[c-nsp] high cpu usage because of process switching on mlppp interface

Rodney Dunn rodunn at cisco.com
Tue Sep 4 12:17:50 EDT 2007


I'd like to see the full config of the 72xx.

Also, can you do the following:

a) disable fragmentation on both sides "no ppp multilink fragmentation"
b) remove all non MLPPP commands from the member links of the bundle
   You should add those to the MLPPP interface itself

You are process switcing all of your traffic inbound on the MLPPP 
interface of the 72xx:

>     > MTP-C72-02#sh inter mul 1 switching
>     > Multilink1 Maltepe - Adana MLPPP
>     >           Throttle count          0
>     >                    Drops         RP     752707         SP          0
>     >              SPD Flushes       Fast          0        SSE          0
>     >              SPD Aggress       Fast          0
>     >             SPD Priority     Inputs        259      Drops          0
>     >
>     >     Protocol  IP
>     >           Switching path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>     >                  Process   50148189  395174672     261949   26235771
>     >             Cache misses          0          -          -          -
>     >                     Fast       1325     105874      12194     724886
>     >                Auton/SSE          0          0          0          0
>     >
>     >     Protocol  Tag
>     >           Switching path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>     >                  Process   79390997 3601460527       5116     538398
>     >             Cache misses          0          -          -          -
>     >                     Fast          0          0   87354606 4071850482
>     >                Auton/SSE          0          0          0          0


so that tells me it's another feature configured most likely on the egress
interface this traffic will go out of or a bad bug.

Notice it's doing it for both ingress ip and MPLS.


