netdev - Re: e1000 performance issue in 4 simultaneous links

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:51:36 +0000
From:	Jeba Anandhan <jeba.anandhan@...oni.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Breno Leitao <leitao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e1000 performance issue in 4 simultaneous links

Ben,
I am facing the performance issue when we try to bond the multiple
interfaces with virtual interface. It could be related to this thread. 
My questions are,
*) When we use mulitple NICs, will the performance of overall system  be
summation of all individual lines  XX bits/sec. ?
*) What are the factors improves the performance if we have multiple
interfaces?. [ kind of tuning the parameters in proc ]

Breno, 
I hope this thread will be helpful for performance issue which i have
with bonding driver.

Jeba
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 16:36 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Breno Leitao wrote:
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > I've perceived that there is a performance issue when running netperf
> > against 4 e1000 links connected end-to-end to another machine with 4
> > e1000 interfaces. 
> > 
> > I have 2 4-port interfaces on my machine, but the test is just
> > considering 2 port for each interfaces card.
> > 
> > When I run netperf in just one interface, I get 940.95 * 10^6 bits/sec
> > of transfer rate. If I run 4 netperf against 4 different interfaces, I
> > get around 720 * 10^6 bits/sec.
> <snip>
> 
> I take it that's the average for individual interfaces, not the
> aggregate?  RX processing for multi-gigabits per second can be quite
> expensive.  This can be mitigated by interrupt moderation and NAPI
> polling, jumbo frames (MTU >1500) and/or Large Receive Offload (LRO).
> I don't think e1000 hardware does LRO, but the driver could presumably
> be changed use Linux's software LRO.
> 
> Even with these optimisations, if all RX processing is done on a
> single CPU this can become a bottleneck.  Does the test system have
> multiple CPUs?  Are IRQs for the multiple NICs balanced across
> multiple CPUs?
> 
> Ben.
> 
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