netdev - RE: Low performance Intel 10GE NIC (3.2.10) on 2.6.38 Kernel

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Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:09:01 +0800
From:	Wei Gu <wei.gu@...csson.com>
To:	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...il.com>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: RE: Low performance Intel 10GE NIC (3.2.10) on 2.6.38 Kernel

Hi,
This is the result that I running the turbostat via 2.6.35.3 and perform the same load test on eth10 (8 tx/rx queue binding to core 24-31) according you instruction.
I was add the processor.max_cstate=1 in the boot params, and also disabled the cstate in the BIOS. But looks like the kernel does take them.

Thanks
WeiGu

-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Brandeburg [mailto:jesse.brandeburg@...il.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:12 AM
To: Wei Gu
Cc: Peter Zijlstra; Eric Dumazet; Alexander Duyck; netdev; Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Mike Galbraith; Thomas Gleixner
Subject: Re: Low performance Intel 10GE NIC (3.2.10) on 2.6.38 Kernel

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Wei Gu <wei.gu@...csson.com> wrote:
> Is there something that I can provide in order to identify the problem?

for power state concerns you may want to try running turbostat (available in recent kernels, runs also on older kernels) during the workload in question.  Capture the results via something like:
cd /home/jbrandeb/linux-2.6.38.2/tools/power/x86/turbostat
make
for i in `seq 1 10` ; do ./turbostat -v sleep 5 >> turbostat.txt 2>&1 ; done

Jesse

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