Rodney


On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:47:04AM +0300, Arda Balkanay wrote:
> Hi
> I haven't had a TAC SR yet about this issue, and i couldn't find the related
> topic previously covered
> in this group so sory for double opening of this kind of subject.
> In my scenario i am running mpls over mlppp. this line is my pop uplink.
> I could'nt get useful information about my problem from the command "show cef
> interface" output.
> According to your previous mail can you please send me the Bug ID, on the other
> hand i can open a TAC case
> for this issue, but before i should study cisco switching architecture (like
> process switching fast switching and so on)
> 
> 
> MTP-C72-02#sh cef interface mu 1
> Multilink1 is up (if_number 55)
>   Corresponding hwidb fast_if_number 55
>   Corresponding hwidb firstsw->if_number 55
>   Internet address is 85.29.8.101/30
>   ICMP redirects are always sent
>   Per packet load-sharing is disabled
>   IP unicast RPF check is disabled
>   Inbound access list is not set
>   Outbound access list is not set
>   Interface is marked as point to point interface
>   Hardware idb is Multilink1
>   Fast switching type 7, interface type 94
>   IP CEF switching enabled
>   IP CEF Fast switching turbo vector
>   IP Null turbo vector
>   Input fast flags 0x0, Input fast flags2 0x0, Output fast flags 0x0, Output
> fast flags2 0x0
>   ifindex 31(31)
>   Slot -1 Slot unit 1 Unit 1 VC -1
>   Transmit limit accumulator 0x0 (0x0)
>   IP MTU 1500
>  
> ADN-C38-01#sh cef interface Mu1
> Multilink1 is up (if_number 21)
>   Corresponding hwidb fast_if_number 21
>   Corresponding hwidb firstsw->if_number 21
>   Internet address is 85.29.8.102/30
>   ICMP redirects are always sent
>   Per packet load-sharing is disabled
>   IP unicast RPF check is disabled
>   Inbound access list is not set
>   Outbound access list is not set
>   Interface is marked as point to point interface
>   Hardware idb is Multilink1
>   Fast switching type 7, interface type 94
>   IP CEF switching enabled
>   IP CEF Fast switching turbo vector
>   Input fast flags 0x0, Input fast flags2 0x0, Output fast flags 0x0, Output
> fast flags2 0x0
>   ifindex 17(17)
>   Slot -1 Slot unit 1 Unit 1 VC -1
>   Transmit limit accumulator 0x0 (0x0)
>   IP MTU 1500
> ADN-C38-01#
> 
> 
> My interface configs are as follow:
> 
> MTP-C72-02#sh run int mu 1
> Building configuration...
> 
> Current configuration : 262 bytes
> !
> interface Multilink1
>  description Maltepe - Adana MLPPP
>  mtu 1600
>  ip address 85.29.8.101 255.255.255.252
>  ip mtu 1500
>  mpls label protocol ldp
>  tag-switching mtu 1524
>  tag-switching ip
>  ppp multilink
>  ppp multilink group 1
>  ppp multilink mrru local 1604
> end
> 
> MTP-C72-02#sh ppp mu
> 
> Multilink1, bundle name is ADN-C38-01
>   Endpoint discriminator is ADN-C38-01
>   Bundle up for 2d01h, 174/255 load
>   Receive buffer limit 25664 bytes, frag timeout 1000 ms
>     0/0 fragments/bytes in reassembly list
>     16890 lost fragments, 357474026 reordered
>     7820/896328 discarded fragments/bytes, 0 lost received
>     0xD2B4CA received sequence, 0x8EC33D sent sequence
>   Member links: 2 active, 0 inactive (max not set, min not set)
>     Se4/0:0, since 2d01h
>     Se2/3:0, since 2d01h
> No inactive multilink interfaces
> 
> MTP-C72-02#sh run int ser 4/0:0
> Building configuration...
> 
> Current configuration : 258 bytes
> !
> interface Serial4/0:0
>  description Tellcom 2Maltepe-Adana 2Mbps LL DATA NO:0107110068
>  mtu 1600
>  no ip address
>  ip mtu 1500
>  encapsulation ppp
>  load-interval 30
>  mpls label protocol ldp
>  tag-switching mtu 1524
>  tag-switching ip
>  ppp multilink group 1
> end
> 
> MTP-C72-02#sh run int ser 2/3:0
> Building configuration...
> 
> Current configuration : 264 bytes
> !
> interface Serial2/3:0
>  description Tellcom Maltepe-Adana 2Mbps LL DATA NO:0107110060
>  mtu 1600
>  no ip address
>  encapsulation ppp
>  load-interval 30
>  mpls label protocol ldp
>  tag-switching mtu 1524
>  tag-switching ip
>  fair-queue 64 16 0
>  ppp multilink group 1
> end
> MTP-C72-02#sh run int ser 4/0:0
> Building configuration...
> 
> Current configuration : 258 bytes
> !
> interface Serial4/0:0
>  description Tellcom 2Maltepe-Adana 2Mbps LL DATA NO:0107110068
>  mtu 1600
>  no ip address
>  ip mtu 1500
>  encapsulation ppp
>  load-interval 30
>  mpls label protocol ldp
>  tag-switching mtu 1524
>  tag-switching ip
>  ppp multilink group 1
> end
> 
> MTP-C72-02#sh run int ser 2/3:0
> Building configuration...
> 
> Current configuration : 264 bytes
> !
> interface Serial2/3:0
>  description Tellcom Maltepe-Adana 2Mbps LL DATA NO:0107110060
>  mtu 1600
>  no ip address
>  encapsulation ppp
>  load-interval 30
