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Date:      Mon, 5 Dec 2011 15:08:54 -0800
From:      Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg>
Subject:   Re: datapoints on 10G throughput with TCP ?
Message-ID:  <CAFOYbcmxaC_5QDmxo%2BtqXpiuyZghX_EMGssnMxJ8AiuONVNUWQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111205222834.GA50285@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <20111205192703.GA49118@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <2D87D847-A2B7-4E77-B6C1-61D73C9F582F@digsys.bg> <20111205222834.GA50285@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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You can't get line rate with ixgbe, in what configuration/hardware?
We surely do get line rate in validation here, but its sensitive to
your hardware and config.

Jack


On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Daniel Kalchev wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 5, 2011, at 9:27 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> >
> > > - have two machines connected by a 10G link
> > > - on one run "nuttcp -S"
> > > - on the other one run "nuttcp -t -T 5 -w 128 -v the.other.ip"
> > >
> >
> > Any particular tuning of FreeBSD?
>
> actually my point is first to see how good or bad are the defaults.
>
> I have noticed that setting hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate=0
> (it is a tunable, you need to do it before loading the module)
> improves the throughput by a fair amount (but still way below
> line rate with 1500 byte packets).
>
> other things (larger windows) don't seem to help much.
>
> cheers
> luigi
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