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? ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