>  mpls label protocol ldp
>  tag-switching mtu 1524
>  tag-switching ip
>  fair-queue 64 16 0
>  ppp multilink group 1
> end
> 
> 
> ADN-C38-01#sh run int mu 1
> Building configuration...
> 
> Current configuration : 244 bytes
> !
> interface Multilink1
>  description Adana - Maltepe MLPPP
>  mtu 1600
>  ip address 85.29.8.102 255.255.255.252
>  ip mtu 1500
>  mpls label protocol ldp
>  mpls ip
>  mpls mtu 1524
>  ppp multilink
>  ppp multilink group 1
>  ppp multilink mrru local 1604
> end
> 
> ADN-C38-01#sh ppp mu
> 
> Multilink1, bundle name is MTP-C72-02
>   Endpoint discriminator is MTP-C72-02
>   Bundle up for 2d01h, total bandwidth 4096, load 186/255
>   Receive buffer limit 25664 bytes, frag timeout 1000 ms
>     0/0 fragments/bytes in reassembly list
>     42246 lost fragments, 185970460 reordered
>     35687/1919036 discarded fragments/bytes, 0 lost received
>     0x9256EA received sequence, 0xD6C17F sent sequence
>   Member links: 2 active, 0 inactive (max not set, min not set)
>     Se0/0/1:0, since 2d01h
>     Se0/0/0:0, since 2d01h
> No inactive multilink interfaces
> ADN-C38-01#sh run int ser 0/0/0:0
> Building configuration...
> 
> Current configuration : 241 bytes
> !
> interface Serial0/0/0:0
>  description Tellcom Adana-Maltepe 2Mbps LL DATA NO:0107110060
>  mtu 1600
>  no ip address
>  ip mtu 1500
>  encapsulation ppp
>  load-interval 30
>  mpls label protocol ldp
>  mpls ip
>  mpls mtu 1524
>  ppp multilink group 1
> end
> 
> ADN-C38-01#sh run int ser 0/0/1:0
> Building configuration...
> 
> Current configuration : 265 bytes
> !
> interface Serial0/0/1:0
>  description Tellcom 2Adana-Maltepe 2Mbps LL DATA NO:0107110068
>  mtu 1600
>  no ip address
>  ip mtu 1500
>  encapsulation ppp
>  no ip route-cache cef
>  load-interval 30
>  mpls label protocol ldp
>  mpls ip
>  mpls mtu 1524
>  ppp multilink group 1
> end
> 
> Thanks for your help
> Kind Regards
> Arda
> 
> On 8/29/07, Rodney Dunn <rodunn at cisco.com> wrote:
> 
>     Do you have a TAC SR open on this?
>    
>     I just saw someone ask this a few days ago and I told them it's
>     a bug.
>    
>     We support CEF switching of data over a MLPPP bundle with
>     MPLS.
>    
>    
>     Are you running MPLSoMLPPP or are you just running the MLPPP
>     interface in a VRF?
>    
>     > MTP-C72-02#sh inter mul 1 switching
>     > Multilink1 Maltepe - Adana MLPPP
>     >           Throttle count          0
>     >                    Drops         RP     752707         SP          0
>     >              SPD Flushes       Fast          0        SSE          0
>     >              SPD Aggress       Fast          0
>     >             SPD Priority     Inputs        259      Drops          0
>     >
>     >     Protocol  IP
>     >           Switching path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>     >                  Process   50148189  395174672     261949   26235771
>     >             Cache misses          0          -          -          -
>     >                     Fast       1325     105874      12194     724886
>     >                Auton/SSE          0          0          0          0
>     >
>     >     Protocol  Tag
>     >           Switching path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>     >                  Process   79390997 3601460527       5116     538398
>     >             Cache misses          0          -          -          -
>     >                     Fast          0          0   87354606 4071850482
>     >                Auton/SSE          0          0          0          0
>    
>    
>     shows you are process switching a ton of your IP traffic and all
>     of the inbound MPLS traffic.
>    
>     Outbound your mpls traffic is fine so we need to look at the inbound
>     switching vectors coming in the MLPPP interface.
>    
>     As Bruce said can you get 'sh cef in mu 1'?
>    
>     Also, post the configs of the mlppp interface as well as the other
>     interfaces this traffic will go out of once it comes in the MLPPP
>     interface?
>    
>     Rodney
>    
>    
>    
>    
>     On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:15:19PM +0300, Arda Balkanay wrote:
>     > Hi
>     > i have a problem about high cpu usage on a 7206 VXR NPE-G1 because of
>     > process switching on a multilink ppp interface.
>     >
>     > I have two E1 interfaces between 7206 and 3845 (below MTP-C72-02
>     indicates
>     > 7206 and ADN-C38-01 indicates 3845).
>     > I've bundled these two E1 interfaces. And when the amount of traffic
>     rised
>     > CPU usage also increased about 15 percent more.
>     > "show proc cpu" output points increase at the processes of ip input and
>     tag
>     > input.
>     > MTP-C72-02#sh proc cpu sorted
