#!/usr/bin/env python3 """Compares the speed and the cost of proxies on Linux: 3proxy versions, and other servers doing the same job. The client, the proxy and the origin each run in a network namespace of their own, linked by veth pairs, and in a cgroup of their own pinned to separate CPUs, so they neither share a loopback nor take CPU from each other, and the proxy's CPU time and memory can be read on their own. See README.md. Needs root, iproute2, iperf3, wrk and nginx (the origin); haproxy only when it is one of the proxies compared. sudo bench/bench.py --proxy 3proxy:bench/bin/3proxy-1.0.1 \\ --proxy 3proxy:bench/bin/3proxy-devel --proxy nginx --proxy none """ import argparse import csv import datetime import json import os import re import resource import shutil import signal import statistics import subprocess import sys import tempfile import time CG = "/sys/fs/cgroup/3proxy-bench" # client 10.0.1.2 -- 10.0.1.1 proxy 10.0.2.1 -- 10.0.2.2 origin CLI_ADDR, PRX_IN, PRX_OUT, SRV_ADDR = "10.0.1.2", "10.0.1.1", "10.0.2.1", "10.0.2.2" HTTP_PORT, TCP_PORT, ORIGIN_HTTP, ORIGIN_TCP = 3128, 5201, 8080, 5201 FILES = {"1k": 1024, "100k": 100 * 1024, "1m": 1024 * 1024} # name: (kind, parameters) SCENARIOS = { "stream1": ("stream", {"streams": 1}), "stream16": ("stream", {"streams": 16}), "stream1-down": ("stream", {"streams": 1, "reverse": True}), "http-ka-1k": ("http", {"file": "1k", "conns": 64}), "http-ka-1m": ("http", {"file": "1m", "conns": 16}), "http-close-1k": ("http", {"file": "1k", "conns": 64, "close": True}), } def sh(cmd, check=True, **kw): return subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True, check=check, text=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, **kw).stdout def cpulist(spec): cpus = [] for part in spec.split(","): a, _, b = part.partition("-") cpus.extend(range(int(a), int(b or a) + 1)) return cpus def cpumask(spec): return "%x" % sum(1 << c for c in cpulist(spec)) # --- namespaces -------------------------------------------------------------- def net_up(args): net_down() for ns in ("bcli", "bprx", "bsrv"): sh(f"ip netns add {ns}") sh(f"ip -n {ns} link set lo up") sh("ip link add bc0 netns bcli type veth peer name bp0 netns bprx") sh("ip link add bp1 netns bprx type veth peer name bs0 netns bsrv") for ns, dev, addr in (("bcli", "bc0", CLI_ADDR), ("bprx", "bp0", PRX_IN), ("bprx", "bp1", PRX_OUT), ("bsrv", "bs0", SRV_ADDR)): sh(f"ip -n {ns} addr add {addr}/24 dev {dev}") sh(f"ip -n {ns} link set {dev} mtu {args.mtu} up") # the direct baseline goes through the proxy namespace, routed by the # kernel sh(f"ip -n bcli route add 10.0.2.0/24 via {PRX_IN}") sh(f"ip -n bsrv route add 10.0.1.0/24 via {PRX_OUT}") sh("ip netns exec bprx sysctl -qw net.ipv4.ip_forward=1") for ns in ("bcli", "bprx", "bsrv"): sh(f"ip netns exec {ns} sysctl -qw net.core.somaxconn=65535 " "net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=65535 net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1 " "net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range='1024 65535'") # A veth hands what it receives to the CPU that sent it; steer it to the # receiver's own CPUs instead. for ns, dev, role in (("bcli", "bc0", "cli"), ("bprx", "bp0", "prx"), ("bprx", "bp1", "prx"), ("bsrv", "bs0", "srv")): sh(f"ip netns exec {ns} sh -c 'echo {cpumask(args.cpus[role])} " f"> /sys/class/net/{dev}/queues/rx-0/rps_cpus'", check=False) if args.netem: for ns, dev in (("bcli", "bc0"), ("bprx", "bp0")): sh(f"ip netns exec {ns} tc qdisc add dev {dev} root netem {args.netem}") def net_down(): for ns in ("bcli", "bprx", "bsrv"): sh(f"ip netns del {ns}", check=False) # --- cgroups ----------------------------------------------------------------- def cg_write(path, value): with open(path, "w") as f: f.write(value) def cg_read(path): with open(path) as f: return f.read() def cg_up(args): os.makedirs(CG, exist_ok=True) cg_write("/sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control", "+cpuset +cpu +memory") cg_write(f"{CG}/cgroup.subtree_control", "+cpuset +cpu +memory") for role in ("cli", "srv"): cg_make(role, args.cpus[role]) def cg_make(role, cpus): path = f"{CG}/{role}" os.makedirs(path, exist_ok=True) cg_write(f"{path}/cpuset.cpus", cpus) return path def cg_remove(role): path = f"{CG}/{role}" if not os.path.isdir(path): return for _ in range(50): try: os.rmdir(path) return except OSError: time.sleep(0.1) def cg_down(): for role in ("cli", "prx", "srv"): cg_remove(role) try: os.rmdir(CG) except OSError: pass def cg_usage(role): """CPU seconds used so far by everything in the cgroup.""" for line in cg_read(f"{CG}/{role}/cpu.stat").splitlines(): name, value = line.split() if name == "usage_usec": return int(value) / 1e6 return 0.0 def cg_peak(role): try: return int(cg_read(f"{CG}/{role}/memory.peak")) / 2**20 except OSError: return float("nan") # --- processes --------------------------------------------------------------- def spawn(ns, role, argv, log): """Start a process in a namespace and a cgroup; threads it starts stay there with it.""" procs = f"{CG}/{role}/cgroup.procs" def enter(): cg_write(procs, str(os.getpid())) resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE, (1048576, 1048576)) os.setsid() return subprocess.Popen(["ip", "netns", "exec", ns] + argv, stdout=log, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, preexec_fn=enter) def run_in(ns, role, argv, timeout): p = spawn(ns, role, argv, subprocess.PIPE) out, _ = p.communicate(timeout=timeout) return out.decode("utf-8", "replace") def stop(p): if p and p.poll() is None: try: os.killpg(p.pid, signal.SIGTERM) p.wait(timeout=5) except (ProcessLookupError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired): try: os.killpg(p.pid, signal.SIGKILL) except ProcessLookupError: pass p.wait() def wait_port(ns, addr, port, timeout=10): deadline = time.time() + timeout while time.time() < deadline: # /dev/tcp is bash's if subprocess.run(["ip", "netns", "exec", ns, "bash", "-c", f"exec 3<>/dev/tcp/{addr}/{port}"], stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL).returncode == 0: return True time.sleep(0.1) return False # --- the origin -------------------------------------------------------------- def origin_up(args, work): www = os.path.join(work, "www") os.makedirs(www, exist_ok=True) for name, size in FILES.items(): with open(os.path.join(www, name), "wb") as f: f.write(b"x" * size) n = len(cpulist(args.cpus["srv"])) conf = os.path.join(work, "origin.conf") with open(conf, "w") as f: f.write(f"""daemon off; worker_processes {n}; pid {work}/origin.pid; error_log {work}/origin.err; worker_rlimit_nofile 1048576; events {{ worker_connections 65536; }} http {{ access_log off; sendfile on; tcp_nopush on; keepalive_requests 1000000; keepalive_timeout 120s; server {{ listen {SRV_ADDR}:{ORIGIN_HTTP} backlog=65535 reuseport; root {www}; default_type application/octet-stream; }} }} """) log = open(os.path.join(work, "origin.out"), "w") procs = [spawn("bsrv", "srv", ["nginx", "-c", conf, "-p", work], log), spawn("bsrv", "srv", ["iperf3", "-s", "-B", SRV_ADDR, "-p", str(ORIGIN_TCP)], log)] if not (wait_port("bsrv", SRV_ADDR, ORIGIN_HTTP) and