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Date:      Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:15:26 -0500
From:      Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Cc:        gnn@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Networking under Xen
Message-ID:  <1436890526.3162974.323521249.6B73E6E2@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E7B7075-4E0D-4EA7-9F5D-6D252CFBD487@gmail.com>
References:  <4E7B7075-4E0D-4EA7-9F5D-6D252CFBD487@gmail.com>

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On Tue, Jul 14, 2015, at 07:36, Sydney Meyer wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> i have noticed some odd behaviour with networking under Xen with FreeBSD
> 10 as a DomU.
> 
> - IPv6 (TCP) bandwith drops from ~10 Gbit/s IPv4 to around 3 Gbit/s IPv6.
> (measured with iperf)
> 

What is the "before" and "after" here? When is FreeBSD successfully
doing 10Gbit/s and when isn't it? Is pf enabled? Are you scrubbing?

> - Dropped/Stalled Connections with TCP Segmentation Offload and pf
> enabled.
> 

TSO is a known issue. I've been turning it off for years to get FreeBSD
to play nice on Xen.

> - IPSEC-enabled Kernel TCP Performance drops from ~10 Gbit/s to ~200
> Mbit/s (iperf).
> 

Are you saying FreeBSD non-IPSEC kernel can do 10Gbit/s TCP performance,
but IPSEC kernel immediately drops it to 200Mbit/s?



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