FreeBSD 10.2 , ospf vs. aggregated static routes, performance issue
Evgeny Khorokhorin
john at maxnet.ru
Tue Aug 25 14:07:57 UTC 2015
Hi,
I have 10.2-STABLE, 2 CPU Intel E5-2643v3, network Intel XL710 with
1.4.0 driver from Intel
I know that going through routing table is very fast (rn_match). But I
decided to optimize routing table.
I'm using 2 interfaces - ixl0 and ixl1.
Behind ixl0 I have 304 networks 172.16.. from /28 to /24 all via the
same gw 1.1.1.1 (because ip on ixl0 with /30 mask). And behind ixl1 I
have default route via 2.2.2.2.
That 304 172.16 networks I receive via OSPF (quagga). Now all is OK - on
every interface I have up to 500kpps/395kpps, 4.5Gbps/1.57Gbps (rx/tx on
ixl1 and tx/rx on ixl0).
If I disable OSPF and in zebra add static route 172.16.0.0/12 via
1.1.1.1, the system works good until traffic grow up to 251kpps/181kpps
, 2.27Gbps/637Mbps. After that the system is degrading: ixl's queue
threads utilizes 100% CPU and I see many many traffic drops (netstat -i)
If I turn on ospfd and receive 304 more specific routes the problem
disappears.
Where is the problem? Or I have misunderstanding about how FreeBSD uses
routing table..
P.S. I use this machine as NAT. I checked this on ipfw and pf, all the same.
-- Cheers,
Evgeny
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