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4860 has not got significant IPsec performance rising with enabled HW acceleration
Start date:
02/08/2017
Due date:
% Done:
0%
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Affected Version:
2.3.2
Affected Architecture:
Description
During IPsec performance tests on 4860 I did not observe significant IPsec performance increasing if HW acceleration is enabled.
Average rising are:
10% for AES128CBC
7% for AES128GCM
In comparison with 2440, 2440 gives:
56% for AES128CBC
54% for AES128GCM
4860 tests:
128 GCM 34000pps
kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 3 0xffffffff80200000 225edc0 kernel
2 1 0xffffffff82611000 3646 ichwd.ko
last pid: 62291; load averages: 4.48, 3.20, 1.62 up 0+00:10:24 06:51:23
55 processes: 2 running, 52 sleeping, 1 waiting
CPU 0: 19.3% user, 0.0% nice, 33.1% system, 27.6% interrupt, 20.1% idle
CPU 1: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 99.2% interrupt, 0.8% idle
CPU 2: 17.3% user, 0.0% nice, 52.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 30.7% idle
CPU 3: 16.1% user, 0.0% nice, 53.1% system, 0.0% interrupt, 30.7% idle
Mem: 55M Active, 40M Inact, 183M Wired, 38M Buf, 7613M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME CPU COMMAND
12 root 45 -72 - 0K 720K WAIT 3 6:24 130.13% intr
77387 root 17 20 0 249M 14632K uwait 2 6:54 106.30% charon
11 root 4 155 ki31 0K 64K RUN 3 20:54 82.03% idle
18291 root 2 20 0 30144K 17988K usem 3 4:44 80.76% ntpd
0 root 32 -8 - 0K 512K - 0 1:30 2.59% kernel
128 GCM 36500pps
kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 6 0xffffffff80200000 225edc0 kernel
2 1 0xffffffff82611000 7577 aesni.ko
3 1 0xffffffff82619000 3646 ichwd.ko
last pid: 98195; load averages: 4.41, 3.26, 1.77 up 0+00:09:07 07:06:31
55 processes: 4 running, 51 sleeping
CPU 0: 12.2% user, 0.0% nice, 32.2% system, 33.7% interrupt, 22.0% idle
CPU 1: 19.6% user, 0.0% nice, 55.7% system, 0.0% interrupt, 24.7% idle
CPU 2: 17.3% user, 0.0% nice, 57.3% system, 0.0% interrupt, 25.5% idle
CPU 3: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 100% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle
Mem: 52M Active, 37M Inact, 183M Wired, 30M Buf, 7619M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME CPU COMMAND
25406 root 17 92 0 249M 14692K CPU1 1 8:44 106.54% charon
0 root 32 -8 - 0K 512K - 0 0:47 100.00% kernel
16732 root 2 20 0 30144K 17988K kqread 2 6:21 80.57% ntpd
11 root 4 155 ki31 0K 64K RUN 3 9:51 77.98% idle
12 root 45 -72 - 0K 720K RUN 3 9:17 28.37% intr
128 CBC 34000pps
kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 3 0xffffffff80200000 225edc0 kernel
2 1 0xffffffff82611000 3646 ichwd.ko
last pid: 66419; load averages: 4.54, 2.28, 1.03 up 0+00:08:24 07:23:31
55 processes: 3 running, 51 sleeping, 1 waiting
CPU 0: 18.0% user, 0.0% nice, 33.7% system, 27.1% interrupt, 21.2% idle
CPU 1: 0.8% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 98.8% interrupt, 0.4% idle
CPU 2: 20.8% user, 0.0% nice, 51.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 28.2% idle
CPU 3: 20.4% user, 0.0% nice, 43.5% system, 18.0% interrupt, 18.0% idle
Mem: 52M Active, 38M Inact, 182M Wired, 26M Buf, 7621M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME CPU COMMAND
25895 root 17 92 0 249M 14296K CPU0 0 3:56 101.76% charon
12 root 45 -72 - 0K 720K WAIT 3 1:27 92.04% intr
11 root 4 155 ki31 0K 64K RUN 3 21:23 78.86% idle
18871 root 2 20 0 30144K 17988K usem 1 2:42 75.49% ntpd
0 root 32 -8 - 0K 512K - 0 3:07 39.26% kernel
128 CBC 36500pps
kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 6 0xffffffff80200000 225edc0 kernel
2 1 0xffffffff82611000 7577 aesni.ko
3 1 0xffffffff82619000 3646 ichwd.ko
last pid: 97408; load averages: 5.05, 3.99, 2.54 up 0+00:14:56 07:12:20
55 processes: 3 running, 51 sleeping, 1 waiting
CPU 0: 14.9% user, 0.0% nice, 26.7% system, 36.1% interrupt, 22.4% idle
CPU 1: 18.4% user, 0.0% nice, 53.3% system, 0.0% interrupt, 28.2% idle
CPU 2: 14.9% user, 0.0% nice, 59.2% system, 0.0% interrupt, 25.9% idle
CPU 3: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 100% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle
Mem: 53M Active, 38M Inact, 184M Wired, 36M Buf, 7616M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME CPU COMMAND
25406 root 17 92 0 249M 14908K CPU1 1 14:30 103.47% charon
0 root 32 -8 - 0K 512K - 0 4:21 100.00% kernel
16732 root 2 20 0 30144K 17988K usem 1 10:30 85.35% ntpd
11 root 4 155 ki31 0K 64K RUN 3 16:21 79.59% idle
12 root 45 -72 - 0K 720K WAIT 3 12:38 27.78% intr
uname -a FreeBSD pfSense.localdomain 10.3-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p9 #1 5fc1b19(RELENG_2_3_2): Tue Sep 27 12:25:49 CDT 2016 root@factory23-amd64-builder:/builder/factory-232/tmp/obj/builder/factory-232/tmp/FreeBSD-src/sys/pfSense amd64
Updated by Kris Phillips about 3 years ago
The 4860 is end of sale and end of support, so may be time to put this one to bed regardless. We should re-run performance metrics here as I suspect there has been improvement.
Updated by Sean McBride about 3 years ago
I have a 4860 running newest pfsense, and I use IPSec. How could I do performance measurements?
Updated by Kris Phillips about 3 years ago
Sean McBride wrote in #note-2:
I have a 4860 running newest pfsense, and I use IPSec. How could I do performance measurements?
Hello Sean,
You can run tests on throughput using the iPerf3 package. I have two SG-2440s I can run tests to compare the results that you take.
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