>     > CPU utilization for five seconds: 78%/64%; one minute: 79%; five minutes:
>     > 81%
>     >  PID Runtime(ms)   Invoked      uSecs   5Sec   1Min   5Min TTY Process
>     >   68    39242000 258183793        151  8.92%  8.20%  8.40%   0 IP
>     > Input
>     >  109    25093708 119681214        209   6.88%  7.37%  7.79%   0 Tag Input
>     >
>     >
>     > When i looked at the switching status of the interface i saw that 7206 is
>     > using process switching while 3845 uses fast switchig (especially for
>     mpls)
>     > MTP-C72-02#sh inter mul 1 switching
>     > Multilink1 Maltepe - Adana MLPPP
>     >           Throttle count          0
>     >                    Drops         RP     752707         SP          0
>     >              SPD Flushes       Fast          0        SSE          0
>     >              SPD Aggress       Fast          0
>     >             SPD Priority     Inputs        259      Drops          0
>     >
>     >     Protocol  IP
>     >           Switching path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>     >                  Process   50148189  395174672     261949   26235771
>     >             Cache misses          0          -          -          -
>     >                     Fast       1325     105874      12194     724886
>     >                Auton/SSE          0          0          0          0
>     >
>     >     Protocol  Tag
>     >           Switching path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>     >                  Process   79390997 3601460527       5116     538398
>     >             Cache misses          0          -          -          -
>     >                     Fast          0          0   87354606 4071850482
>     >                Auton/SSE          0          0          0          0
>     >
>     >
>     > ADN-C38-01#sh inter mu 1 switching
>     > Multilink1 Adana - Maltepe MLPPP
>     >           Throttle count          0
>     >                    Drops         RP          0         SP          0
>     >              SPD Flushes       Fast          0        SSE          0
>     >              SPD Aggress       Fast          0
>     >             SPD Priority     Inputs        242      Drops          0
>     >
>     >     Protocol  IP
>     >           Switching path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>     >                  Process      32394    2110804      17595    1260300
>     >             Cache misses          0          -          -          -
>     >                     Fast     559376   60411948        154       8439
>     >                Auton/SSE          0          0          0          0
>     >
>     >     Protocol  Tag
>     >           Switching path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>     >                  Process       7106     398899      10784     539203
>     >             Cache misses          0          -          -          -
>     >                     Fast   87130476 3140243335   80454345  488241675
>     >                Auton/SSE          0          0          0          0
>     >
>     >
>     > When i checked "show ip interface" output i can see that fast swithing is
>     > enabled but i didn't understand why 7206 uses process switching while
>     3845
>     > uses fast
>     > swithcing with the same multilink interface configuration. ip interface
>     > output is as follows:
>     >
>     > MTP-C72-02#sh ip int mu 1
>     > Multilink1 is up, line protocol is up
>     > ...
>     >   IP fast switching is enabled
>     >   IP fast switching on the same interface is enabled
>     >   IP Flow switching is disabled
>     >   IP CEF switching is enabled
>     >   IP CEF Fast switching turbo vector
>     >   IP Null turbo vector
>     >   IP multicast fast switching is enabled
>     >   IP multicast distributed fast switching is disabled
>     >   IP route-cache flags are Fast, CEF
>     >   ...
>     > MTP-C72-02#
>     >
>     > ADN-C38-01#sh ip int mu 1
>     > Multilink1 is up, line protocol is up
>     >   ...
>     >   IP fast switching is enabled
>     >   IP fast switching on the same interface is enabled
>     >   IP Flow switching is disabled
>     >   IP CEF switching is enabled
>     >   IP CEF Fast switching turbo vector
>     >   IP multicast fast switching is enabled
>     >   IP multicast distributed fast switching is disabled
>     >   IP route-cache flags are Fast, CEF
>     >   ...
>     > ADN-C38-01#
>     > 7206 uses ios c7200-jk9s-mz.123-14.T3.bin and 3845 uses
>     > c3845-spservicesk9-mz.124-8b.bin
>     >
>     >
>     > Do you have any idea about this situation ?
>     >
>     >
>     > Kind Regards
>     > Arda
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