Bruce Allen wrote:
(Pádraig Brady has suggested that I post this to Netdev. It was
originally posted to LKML here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/30/141 )
Dear NetDev,
We've connected a pair of modern high-performance boxes with integrated
copper Gb/s Intel NICS, with an ethernet crossover cable, and have run
some netperf full duplex TCP tests. The transfer rates are well below
wire speed. We're reporting this as a kernel bug, because we expect a
vanilla kernel with default settings to give wire speed (or close to
wire speed) performance in this case. We DO see wire speed in simplex
transfers. The behavior has been verified on multiple machines with
identical hardware.
Try using NICs in the pci-e slots. We have better
luck there, as you usually have more lanes and/or higher
quality NIC chipsets available in this case.
Try a UDP test to make sure the NIC can actually handle the throughput.
Look at the actual link usage as reported by the ethernet driver so that you
take all of the ACKS and other overhead into account.
Try the same test using 10G hardware (CX4 NICs are quite affordable
these days, and we drove a 2-port 10G NIC based on the Intel ixgbe
chipset at around 4Gbps on two ports, full duplex, using pktgen).
As in around 16Gbps throughput across the busses. That may also give you an
idea
if the bottleneck is hardware or software related.
Ben
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Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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