wait_port("bsrv", SRV_ADDR, ORIGIN_TCP)): sys.exit("the origin did not start, see " + work) return procs # --- proxies ----------------------------------------------------------------- def proxy_conf(kind, work, ncpu, label, opts=""): """Configuration for one proxy: an HTTP proxy on HTTP_PORT and a TCP relay on TCP_PORT, both towards the origin. Returns the argv. opts are added to both 3proxy services, e.g. -s0 to keep a version from using splice().""" if kind == "3proxy": conf = os.path.join(work, f"{label}.cfg") with open(conf, "w") as f: f.write(f"""maxconn 100000 auth none proxy {opts} -i{PRX_IN} -e{PRX_OUT} -p{HTTP_PORT} tcppm {opts} -i{PRX_IN} -e{PRX_OUT} {TCP_PORT} {SRV_ADDR} {ORIGIN_TCP} """) return [conf] if kind == "nginx": conf = os.path.join(work, f"{label}.conf") with open(conf, "w") as f: # distributions build the stream module as a dynamic one stream = "/usr/lib/nginx/modules/ngx_stream_module.so" load = f"load_module {stream};\n" if os.path.exists(stream) else "" f.write(f"""{load}daemon off; worker_processes {ncpu}; pid {work}/{label}.pid; error_log {work}/{label}.err; worker_rlimit_nofile 1048576; events {{ worker_connections 65536; }} http {{ access_log off; upstream origin {{ server {SRV_ADDR}:{ORIGIN_HTTP}; keepalive 1024; }} server {{ listen {PRX_IN}:{HTTP_PORT} backlog=65535 reuseport; keepalive_requests 1000000; location / {{ proxy_pass http://origin; proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header Connection ""; proxy_bind {PRX_OUT}; }} }} }} stream {{ server {{ listen {PRX_IN}:{TCP_PORT} backlog=65535 reuseport; proxy_pass {SRV_ADDR}:{ORIGIN_TCP}; proxy_bind {PRX_OUT}; }} }} """) return ["-c", conf, "-p", work] if kind == "haproxy": conf = os.path.join(work, f"{label}.cfg") with open(conf, "w") as f: f.write(f"""global nbthread {ncpu} maxconn 200000 defaults timeout connect 5s timeout client 60s timeout server 60s frontend http mode http bind {PRX_IN}:{HTTP_PORT} option http-keep-alive default_backend origin backend origin mode http http-reuse always source {PRX_OUT} server origin {SRV_ADDR}:{ORIGIN_HTTP} listen tcp mode tcp bind {PRX_IN}:{TCP_PORT} source {PRX_OUT} server origin {SRV_ADDR}:{ORIGIN_TCP} """) return ["-f", conf] raise ValueError(kind) class Proxy: def __init__(self, spec): kind, _, path = spec.partition(":") self.kind = kind self.opts = "" if kind == "3proxy": path, _, self.opts = path.partition(":") if not path: sys.exit("--proxy 3proxy:[:]") self.binary = os.path.abspath(path) self.label = os.path.basename(path) + (self.opts.replace(" ", "") if self.opts else "") elif kind in ("nginx", "haproxy"): self.binary = path or shutil.which(kind) self.label = kind elif kind == "none": self.binary = None self.label = "direct" else: sys.exit("unknown proxy " + spec) def start(self, args, work): cg_remove("prx") cg_make("prx", args.cpus["prx"]) if self.kind == "none": return None argv = [self.binary] + proxy_conf(self.kind, work, len(cpulist(args.cpus["prx"])), self.label, self.opts) log = open(os.path.join(work, self.label + ".out"), "a") p = spawn("bprx", "prx", argv, log) if not (wait_port("bcli", PRX_IN, HTTP_PORT) and wait_port("bcli", PRX_IN, TCP_PORT)): stop(p) sys.exit(f"{self.label} did not start, see {work}") return p # --- load -------------------------------------------------------------------- WRK_SCRIPT = """ local path, close = "%s", %s local headers = {["Host"] = "%s:%d"} if close then headers["Connection"] = "close" end local req = wrk.format("GET", path, headers) request = function() return req end """ UNITS = {"": 1, "k": 1e3, "K": 1e3, "M": 1e6, "G": 1e9, "KB": 2**10, "MB": 2**20, "GB": 2**30, "B": 1} def to_ms(text): m = re.match(r"([\d.]