On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Dale Ghent <[email protected]> wrote:

> One thing I'd like to see people who have ixgbe hardware (X550 and
> anything else) is RSS. A good smoke test is to open up a high-traffic TCP
> stream between the ixgbe box and another, with the ixgbe box being the
> receiver. A tool for this is iperf.
>
> In another window, watch interrupt count for ixgbe using 'intrstat 1' -
> you should see a ton of interrupts from ixgbe landing on one particular CPU.
>
> Then, open up a second (or third, or fourth) such stream and you should
> see the interrupts for those land on a different CPU, as show with intrstat.
>
> Since receive-side scaling was one of the major areas I had to re-work to
> accommodate X550, this basic test would be a quick (albeit not exactly
> scientific) way of making sure it's working as intended.


It does seem to be spreading, though not evenly or to all CPUs (4 of 8) but
that may be because I am only able to put 250 Mbit/s at it or because I am
in a zone.



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