iperf performance for TCP is line rate in both directions using 3 threads

However, I can just get 700MB/s Write and 570MB/s Reads with iSCSI.

Thanks for any pointers!

On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 1:11:59 PM UTC-7, learner.study wrote:
>
> Another related observation and some questions; 
>
> I am using open iscsi on init with IET on trgt over a single 10gbps link 
>
> There are three ip aliases on each side 
>
> I have 3 ramdisks exported by IET to init 
>
> I do  iscsi login 3 times, once using each underlying ip address and 
> notice that each iscsi session sees all 3 disks. 
>
>  Is it possible to restrict such that each init only sees one separate 
> disk? 
>
> When I run fio on each mounted disk, I see that only two underlying tcp 
> sessions are being used - that limits the perf. 
> Any ideas on how to overcome this? 
>
> Thanks! 
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone 
>
> On Aug 26, 2014, at 12:53 PM, "Mark Lehrer" <m...@knm.org> wrote: 
>
> > On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 08:58:46 -0400 Alvin Starr <al...@iplink.net> wrote: 
> >> 
> >>>> I am trying to achieve10Gbps in my single initiator/single target 
> >>>> env. (open-iscsi and IET) 
> >>> 
> >>> On a semi-related note, are there any good guides out there to 
> >>> tuning Linux for maximum single-socket performance?  On my 40 gigabit 
> >> 
> >> You are likely getting hit by the bandwidth-delay product. 
> >> Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth-delay_product 
> >> and http://www.kehlet.cx/articles/99.html 
> > 
> > Thanks that helped get my netcat transfer up over 500MB/sec using IPoIB. 
> Unfortunately that is still only about 10% of the available bandwidth. 
> > 
> > I'll keep on tweaking and see how far I can take it. 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > Mark 
> > 
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On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 1:11:59 PM UTC-7, learner.study wrote:
>
> Another related observation and some questions; 
>
> I am using open iscsi on init with IET on trgt over a single 10gbps link 
>
> There are three ip aliases on each side 
>
> I have 3 ramdisks exported by IET to init 
>
> I do  iscsi login 3 times, once using each underlying ip address and 
> notice that each iscsi session sees all 3 disks. 
>
>  Is it possible to restrict such that each init only sees one separate 
> disk? 
>
> When I run fio on each mounted disk, I see that only two underlying tcp 
> sessions are being used - that limits the perf. 
> Any ideas on how to overcome this? 
>
> Thanks! 
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone 
>
> On Aug 26, 2014, at 12:53 PM, "Mark Lehrer" <m...@knm.org> wrote: 
>
> > On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 08:58:46 -0400 Alvin Starr <al...@iplink.net> wrote: 
> >> 
> >>>> I am trying to achieve10Gbps in my single initiator/single target 
> >>>> env. (open-iscsi and IET) 
> >>> 
> >>> On a semi-related note, are there any good guides out there to 
> >>> tuning Linux for maximum single-socket performance?  On my 40 gigabit 
> >> 
> >> You are likely getting hit by the bandwidth-delay product. 
> >> Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth-delay_product 
> >> and http://www.kehlet.cx/articles/99.html 
> > 
> > Thanks that helped get my netcat transfer up over 500MB/sec using IPoIB. 
> Unfortunately that is still only about 10% of the available bandwidth. 
> > 
> > I'll keep on tweaking and see how far I can take it. 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > Mark 
> > 
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