[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-API] Flood test with xen/openvswitch
temporary solution: add more active cpus to dom0. echo 1 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online echo 1 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online echo 1 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online Ð ÐÑ., 07/09/2011 Ð 13:29 +0200, SÃbastien Riccio ÐÐÑÐÑ: > Hi, > > I just did a test to see how openvswitch handle a flood from a virtual > machine on a xen > host using it as the networking layer. > > I just issued a : > > vm1# hping3 -S -L 0 -p 80 -i u100 192.168.1.1 > > options I used are: > -S set SYN tcp flag > -L set ACK tcp flag > -p destination port > -i u100 = interval between packets in micro seconds > > This results in a cpu usage up to 97% by the ovs-vswitchd process in the > dom0. > Letting it go for a few minutes turns the whole xen host unresponsive to > network access > and must then be accessed from the local console. > > Is that an excepted behavior ? I know the test is quite agressive but > any customer could issue such a flood > and render the whole host unreachable. Are there workarounds ? > > Thanks for your help. > > Best regards, > SÃbastien > > part of the openvswitch logs when issuing the flood: > > Sep 07 13:13:26|01523|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 18 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (85% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:26|01524|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 21 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (85% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:27|01525|poll_loop|WARN|Dropped 5136 log messages in last 1 > seconds (most recently, 1 seconds ago) due to excessive rate > Sep 07 13:13:27|01526|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 18 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (85% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:27|01527|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 21 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (85% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:28|01528|poll_loop|WARN|Dropped 5815 log messages in last 1 > seconds (most recently, 1 seconds ago) due to excessive rate > Sep 07 13:13:28|01529|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 18 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (85% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:28|01530|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 21 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (85% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:29|01531|poll_loop|WARN|Dropped 8214 log messages in last 1 > seconds (most recently, 1 seconds ago) due to excessive rate > Sep 07 13:13:29|01532|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 18 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (82% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:29|01533|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 21 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (82% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:30|01534|poll_loop|WARN|Dropped 5068 log messages in last 1 > seconds (most recently, 1 seconds ago) due to excessive rate > Sep 07 13:13:30|01535|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 18 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (82% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:30|01536|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 21 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (82% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:31|01537|poll_loop|WARN|Dropped 5008 log messages in last 1 > seconds (most recently, 1 seconds ago) due to excessive rate > Sep 07 13:13:31|01538|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 18 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (82% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:31|01539|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 21 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (82% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:32|01540|poll_loop|WARN|Dropped 4841 log messages in last 1 > seconds (most recently, 1 seconds ago) due to excessive rate > Sep 07 13:13:32|01541|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to 40-ms timeout at > ../ofproto/ofproto-dpif.c:622 (83% CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:32|01542|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 18 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (83% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:33|01543|poll_loop|WARN|Dropped 92 log messages in last 1 > seconds (most recently, 1 seconds ago) due to excessive rate > Sep 07 13:13:33|01544|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 18 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (83% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:33|01545|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 21 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (83% > CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:34|01546|poll_loop|WARN|Dropped 27 log messages in last 1 > seconds (most recently, 1 seconds ago) due to excessive rate > Sep 07 13:13:34|01547|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to 53-ms timeout at > ../lib/mac-learning.c:294 (83% CPU usage) > Sep 07 13:13:34|01548|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due to [POLLIN] on fd 18 > (NETLINK_GENERIC<->NETLINK_GENERIC) at ../lib/netlink-socket.c:668 (83% > CPU usage) > > > _______________________________________________ > xen-api mailing list > xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-api _______________________________________________ xen-api mailing list xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-api
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