Re: Slow networkperformance in current?

From: Jack Vogel <jfvogel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:10:04 -0700
On 7/20/07, Jack Vogel <jfvogel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/20/07, Alexandre Biancalana <biancalana_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/20/07, Jack Vogel <jfvogel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am actually quite impressed with the stack right now, with our new
> > > Oplin hardware and the ixgbe driver I have 9.8 Gb/s pumping thru
> > > it. Of course its all about adequate hardware, configuration, and
> > > tuning.
> >
> >
> > Can you post the configuration tuning done ?
> >
> >
>
> Get rid of INVARIANT and WITNESS of course.
> Use ULE scheduler
> Use MTU of 9000
> Set interrupt storm threshold up to 8000 (default is 1000), if we didnt
> do this the channel would get throttled.
>
> Then we need to make sure MSI/X is enabled, and set the number
> of RX queues to 8 (this is Oplin specific).
>
> The ixgbe driver uses 4K jumbo clusters as long as you set MTU
> up. I have experimented with Kip's patch for 9K and it helps a bit
> but mainly it improves cpu utilization.
>
> Beyond this doing 10G is very sensitive to things like cpu's, frontside bus,
> memory, etc, but these are things that I didn't personally set up, I just
> tell them to give me a kick ass machine :)

OH, one other item I forgot, use TSO, I think thats significant help.
Received on Fri Jul 20 2007 - 21:10:05 UTC

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