netdev - Re: low vxlan throughput with tso enabled

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Date:	Tue, 3 Feb 2015 08:26:27 -0800
From:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
To:	Reiner Herrmann <reiner.herrmann@...hos.com>
Cc:	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, svens@...ckframe.org,
	Vittorio Curcio <Vittorio.Curcio@...hos.com>
Subject: Re: low vxlan throughput with tso enabled

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Reiner Herrmann
<reiner.herrmann@...hos.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a vxlan tunnel established between two network interfaces, which
> both have a MTU of 1500. The vxlan interfaces have the same MTU.
> With TSO enabled, I observe low throughput with TCP connections (<100 kB/s).
> Disabling TSO works around this issue and throughput is as expected.
> Can someone please explain how TSO is influencing the tunnel to cause
> such a difference?
>
Please provide more information. What NIC? What is the link rate? What
are you running to test. Also report 'ethtool -k' of both tunnel and
Ethernet interfaces, and tcpdump on the interfaces (to see GSO
packets).

Thanks

> Kind regards,
> Reiner
>
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