Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:25:59 +0000
From:      "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org>, "jfv@FreeBSD.org" <jfv@freebsd.org>, "ricera10@gmail.com" <ricera10@gmail.com>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>, Giuseppe Lettieri <g.lettieri@iet.unipi.it>
Subject:   Re: ixl 40G bad performance?
Message-ID:  <12938D48-44B9-456A-AD7C-630D7E09BB35@netapp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20151020232218.G1833@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <79830D9D-94E6-47A9-92B9-D63DF5432272@netapp.com> <CA%2BhQ2%2Bj5PkmRWe-ydahExfvOj%2BzestFEn%2B5DZ9_acG2Z_v=8_w@mail.gmail.com> <C81B629B-67D5-4E5B-A215-452E837BE673@netapp.com> <CA%2BhQ2%2BiGk5Bx5mZ8v7K9cPdiNcJgBz99kmP8=twFnETw-bi2vw@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1uZJ5MhMdXLGy7REk8i6Z%2BjgJwMXFSu899%2BQwVaz%2BvP4w@mail.gmail.com> <20151020190541.B15983@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <6CD6754D-FC0E-4B24-AAEC-7C9D68284141@netapp.com> <20151020232218.G1833@besplex.bde.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--Apple-Mail=_0220844F-3D93-4781-B1B5-E7999C199CB0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset=us-ascii

Hi Bruce,

thanks for the very detailed analysis of the ixl sysctls!

On 2015-10-20, at 16:51, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>=20
> Lowering (improving) latency always lowers (unimproves) throughput by
> increasing load.

That, I also understand. But even when I back off the itr values to =
something more reasonable, throughput still remains low.

With all the tweaking I have tried, I have yet to top 3 Gb/s with ixl =
cards, whereas they do ~13 Gb/s on Linux straight out of the box.

Lars

--Apple-Mail=_0220844F-3D93-4781-B1B5-E7999C199CB0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc"
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"
Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iQCVAwUBVieEVdZcnpRveo1xAQh9egQAqxX1TeZj7SMuFuecd2js5ODhooofXz7w
V8yXFQgjeK6MzthBqlr4jK+LA1osZOWcLIzfXxlIXPYb1MhG5Ei8QMGCH2ZW7B9b
Wzu6yavZovncQc/tC89ZfETqTTalqXueCH3vsXlcItvbefuszekBjhBsc+b4LM6I
X0jIObpPXho=
=EdNi
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--Apple-Mail=_0220844F-3D93-4781-B1B5-E7999C199CB0--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?12938D48-44B9-456A-AD7C-630D7E09BB35>