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Buffer-to-Buffer Credits, Exchanges, and Urban Legends
Lou Ricci, EMCHoward L. Johnson, Brocade
14 August 2013 (8:00am – 9:00am)Session 14281
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Abstract
• Performance in a FICON network is influenced by the underlying flow control mechanisms of Fibre Channel. In this session, we examine how Buffer-to-Buffer credits flow from the channel to the control unit. We also look at how exchanges are used in FICON applications and how they change with the introduction of zHPF. During both examinations, we explore the role of the FICON Director in managing Buffer-to-Buffer credits and exchanges over a cascaded network. Throughout the session, we debunk the various FICON “Urban Legends” featuring credits and exchanges. Take the opportunity to learn from two of the FICON industry’s leading experts in channel and fabric development and join our session.
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Agenda
• Buffer Credits• What are they and how do they work?
• How do you fill the pipe?• What if you can’t fill the pipe?• What’s wrong with multiple senders and one receiver?• What happens when the pipes are different sizes?• What’s it like in the real world?
• Exchanges• What are they and how do they work?
• What’s an Exchange?• How many exchanges are needed?• Can they be "reused?”• Can you have too many exchanges?
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BUFFER CREDITSWhat are they and how do they work?
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What is Buffer-to-Buffer Credit?
• The greater the BB Credit….• A. The faster frames can be sent• B. The farther apart the two ports can be• C. The larger the frames can be• D. None of the above
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What is Buffer-to-Buffer Credit?
• The greater the BB Credit….• A.• B. The farther apart the two ports can be• C.• D.
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Flow Control
• Related to the devices’ ability to receive and process frames• Manages when frames are coming faster than they can be processed• Dropped frames occur when frames are arriving too fast to be processed
• Frames can only be transmitted when the receiver is ready• Credit establishment communicates the number of frames a device can receive at a time• The credit value is exchanged at login• Transmission stops when credit runs out• The receiver indicates when it is ready to receive more frames
Credit exchange at Fabric Login
Host says, “I can receive 40 frames.”
Switch says, “I can receive 8 frames.”
Storage says, “I can receive 16 frames.”
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Buffer Credit
• At initialization, the two ports establish credit• Each buffer credit corresponds to a frame (regardless of size)
• Each side can support different values• Credit Count
• If a port doesn’t have credit, it can’t send a frame• Credit Count has reached zero
• Mechanism limits frame drops
Credit accounting after Fabric Login
Host thinks, “Good, I can send 8 frames without thinking about it.”
Storage thinks, “Good, I can send 8 frames without thinking about it.”
Switch thinks, “OK, I can send 40 frames that way and 16 frames this way, but I have to think about it.”
Credit Count8
Credit Count8
Credit Count40
Credit Count16
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Receiver Ready (R_RDY)
• R_RDY• Used for link level flow control• Called buffer-to-buffer credit (BB
Credit)• R_RDY is not a frame
• It is a “primitive” so it doesn’t consume a buffer
• Frame transmission• BB Credit is decremented
• Once for each frame transmitted• When BB Credit = 0
• Transmission stops• Frame received
• R_RDY is sent• Causes transmitter to increment BB
Credit
Credit Accounting during Transmission
Host says, “I can send 8 frames without stopping.”
Switch says, “I can 40 frames that way and 16 frames the other way without stopping.”
Storage says, “I can send 8 frames without stopping.”
Credit Count1
Credit Count40
Credit Count5
Credit Count16R_RDY
R_RDY
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Urban Legend:Buffer Credits at Zero are a Problem
• Buffer credit determines DISTANCE• The distance two nodes can be apart and still maintain full link frame rate
• Buffer credit is the number of FRAME buffers• A port provides for it’s NEAREST neighbor for RECEIVING frames• Does NOT have to be symmetrical
• Buffer credit is a FRAME count• Not a data SIZE• A 1 byte frame consumes 1 buffer credit• A 2K byte frame consumes 1 buffer credit
• Number of credits needed is determined by:• Raw Link Speed• Speed of light thru a fiber• Distance between two adjacent nodes
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How Long is a Fibre Channel Frame?
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BUFFER CREDITSExample: A full pipe
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Channel “Perfect” Switch Control Unit
Initial Conditions
Number of B-B Credits the switch advertised to the channel during link init
NOTE: In these animations, both the frames and R_RDY’s are numbered. This is for illustrative purposes only. In reality, neither the frames nor the R_RDY’s are numbered. The arrival of an R_RDY only informs the receiver that A frame has been forwarded, not WHICH frame has been forwarded.
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Slow Drainers• A device that delays the return of BB credit significantly slower than the desired load
• Moderate delays can cause performance impacts even to other uninvolved devices
• Severe delays can cause errors (IFCCs), even to other uninvolved devices
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What Can Be Done About A Slow Drainer?
