Breno Leitao wrote:
> Jesse,
> 
> Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
>> Also, what kind of system, and how fast is your memory?
>> 
>> netperf test to localhost is a decent indication of memory
>> bandwidth. netserver netperf -T0,0 -C -c
>> netperf -T0,1 -C -c
>> netperf -T0,2 -C -c
> What are the minimum/expected output value to run a 10Gb dual port
> (full duplex) in wire speed ?

I'm actually not sure how to relate netperf localhost throughput to 10GbE 
throughput.

I ran it on one of my machines that I know can send at 9.4Gb/s (don't know 
about bidirectional) and got

it’s a quad core client machine (ICH9)
r...@jbrandeb-ich9b linux-2.6]# netperf -T0,0 -C -c
TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to localhost (127.0.0.1) 
port 0 AF_INET : cpu bind
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

 87380  16384  16384    10.00      6188.48   25.33    25.33    1.341   1.341

[r...@jbrandeb-ich9b linux-2.6]# netperf -T0,1 -C -c -P0
 87380  16384  16384    10.00      5319.13   42.14    42.14    2.596   2.596

[r...@jbrandeb-ich9b linux-2.6]# netperf -T0,2 -C -c -P0
 87380  16384  16384    10.00      10333.59   42.78    42.78    1.357   1.357

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