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Bug #4408

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NFD throughput using large chunk is low

Added by susmit shannigrahi over 6 years ago. Updated about 6 years ago.

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Description

As we discussed on 12/20/2017 call, NFD performance is a bottleneck for large data applications such as High Energy Particle Physics (HEP).

Here are the numbers we observed using ndnputchunks and catchunks. The RTT was around 3ms. Link bandwidth = 10Gbps
We also noted the NFD throughput numbers, they are similar.

Goodput Init CWND Step link_MTU NDN_MTU
81.033611 Mbit/s 500 200 9000 1M
62.872308 Mbit/s 500 200 9000 2M
69.155263 Mbit/s 500 200 9000 3M
76.271195 Mbit/s 500 200 9000 4M
78.672476 Mbit/s 500 200 9000 5M

When we use just one NFD, putchunks and catchunks connected to the same NFD (unix face), performance numbers are a little better.

Goodput Init CWND Step link_MTU NDN_MTU
347.369347 Mbit/s 500 200 9000 1M
350.066353 Mbit/s 500 200 9000 2M
327.004883 Mbit/s 500 200 9000 3M
335.431581 Mbit/s 500 200 9000 4M
344.075071 Mbit/s 500 200 9000 5M

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throughput.pdf (13.4 KB) throughput.pdf susmit shannigrahi, 01/17/2018 03:28 PM
Actions #1

Updated by Anonymous over 6 years ago

What's the exact putchunks and catchunks commands you ran?

Actions #2

Updated by Lan Wang over 6 years ago

The bandwidth-delay product is 10Gbps * 3ms = 30Mb = 3.75MB. The congestion window cannot be bigger than this, which means for a 1MB packet size, the congestion window should be at most 3.75 packets. The initial window size of 500 is too big. Or you have a different definition of window? It usually means the number of outstanding packets.

Actions #3

Updated by Junxiao Shi about 6 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to New

An issue cannot be InProgress without an assignee.

Actions #4

Updated by Junxiao Shi about 6 years ago

  • Tracker changed from Task to Bug
Actions #5

Updated by Anonymous about 6 years ago

Hey Susmit, I think you should retry your measurements with the very latest version of NFD and ndn-tools. It includes two improvements:

  • The basic congestion control scheme works now (on UDP, TCP, and Unix sockets)
  • Ndncatchunks can run without printing a line per packet, which makes it faster.

I can get better performance using normal-sized chunks (4KB):

klaus@Latitude-E7470:~$ ndncatchunks --aimd-ignore-cong-marks /bla > /dev/null

All segments have been received.
Time elapsed: 2582.85 milliseconds
Total # of segments received: 23676
Total size: 104174kB
Goodput: 322.662441 Mbit/s
Total # of retransmitted segments: 2222
Total # of received congestion marks: 152
RTT min/avg/max = 0.875/45.972/329.765 ms

I get even better performance when using the congestion marks:

ndncatchunks /bla > /dev/null

All segments have been received.
Time elapsed: 1285.99 milliseconds
Total # of segments received: 23676
Total size: 104174kB
Goodput: 648.052707 Mbit/s
Total # of retransmitted segments: 0
Total # of received congestion marks: 9
RTT min/avg/max = 0.847/17.817/174.590 ms

Actions #6

Updated by Davide Pesavento about 6 years ago

  • Start date deleted (12/20/2017)

Klaus Schneider wrote:

  • The basic congestion control scheme works now (on UDP, TCP, and Unix sockets)

Remember that the above still requires changing a flag in NFD's source code. You can wait for #4465 if you don't want to do that.

Actions #7

Updated by susmit shannigrahi about 6 years ago

Davide Pesavento wrote:

Klaus Schneider wrote:

  • The basic congestion control scheme works now (on UDP, TCP, and Unix sockets)

Remember that the above still requires changing a flag in NFD's source code. You can wait for #4465 if you don't want to do that.

Which flag should I change?

Actions #8

Updated by Eric Newberry about 6 years ago

susmit shannigrahi wrote:

Davide Pesavento wrote:

Klaus Schneider wrote:

  • The basic congestion control scheme works now (on UDP, TCP, and Unix sockets)

Remember that the above still requires changing a flag in NFD's source code. You can wait for #4465 if you don't want to do that.

Which flag should I change?

In the GenericLinkService::Options constructor, you can change allowCongestionMarking to true.

Actions #9

Updated by Anonymous about 6 years ago

Eric Newberry wrote:

In the GenericLinkService::Options constructor, you can change allowCongestionMarking to true.

Yeah, plus remember to do that for all involved hosts.

Actions #10

Updated by susmit shannigrahi about 6 years ago

Looks like the performance peaks around 1MB at 1.4Gbps. See attached figure.
This is on the same machine (unix face).

$ ndncatchunks --aimd-initial-cwnd=100/200/300 --aimd-ignore-cong-marks /test > /dev/null

Actions #11

Updated by Davide Pesavento about 6 years ago

why --aimd-ignore-cong-marks?

Actions #12

Updated by Anonymous about 6 years ago

Davide Pesavento wrote:

why --aimd-ignore-cong-marks?

Yeah, using the congestion marks (removing the --aimd-ignore-cong-marks option) should give you an even higher performance.

Can you post the catchunks summary output? I'm especially interested in #retransmissions and RTT.

Actions #13

Updated by susmit shannigrahi about 6 years ago

In the GenericLinkService::Options constructor, you can change allowCongestionMarking to true.

Thanks, Eric.
I noticed that you merged a change that incorporates the config file option. So this is no longer need, right?

Actions #14

Updated by Eric Newberry about 6 years ago

susmit shannigrahi wrote:

In the GenericLinkService::Options constructor, you can change allowCongestionMarking to true.

Thanks, Eric.
I noticed that you merged a change that incorporates the config file option. So this is no longer need, right?

Correct. We're planning to add this to management soon as well.

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