netdev - Re: intel 82599 multi-port performance

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Message-ID: <4E80C161.1040204@hp.com>
Date:	Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:16:01 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	frog1120@...il.com
CC:	"J.Hwan.Kim" <j.hwan.kim99@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: intel 82599 multi-port performance

On 09/26/2011 08:42 AM, J.Hwan.Kim wrote:
> On 2011년 09월 26일 23:20, Chris Friesen wrote:
>> On 09/26/2011 04:26 AM, J.Hwan Kim wrote:
>>> Hi, everyone
>>>
>>> Now, I'm testing a network card including intel 82599.
>>> In our experiment, with the driver modified with ixgbe and multi-port
>>> enabled,
>>
>> What do you mean by "modified with ixgbe and multi-port enabled"? You
>> shouldn't need to do anything special to use both ports.
>>
>>> rx performance of each port with 10Gbps of 64bytes frame is
>>> a half than when only 1 port is used.
>>
>> Sounds like a cpu limitation. What is your cpu usage? How are your
>> interrupts routed? Are you using multiple rx queues?
>>
>
> Our server is XEON 2.4GHz with 8 cores.
> I'm using 4 RSS queues for each port and distributed it's interrupts to
> different cores respectively.
> I checked the CPU utilization with TOP, I guess ,it is not cpu imitation
> problem.

99 times out of 10, by default top will show the average CPU utilization 
across all the "CPUs" of the system. So I will ask the pedantic question 
- Did you check per-CPU utilization or just overall?

rick jones
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