Hi,

The Rx throughput of 82599 NIC on PCIe Gen1 limits to 6.5 and 7.5Gbps 
with mtu 1500 and 9000 respectively.
On PCIe Gen2 the throughput seems to be ok (reaches line rate). However, 
I should mention that, I dont have a PCIe Gen2 slot on the same machine 
but on a different machine with PCIe Gen2 the throughput is good (line 
rate).
Is this a known issue?

Here are the test setup details,

Host:
Name:dd880-3
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X7350 @ 2.93GHz, 16 Cores Multithread enabled.
Memory: 48GB
NIC: 82599 based ninatic card.
!!!! dd880-3 YOUR DATA IS IN DANGER !!!! # lspci | grep 82599
15:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10 Gigabit 
Network Connection (rev 01)
15:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10 Gigabit 
Network Connection (rev 01)
16:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10 Gigabit 
Network Connection (rev 01)
16:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10 Gigabit 
Network Connection (rev 01)

Driver:
!!!! dd880-3 YOUR DATA IS IN DANGER !!!! # ethtool -i eth2
driver: ixgbe
version: 2.0.38.2-NAPI
firmware-version: 0.9-3
bus-info: 0000:15:00.0

PCIe: Gen 1, x8
Linux : 2.6.23.17

Client:
Name: dd690-108
Mem: 16GB
CPU:Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz, 8cores, multithread enabled.
NIC: non-intel
!!!! dd690-108 YOUR DATA IS IN DANGER !!!! # lspci | grep T310
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Chelsio Communications Inc T310 10GbE 
Single Port Adapter
Driver:
!!!! dd690-108 YOUR DATA IS IN DANGER !!!! # ethtool -i eth2
driver: cxgb3
version: 1.2
firmware-version: T 7.1.0 TP 1.1.0
bus-info: 0000:08:00.0

PCIe: Gen1, x8
Linux: 2.6.23.17

I ran perf to get the throughput,
iper -s at  host (dd880-3)
iperf -c at client (dd690-108)
TCP window size is 256K at both server and clients.

The throughput is as below,

streams                         Throughput(Gbps)          mtu
1                                    6.88                              1500
2                                    6.84                              1500
4                                    6.79                              1500
8                                    6.69                              1500
16                                  1.56                              
1500 (cpu6 maxouts at 100%softirq)
1                                    7.56                              9000
2                                    7.55                              9000
4                                    7.50                              9000
8                                    7.45                              9000
16                                  7.41                              9000

Does anybody see something similar, am I missing any configuration set 
up over here..

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Lakshmana

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