Hi Roman, I have recently published the following paper using click and 10GE transceivers. http://www.cttc.es/resources/doc/110728-hpsr-mplstp-final-46195.pdf
I hope an extended version will be published soon in a journal. Best Regards, Ricard On 01/18/2012 02:29 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:13 AM, rchertov<[email protected]> wrote: >> I finally got my hands on some 10GE equipment and started to play >> around with Click. So I noticed the following. On 2.6.24.7 patched >> kernel using 3.7.17 ixgbe driver, I get around 200K pps when running a >> node as a bridge (click pulled from git today). However, when on >> exactly the same node I run the exactly same test but I use >> click-1.7.0rc1, then I can easily achieve 300K pps. I have also tried >> 2.6.35.14-106.fc14.i686 using the latest Click and I still got around >> 200K pps. >> >> >> I am curious of people's experiences when running Click on 10GE >> equipment. Has anybody got the RouteBricks MQ code running? Everything >> compiled for me, but I get pretty strange packet forwarding performance, >> where the data is either delayed by quite a bit or it is just corrupted. >> >> My fancy one way bridge config >> >> fd :: FromDevice(eth2, PROMISC true, BURST 32) >> -> ctr1 :: AverageCounter >> -> q :: Queue(4096) >> -> ctr2 :: AverageCounter >> -> ToDevice(eth3, BURST 64); > remember that fetching timestamps, even staying in-kernel, > is extremely expensive (in the order of 250-500ns) so if you use > one of those elements in your pipeline you won't be able > to get decent performance. > > try to remove one or both counters and see if that improves > the throughput (this said, 200 or 300kpps really seems too > low to be explained by timestamps) > > cheers > luigi > > > -- ______________________________________________________________ Ricard Vilalta Research Engineer Optical Networking Area (ONA) http://wikiona.cttc.es/ CTTC - Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia (PMT) Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss 7, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain http://www.cttc.es/ Phone: +34 93 396 71 70 (ext. 2232). Fax: +34 93 645 29 01 E-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ click mailing list [email protected] https://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/click
