On 10/17/2007 04:51 PM, Felix von Leitner wrote:
> I wrote a small read-only SMB server, and wanted to see how fast it was.
> So I used smbget to download a moderately large file from it via localhost.
> smbget only got ~70 KB/sec.
>
> This is what the view from strace -tt on the server is:
>
> 22:44:58.812467 read(8, "\0\0\0007\377SMB.\0\0\0\0\10\1\310\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\232\3"..., 8192) = 59
> 22:44:58.812619 mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2b46b8e5e000
> 22:44:58.812729 fcntl(9, F_GETFL) = 0x8000 (flags O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
> 22:44:58.812847 epoll_ctl(7, EPOLL_CTL_DEL, 8, {0, {u32=8, u64=13323248792850399240}}) = 0
> 22:44:58.812946 epoll_ctl(7, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, 8, {EPOLLOUT, {u32=8, u64=18251433459580936}}) = 0
> 22:44:58.813039 epoll_wait(7, {{EPOLLOUT, {u32=8, u64=18251433459580936}}}, 100, 442) = 1
> 22:44:58.813132 setsockopt(8, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK, [1], 4) = 0
> 22:44:58.813215 write(8, "\0\0\372<\377SMB.\0\0\0\0\200A\300\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\232\3"..., 64) = 64
> 22:44:58.813323 sendfile(8, 9, [128000], 64000) = 64000
> 22:44:58.813430 setsockopt(8, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK, [0], 4) = 0
> 22:44:58.813511 munmap(0x2b46b8e5e000, 8192) = 0
> 22:44:58.813600 epoll_wait(7, {{EPOLLOUT, {u32=8, u64=18251433459580936}}}, 100, 442) = 1
> 22:44:58.813693 epoll_ctl(7, EPOLL_CTL_DEL, 8, {0, {u32=8, u64=8}}) = 0
> 22:44:58.813778 epoll_ctl(7, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, 8, {EPOLLIN, {u32=8, u64=18252000395264008}}) = 0
> 22:44:58.813869 epoll_wait(7, {}, 100, 441) = 0
> 22:44:59.255789 epoll_wait(7, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=8, u64=18252000395264008}}}, 100, 999) = 1
> 22:44:59.688519 read(8, "\0\0\0007\377SMB.\0\0\0\0\10\1\310\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\232\3"..., 8192) = 59
>
>
> As you can see, the time difference between reading the query and writing the
> result is very small, but there is a big delay before receiving the next request.
>
> This is the view from a sniffer on the lo interface:
>
> 1192653899.688385 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 SMB Read AndX Request, FID: 0x0001, 64000 bytes at offset 192000
> 1192653899.688399 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 TCP 445 > 42990 [ACK] Seq=192660 Ack=779 Win=33920 Len=0 TSV=359208 TSER=359208
> 1192653899.895725 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 SMB [TCP Window Full] Read AndX Response, FID: 0x0001, 64000 bytes
> 1192653899.895793 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 TCP 42990 > 445 [ACK] Seq=779 Ack=204948 Win=12288 Len=0 TSV=359260 TSER=359260
> 1192653899.895805 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 NBSS NBSS Continuation Message
> 1192653899.935725 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 TCP 42990 > 445 [ACK] Seq=779 Ack=209044 Win=12288 Len=0 TSV=359270 TSER=359260
> 1192653900.147739 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 NBSS [TCP Window Full] NBSS Continuation Message
> 1192653900.147767 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 TCP [TCP ZeroWindow] 42990 > 445 [ACK] Seq=779 Ack=221332 Win=0 Len=0 TSV=359323 TSER=359323
> 1192653900.147807 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 TCP [TCP Window Update] 42990 > 445 [ACK] Seq=779 Ack=221332 Win=12288 Len=0 TSV=359323 TSER=359323
> 1192653900.147815 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 NBSS NBSS Continuation Message
> 1192653900.147837 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 TCP 42990 > 445 [ACK] Seq=779 Ack=225428 Win=12288 Len=0 TSV=359323 TSER=359323
> 1192653900.355754 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 NBSS [TCP Window Full] NBSS Continuation Message
> 1192653900.355782 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 TCP [TCP ZeroWindow] 42990 > 445 [ACK] Seq=779 Ack=237716 Win=0 Len=0 TSV=359375 TSER=359375
> 1192653900.355820 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 TCP [TCP Window Update] 42990 > 445 [ACK] Seq=779 Ack=237716 Win=12288 Len=0 TSV=359375 TSER=359375
> 1192653900.355829 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 NBSS NBSS Continuation Message
> 1192653900.355849 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 TCP 42990 > 445 [ACK] Seq=779 Ack=241812 Win=12288 Len=0 TSV=359375 TSER=359375
> 1192653900.563766 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 NBSS [TCP Window Full] NBSS Continuation Message
> 1192653900.563794 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 TCP [TCP ZeroWindow] 42990 > 445 [ACK] Seq=779 Ack=254100 Win=0 Len=0 TSV=359427 TSER=359427
> 1192653900.563831 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 TCP [TCP Window Update] 42990 > 445 [ACK] Seq=779 Ack=254100 Win=12288 Len=0 TSV=359427 TSER=359427
> 1192653900.563839 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 NBSS NBSS Continuation Message
> 1192653900.563858 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 TCP 42990 > 445 [ACK] Seq=779 Ack=256724 Win=12288 Len=0 TSV=359427 TSER=359427
> 1192653900.564444 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1 SMB Read AndX Request, FID: 0x0001, 64000 bytes at offset 256000
>
>
> Note the delay between sending the response and getting the reply.
> Also note that there is almost no delay between getting the reply and sending
> the next request.
>
> My understanding of TCP_CORK from the tcp(7) man page is that it should flush
> out the data immediately, but the network trace seems to suggest that there is
> a 200 ms delay between the request and the outgoing data. tcp(7) says there is
> a 200 ms delay for sending out data when the socket is in corked mode, so
> uncorking does not appear to work.
>
>
> Now for the strange part: the same code works without a 200 ms delay
> over ethernet. The delay only appears on the loopback interface.
>
> Also, on my home desktop, which is also running 2.6.22, there is no
> delay even on loopback.
>
> I tried 2.6.23 on my notebook, but the effect is the same.
>
> Any ideas what could cause this?
>
(cc: netdev)
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