+)(us|ms|s|m)", text) v, u = float(m.group(1)), m.group(2) return v * {"us": 1e-3, "ms": 1, "s": 1e3, "m": 6e4}[u] def run_http(proxy, params, args, work): direct = proxy.kind == "none" host = SRV_ADDR if direct else PRX_IN port = ORIGIN_HTTP if direct else HTTP_PORT path = "/" + params["file"] if not direct: path = f"http://{SRV_ADDR}:{ORIGIN_HTTP}{path}" script = os.path.join(work, "wrk.lua") with open(script, "w") as f: f.write(WRK_SCRIPT % (path, "true" if params.get("close") else "false", SRV_ADDR, ORIGIN_HTTP)) threads = len(cpulist(args.cpus["cli"])) conns = max(params["conns"], threads) out = run_in("bcli", "cli", ["wrk", "-t", str(threads), "-c", str(conns), "-d", f"{args.duration}s", "--latency", "-s", script, f"http://{host}:{port}/"], args.duration + 30) res = {"raw": out} m = re.search(r"(\d+) requests in", out) res["requests"] = int(m.group(1)) if m else 0 m = re.search(r"Requests/sec:\s+([\d.]+)", out) res["rate"] = float(m.group(1)) if m else 0.0 m = re.search(r"Transfer/sec:\s+([\d.]+)(\w+)", out) res["gbit"] = float(m.group(1)) * UNITS[m.group(2)] * 8 / 1e9 if m else 0.0 for pct in ("50", "99"): m = re.search(rf"^\s+{pct}%\s+(\S+)", out, re.M) res[f"p{pct}_ms"] = to_ms(m.group(1)) if m else float("nan") errors = 0 m = re.search(r"Socket errors: connect (\d+), read (\d+), write (\d+), timeout (\d+)", out) if m: errors += sum(int(x) for x in m.groups()) m = re.search(r"Non-2xx or 3xx responses: (\d+)", out) if m: errors += int(m.group(1)) res["errors"] = errors res["retrans"] = 0 res["bytes"] = res["gbit"] * 1e9 / 8 * args.duration return res def run_stream(proxy, params, args, work): direct = proxy.kind == "none" host = SRV_ADDR if direct else PRX_IN port = ORIGIN_TCP if direct else TCP_PORT argv = ["iperf3", "-c", host, "-p", str(port), "-t", str(args.duration), "-P", str(params["streams"]), "-J"] if params.get("reverse"): argv.append("-R") out = run_in("bcli", "cli", argv, args.duration + 30) res = {"raw": out, "rate": float("nan"), "p50_ms": float("nan"), "p99_ms": float("nan"), "requests": 0, "errors": 0, "retrans": 0} try: j = json.loads(out) s = j["end"]["sum_received"] res["gbit"] = s["bits_per_second"] / 1e9 res["bytes"] = s["bytes"] res["retrans"] = j["end"].get("sum_sent", {}).get("retransmits", 0) if "error" in j: res["errors"] = 1 except (ValueError, KeyError): res["gbit"], res["bytes"], res["errors"] = 0.0, 0, 1 return res def measure(proxy, scenario, args, work): kind, params = SCENARIOS[scenario] p = proxy.start(args, work) try: time.sleep(0.5) before = {r: cg_usage(r) for r in ("cli", "prx", "srv")} t0 = time.time() res = (run_http if kind == "http" else run_stream)(proxy, params, args, work) wall = time.time() - t0 after = {r: cg_usage(r) for r in ("cli", "prx", "srv")} res["peak_mb"] = cg_peak("prx") finally: stop(p) for r in ("cli", "prx", "srv"): used = after[r] - before[r] res[f"{r}_cpu_s"] = used # share of the CPUs given to that role, to see which side was the limit res[f"{r}_util"] = used / (wall * len(cpulist(args.cpus[r]))) gb = res["bytes"] / 1e9 res["cpu_s_per_gb"] = res["prx_cpu_s"] / gb if gb else float("nan") res["cpu_us_per_req"] = (res["prx_cpu_s"] * 1e6 / res["requests"] if res["requests"] else float("nan")) return res # --- main -------------------------------------------------------------------- FIELDS = ["proxy", "scenario", "rep", "gbit", "rate", "p50_ms", "p99_ms", "errors", "retrans", "prx_cpu_s", "cpu_s_per_gb", "cpu_us_per_req", "peak_mb", "cli_util", "prx_util", "srv_util"] def