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Message-ID: <520583AB.9030509@candelatech.com>
Date:	Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:04:59 -0700
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SCTP performance?

On 08/09/2013 04:21 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 16:11 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> I just added some support for SCTP to my traffic-generator tool.
>>
>> I tried to send 1Gbps of traffic, bi-directional, across two
>> 10G interfaces.  TCP does this without any trouble at all,
>> but SCTP was asymetric and never got above around 700Mbps,
>> and was usually stuck at < 500Mbps.
>>
>> perf top didn't show any obvious CPU bottlenecks.
>>
>> Has anyone done any recent performance testing with SCTP?
>>
>> I'd be interested to know the results if so...
>
> You mean there is no SCTP offload on the NIC and/or GRO, yes that's too
> bad.
>

I'm sure that is part of the problem.

I got much better results when I explicitly set the
tx/rx socket buffer sizes to 2MB, so maybe it just sucks
at auto-tuning it's socket buffer sizes.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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