Weird. It looks almost like either the workloads were different, or
SAN2 has a dedicated worker thread for polling while sanlab "only"
deals with that inside ixgbe_intr_rx_work.

Are the /kernel/drv/ixgbe.conf the same on both?

- Rich

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Kris Shannon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28 June 2014 13:06, Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Your dropbox links 404 for me, at least.
>
> I've tried attaching them.
>
> The "sanlab" is the the one which is limited to 500 Mbit/s.
>
> "san2" is the one which is getting over 5 Gbit/s.
>
>> SW rings being faster makes some sense to me, since it's (sometimes)
>> the case that HW offload isn't necessarily faster, but it is avoiding
>> putting load on the CPU...
>
> OK,  that does make sense considering that top is showing over 90%
> idle even when using SW rings.
>
> So what settings should I try and poke to get sanlab faster?


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