[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (WFWIP-160) Fix throughput and response time differences between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3

[Farah Juma (Jira)]

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Farah Juma commented on WFWIP-160:
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Thanks, [~dmlloyd]. +1, it would be interesting to compare against OpenSSL performance. We just need to first update {{wildfly-openssl}} to make it possible to make use of TLSv1.3.

[~aph] As described in Richard's [previous comment|https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFWIP-160?focusedCommentId=13815798&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13815798] and in David's [previous comment|https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFWIP-160?focusedCommentId=13818164&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13818164], we are running into a performance issue in Undertow with TLSv1.3 and JDK 11. However, performance seems to improve when switching to JDK 13.0.1. What are your thoughts on this? Would it be possible to backport TLS performance improvements that have been made in newer versions to jdk11u? 

> Fix throughput and response time differences between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: WFWIP-160
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFWIP-160
>             Project: WildFly WIP
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: Web (Undertow)
>            Reporter: Farah Juma
>            Assignee: Richard Opalka
>            Priority: Blocker
>         Attachments: jstourac-report.zip, performance-hotspot.png, results-tlsv12.zip, results-tlsv13.zip
>
>
> Performance with TLS 1.3 on WildFly appears to be worse than with TLS 1.2. In particular, throughput is much lower (roughly three times lower) and response time is much higher (roughly three times higher), which is not supposed to be the case. The underlying issue seems to be in Undertow or XNIO, that is the code that actually gets invoked during the TLS handshake process. Looking at CPU time, there is significantly more time being spent in [io.undertow.protocols.ssl.SslConduit$5.run()|https://github.com/undertow-io/undertow/blob/master/core/src/main/java/io/undertow/protocols/ssl/SslConduit.java#L1070-L1103] with TLS 1.3 than with TLS 1.2.
> Steps to reproduce (taken from EAP7-1022):
> 1. Build WildFly using the following feature branches or download a QE build of WildFly [here|https://eap-qe-jenkins.rhev-ci-vms.eng.rdu2.redhat.com/job/undertow-custom-server-build/53/artifact/wildfly/dist/target/wildfly-17.0.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT.zip]:
> https://github.com/fjuma/wildfly-elytron/tree/ELY-1706
> https://github.com/fjuma/wildfly-core/tree/WFCORE-4172 (Update the Elytron version in the pom.xml file to use the version built in the previous step)
> https://github.com/fjuma/wildfly/tree/WFCORE-4172 (Update the Core version in the pom.xml file to use the version built in the previous step)
> 2. Download and unzip JMeter from https://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi
> 3. Download attached test plan [TLSv1.3.jmx|https://issues.jboss.org/secure/attachment/12449098/12449098_TLSv1.3.jmx]
> 4. Start server with JDK11 and configure with TLSv1.3:
> {code}
> $ JAVA_HOME=/path/to/java/openjdk-11.0.2 <EAP_HOME>/bin/standalone.sh
> $ <EAP_HOME>/bin/jboss-cli.sh -c
> /subsystem=elytron/key-store=tls13:add(path=keystore.jks,relative-to=jboss.server.config.dir,credential-reference={clear-text=secret},type=JKS)
> /subsystem=elytron/key-store=tls13:generate-key-pair(alias=localhost,algorithm=RSA,key-size=1024,validity=365,credential-reference={clear-text=secret},distinguished-name="CN=localhost")
> /subsystem=elytron/key-store=tls13:store()
> /subsystem=elytron/key-manager=tls13:add(key-store=tls13,credential-reference={clear-text=secret})
> /subsystem=elytron/server-ssl-context=tls13:add(key-manager=tls13,protocols=["TLSv1.3"])
> batch
> /subsystem=undertow/server=default-server/https-listener=https:undefine-attribute(name=security-realm)
> /subsystem=undertow/server=default-server/https-listener=https:write-attribute(name=ssl-context,value=tls13)
> run-batch
> reload
> {code}
> 5. Start jmeter with JDK 11 and downloaded test plan
> {code}
> export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/java/openjdk-11.0.2; bin/jmeter -n -t TLSv1.3.jmx -e -l tlsv13.log -o results-tlsv13
> {code}
> 6. Set server to use TLSv1.2
> {code}
> /subsystem=elytron/server-ssl-context=tls13:write-attribute(name=protocols,value=["TLSv1.2"])
> reload
> {code}
> 7. Repeat same for TLSv1.2
> {code}
> export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/java/openjdk-11.0.2; bin/jmeter -n -t TLSv1.3.jmx -e -l tlsv12.log -o results-tlsv12
> {code}
> 8. Compare results (there will be an index.html file in the results-tlsv12 and results-tlsv13 directories)



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