Re: [casper] 10GbE throughput

2014-03-14 Thread Jack Hickish
On 14 March 2014 10:02, Jason Manley wrote: > I'm not sure... I didn't investigate much further once I figured out it'd > work fine for our application. Can't argue with that :) Sounds like some benchmarking is in order... > > Jason > > > On 14 Mar 2014, at 11:55, Jack Hickish wrote: > >> Tha

Re: [casper] 10GbE throughput

2014-03-14 Thread Jason Manley
I'm not sure... I didn't investigate much further once I figured out it'd work fine for our application. This was sending data through a switch, so it could even have been due to the switch fabric. I didn't try a direct cable connection. But it might be there's overhead in our 10GbE core's CPU/f

Re: [casper] 10GbE throughput

2014-03-14 Thread Jack Hickish
Thanks Jason. That info is really helpful. It sounds like if I boost my packets to ~1% header overhead, I shouldn't reckon on being able to throw away less than 5% of the bandwidth. Out of interest, do you know what limit you're hitting at 96% data rate (I interpreted raw data rate to mean payloa

Re: [casper] 10GbE throughput

2014-03-13 Thread Jason Manley
You can push them pretty hard. We're reliably running at an average of around 90% wire speed on all four links for MeerKAT. But be sure to factor-in the overheads of the core... In our case: L1 Ethernet HDR & FTR44B IPv4 header 20B UDP header8B Application heade

[casper] 10GbE throughput

2014-03-13 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi all, I have an application that generates 40 Gb/s of data and I'd like to output it over 4 x 10GbE links (i.e. one roach2 mezzanine card). I'm going to have to throw some data away to make room for packetising overhead, and right now I'm trying to work out how much, to see whether I should jus