netdev - Re: One way TCP bottleneck over 6 x Gbit tecl aggregated link

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Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:15:11 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Wolfgang Rosner <wrosner@...net.de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: One way TCP bottleneck over 6 x Gbit tecl aggregated link

On Sat, 2015-03-21 at 01:10 +0100, Wolfgang Rosner wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> Im trying to configure a beowulf style cluster based on venerable HP blade 
> server hardware.
> I configured 6 parallel GBit vlans between 16 blade nodes and a gateway server 
> with teql link aggregation.
> 
> After lots of tuning, nearly everything runs fine (i.e. > 5,5 GBit/s iperf 
> transfer rate, which is 95 % of theoretical limit), but one bottleneck 
> remains left:
> 
> From gateway to blade nodes, I get only half of full rate if I use only a 
> single iperf process / single TCP link. 
> With 2 or more iperf in parallel, transfer rate is OK.
> 
> I don't see this bottleneck in the other direction, nor in the links between 
> the blade nodes: 
> there I have always > 5,5 GBit, even for a single process.
> 
> Is there just a some simple tuning paramter I overlooked, or do I have to dig 
> for a deeper cause?

What linux version runs on sender ?

Could you send output of :

nstat >/dev/null
iperf -c 192.168.130.225
nstat

Also, please send ss output while iperf is running as in :

(please use a recent ss command, found in iproute2 package :
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git/  
so that it outputs the reordering level)

iperf -c 192.168.130.225 &
ss -temoi dst 192.168.130.225



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