units:     Mbyte / sec
samples:   all

      enp0s25            lo    virbr0-nic        virbr0 
     119.2                ?        1.192              ?

Comment 1 William Cohen 2016-11-02 16:51:45 UTC
This issue was introduced between the 3.10.6 and the 3.11.  On a RHEL7 machine build the PCP 3.11 RPMs and install them.  Got the same incorrect results on RHEL7 using the newer PCP 3.11.

Comparing the values of broken/working it looks like PCP 3.11 has the values about 65K (~2^16) higher than the correct values.

When I reverted following patch in PCP the network.interface.speed values look more reasonable:

commit 9b616ace2284b622c4a8e7eae7766c11a2f0b9e8
Author: Nathan Scott <nathans>
Date:   Tue Sep 22 17:32:52 2015 +1000

    pmdalinux: correctly report high speed network link speeds
    
    The kernel ethtool ioctl interface was extended to allow speeds
    beyond 1Gbps to be reported - update to use this (back-compat)
    extension.  We only use this interface nowadays if the sysfs
    access to read interface speed fails.

Comment 2 Frank Ch. Eigler 2016-11-02 17:11:17 UTC
Created attachment 1216645 [details]
typo fix

Comment 3 Dave Brolley 2016-11-02 20:03:04 UTC
Fixed by upstream commit f1915a72d42be118f60aaf2018a0d5c22cee11a4

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-11-16 05:12:15 UTC
pcp-3.11.6-1.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d0ad9e5194

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-11-16 05:13:39 UTC
pcp-3.11.6-1.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-15f10c1698

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-11-16 05:15:46 UTC
pcp-3.11.6-1.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-a7626fa3f1

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-11-16 05:16:40 UTC
pcp-3.11.6-1.el5 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 5. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-a7454a07e7

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-11-16 20:25:30 UTC
pcp-3.11.6-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-a7626fa3f1

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2016-11-17 03:53:01 UTC
pcp-3.11.6-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-15f10c1698

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2016-11-17 03:57:31 UTC
pcp-3.11.6-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d0ad9e5194

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2016-11-17 12:17:42 UTC
pcp-3.11.6-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-a7454a07e7

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2016-11-24 16:29:26 UTC
pcp-3.11.6-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2016-11-24 20:28:51 UTC
pcp-3.11.6-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2016-11-25 07:23:04 UTC
pcp-3.11.6-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2016-12-02 00:17:46 UTC
pcp-3.11.6-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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