summary(rows): keys = [] for r in rows: if (r["proxy"], r["scenario"]) not in keys: keys.append((r["proxy"], r["scenario"])) cols = ["gbit", "rate", "p99_ms", "cpu_s_per_gb", "cpu_us_per_req", "peak_mb", "prx_util", "cli_util", "srv_util", "errors"] print("\nmedians (" + ", ".join(cols) + ")") print("%-24s %-14s " % ("proxy", "scenario") + " ".join("%10s" % c[:10] for c in cols)) for proxy, scenario in sorted(keys, key=lambda k: (k[1], k[0])): sel = [r for r in rows if r["proxy"] == proxy and r["scenario"] == scenario] vals = [] for c in cols: xs = [r[c] for r in sel if r[c] == r[c]] vals.append("%10.3g" % statistics.median(xs) if xs else "%10s" % "-") print("%-24s %-14s " % (proxy, scenario) + " ".join(vals)) def main(): ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__.split("\n\n")[0]) ap.add_argument("--proxy", action="append", required=True, help="3proxy:[:], nginx[:], haproxy[:] " "or none (the kernel routing, an upper bound); repeat") ap.add_argument("--scenario", action="append", choices=sorted(SCENARIOS), help="default: all") ap.add_argument("--reps", type=int, default=3) ap.add_argument("--duration", type=int, default=10, help="seconds per run") ap.add_argument("--cpus", default="cli=0-3,prx=4-5,srv=6-7", help="CPUs per role (default %(default)s)") ap.add_argument("--mtu", type=int, default=1500) ap.add_argument("--netem", help='netem on the client link, e.g. "delay 1ms rate 10gbit"') ap.add_argument("--out", default="bench/results", help="directory for the CSV and logs") args = ap.parse_args() if os.geteuid(): sys.exit("needs root") args.cpus = dict(x.split("=") for x in args.cpus.split(",")) proxies = [Proxy(s) for s in args.proxy] scenarios = args.scenario or list(SCENARIOS) stamp = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S") os.makedirs(args.out, exist_ok=True) work = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="3proxy-bench-") os.chmod(work, 0o755) csvpath = os.path.join(args.out, f"{stamp}.csv") rawpath = os.path.join(args.out, f"{stamp}.raw.txt") with open(os.path.join(args.out, f"{stamp}.env.txt"), "w") as f: f.write(" ".join(sys.argv) + "\n") f.write(sh("uname -a; lscpu | head -20; nproc; " "cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor 2>/dev/null; " "iperf3 --version | head -1; wrk -v 2>&1 | head -1; nginx -v 2>&1; " "haproxy -v 2>/dev/null | head -1", check=False)) rows = [] origin = [] try: net_up(args) cg_up(args) origin = origin_up(args, work) with open(csvpath, "w", newline="") as f, open(rawpath, "w") as raw: w = csv.DictWriter(f, FIELDS, extrasaction="ignore") w.writeheader() # Every repetition runs each proxy once, rotating the order, so a # drift over time is shared by all of them. for rep in range(args.reps): for scenario in scenarios: order = proxies[rep % len(proxies):] + proxies[:rep % len(proxies)] for proxy in order: res = measure(proxy, scenario, args, work) res.update(proxy=proxy.label, scenario=scenario, rep=rep) rows.append(res) w.writerow(res) f.flush() raw.write(f"=== {proxy.label} {scenario} {rep}\n{res['raw']}\n") print("%-24s %-14s rep %d: %7.2f Gbit/s %10.0f req/s proxy cpu %5.2fs " "util cli %3.0f%% prx %3.0f%% srv %3.0f%% errors %d" % ( proxy.label, scenario, rep, res["gbit"], res["rate"] if res["rate"] == res["rate"] else 0, res["prx_cpu_s"], res["cli_util"] * 100, res["prx_util"] * 100, res["srv_util"] * 100, res["errors"]), flush=True) finally: for p in origin: stop(p) cg_down() net_down() summary(rows) print(f"\n{csvpath}\nlogs and configurations: {work}") if __name__ == "__main__": main()