Re: em performs worse than igb (latency wise) in 12?

2019-04-09 Thread Nick Rogers
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 10:24 PM Graham Menhennitt wrote: > Not that it's at all relevant to the question here, but... > > It does mostly work without em in the 12 kernel - I'm not sure how, but > it does. > > I upgraded to 12-stable via source but didn't add em to my custom > kernel. Most things

Re: em performs worse than igb (latency wise) in 12?

2019-04-09 Thread Kris von Mach
On 4/7/2019 6:49 AM, Matthew Macy wrote: On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 1:23 PM Michael Butler wrote: I'd be interested to see if substituting the port net/intel-em-kmod has any effect on the issue, I would as well. igb, em, and lem are all the same driver in 12. This makes maintenance a lot easier.

Re: em performs worse than igb (latency wise) in 12?

2019-04-06 Thread Graham Menhennitt
Not that it's at all relevant to the question here, but... It does mostly work without em in the 12 kernel - I'm not sure how, but it does. I upgraded to 12-stable via source but didn't add em to my custom kernel. Most things worked - basic network functionality. But I had problems with

Re: em performs worse than igb (latency wise) in 12?

2019-04-06 Thread Matthew Macy
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 1:23 PM Michael Butler wrote: > > On 2019-04-06 08:58, Kris von Mach wrote: > > On 4/6/2019 2:56 AM, Pete French wrote: > >> Something odd going on there there - I am using 12-STABLE and I have > >> igb just fine, and it attaches to the same hardware that 11 did: > > > > I

Re: em performs worse than igb (latency wise) in 12?

2019-04-06 Thread Michael Butler
On 2019-04-06 08:58, Kris von Mach wrote: > On 4/6/2019 2:56 AM, Pete French wrote: >> Something odd going on there there - I am using 12-STABLE and I have >> igb just fine, and it attaches to the same hardware that 11 did: > > I ran apache bench, and I got a result of 100 requests/sec on

Re: em performs worse than igb (latency wise) in 12?

2019-04-06 Thread Kris von Mach
On 4/6/2019 2:56 AM, Pete French wrote: Something odd going on there there - I am using 12-STABLE and I have igb just fine, and it attaches to the same hardware that 11 did: I ran apache bench, and I got a result of 100 requests/sec on 12-STABLE vs 16,000 requests/sec on 11-STABLE. So

Re: em performs worse than igb (latency wise) in 12?

2019-04-05 Thread Kris von Mach
On 4/6/2019 2:56 AM, Pete French wrote: Something odd going on there there - I am using 12-STABLE and I have igb just fine, and it attaches to the same hardware that 11 did: It does work in 12, throughput is great, just that the latency is higher than 11. igb0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500

Re: em performs worse than igb (latency wise) in 12?

2019-04-05 Thread Pete French
On 05/04/2019 16:01, Kris von Mach wrote: I've upgraded from Stable 11 to Stable 12, and noticed that igb has been removed and is now part of em driver. However, the performance seems a lot worse. This is using HP 366FLR which is just HP's version of Intel i350 I believe. Something odd

em performs worse than igb (latency wise) in 12?

2019-04-05 Thread Kris von Mach
Hello, I've upgraded from Stable 11 to Stable 12, and noticed that igb has been removed and is now part of em driver. However, the performance seems a lot worse. This is using HP 366FLR which is just HP's version of Intel i350 I believe. I've tried incorporating the sysctl settings I used