• Difficult to identify the culprit– Sometimes issues are intermittent– There may be more than one gremlin
• Tools are available to help!– “Bottleneck Detection”
See Also:https://elabnavigator.emc.com/vault/pdf/FC_SAN.pdfhttps://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/sanblog/entry/how_to_deal_with_slow_drain_devices20?lang=enhttp://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/html_product_manuals/NA_SAN_1130/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm#href=Ch_Performance.31.7.html&single=true
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What Can Be Done About A Slow Drainer?
• Creates an alert when a port(s) have zero credit for a user selectable amount of time
• Use detection mechanisms to monitor ISLs portsand F_Ports
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SAN Performance Gotcha’s
• Oversubscription• Trying to send more than can be received
• Slow draining• Unable to receive what is being sent in a timely manner
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Culprits
• Oversubscription• Big pipe to small pipe
• Signal degradation• Failing SFP• Poor connections• Insufficient cable hygiene
• Unexpected slow down• Big pipe to small pipe (16G to 2G)• Narrow bridge (reduced ISL bandwidth)
• Odd stuff• Long links• Zoning conflicts• Invalid Attachment / Decommissioned Channel/CU Port• Queue depth
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Stuff to Look For
• Physical Errors• Detected (Obvious stuff)
• Logins & Logouts• Link Failures
• Undetected (Not Obvious)• CRC Errors
• Encoding errors (inside of a frame)
• Code Violation Errors• Loss of synchronization• Loss of signal
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• Logical Errors• Credit Starvation
• Time at zero credit• Link Resets• Class 3 Discards
• Response Times• High CMR• Exchange Completion
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BUFFER CREDITSOther Neat Stuff
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How Does Credit Affect Throughput?
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• Absolute Minimum Formula:
Number of credits needed = 1 + Link speed in Gb/s * Distance in KmAverage Frame Size in KB
How Much Credit Do I Need For A Given Distance?
This “1” is to account for the processing delay in a real device
This accounts for round trip time on the fiber
This is the HARD part
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How Should I Configure My BB Credit?
Local links under 1Km in length:– Even at 8G and small frame size, < 16 credits required
1 + ((8*1) / .8) = 11
Provision ISLs with extra headroom– Use formula, and round UP
1 + ((8*10) / 1.5) = 54
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EXCHANGES
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Urban Legend:FICON uses fewer Exchanges Than FCP
• In Ficon, each concurrent I/O operation uses two Exchanges• One unidirectional Exchange for IUs from the Channel to the CU• A different unidirectional Exchange for IUs from the CU to the
Channel
• The PAIR is commonly know as a “Ficon Exchange”
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How many Exchanges do I need?
• Little’s Law states:• The number of “things” in a system can be determined by multiplying the
average arrival rate of those “things” by the average time each “thing” stays in the system.
• Applied to Ficon:• The average number of Exchanges active at any given time =
Average I/O rate * Average response time
• Example: 5000 Ficon I/Os / Second on a given channel with .4ms service time1 needs 2 Active Exchanges (pairs) at any given time
1 The amount of time the I/O is active in the channel
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Urban Legend:Ficon is More Sensitive to Errors than FCP
• Is a Ficon frame more likely to get lost, damaged or corrupted than FCP?• No, the probability is the same
• When a Ficon frame gets lost, damaged or corrupted, is the recovery action different from FCP?• Not really. They are both retried, FCP by the Device Driver,
Ficon by IOS/ERP
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So What are the Differences?
• z Operating Systems tend to provide more detailed messages
• Ficon does provide additional debug data and actions• RNID• Link Error Status Blocks• Extensive State Change Processing
Source: FC-FS-3 INCITS/T11 Draft Standard v0.92
See www.t11.org
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Summary
• Buffer Credits• Distance• Flow Control
• Exchanges• Unidirectional• Bidirectional
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Wednesday August 14, 2013 -- 11:00pm to 12:00pm -- Session 14482
……Newly Scheduled Presentation……
Brocade SAN and FICON UpdatePlease consider attending to discover the innovation
of Brocade’s Gen 5 Fibre Channel Architecture
259© 2012-2013 Brocade - For Boston Summer SHARE 2013 Attendees
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REFERENCES
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Speaker Biography
• Lou Ricci• EMC
• 1 Year• IBM
• 34-years• 24-years in channel development• An inventor of FICON• FICON Firmware Team Leader
• Contact Information• [email protected]
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Speaker Biography
• Howard L. Johnson• BROCADE• Technology Architect, FICON
• 29 years technical development and management
• Contact Information• [email protected]
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BONUS SLIDES
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End to End Credit
• Device to Device Flow Control• Between source and destination
• Not the links• Similar to buffer-to-buffer flow control
• At N_Port Login• Report available receive buffers (EE_Credit)• Transmitter counts buffers transmitted (EE_Credit_CNT)• Receiver acknowledges frame (ACK)
• ACK 1 (a single data frame in a sequence) – most common• ACK n (several (N) consecutive data frames in a sequence)• ACK 0 (all data frames in a sequence) – not used
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Virtual Channels
• Technology to allocate BB_Credits to particular data flows• Class F traffic has one data flow• Assigned with Zoning by using special Zone names