recently, I have debug DPDK18.08 at my arm64 arch machine, with
DPDK-pktgen3.5.2.
but the performace is very low for bidirectional traffic with x86 machine
here is my data:
hardware Conditions:
arm64: CPU - 64 cores, CPUfreq: 1.5GHz
MEM - 64 GiB
NIC - 82599ES dual port
x86: CPU - 4 cores, CPUfreq: 3.2GHz
MEM - 4GiB
NIC - 82599ES dual port
software Conditions:
system kernel:
arm64: linux-4.4.58
x86: ubuntu16.04-4.4.0-generic
tools:
DPDK18.08, DPDK-pktgen3.5.2
test:
|----------| bi-directional |-----------|
| arm64 | port0 | < - > | port0 | x86 |
|----------|
|----------|
result
arm64 x86
Pkts/s (Rx/Tx) 10.2/6.0Mpps 6.0/14.80Mpps
MBits/s(Rx/Tx) 7000/3300 MBits/s 3300/9989 MBits/s
Questions:
1、Why DPDK data performance would be so much worse than the x86 architecture in
arm64 addition?
2、above, Tx direction is not run full, Why Rx and TX affect each other?