On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Andy Gospodarek <a...@greyhouse.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Andy Gospodarek <a...@greyhouse.net> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 08:47:47PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 08:49:25PM -0500, Michael Chan wrote: >>> > The first 8 patches refactor the code (rx/tx code paths and ring logic) >>> > and add the basic infrastructure to support XDP. The 9th patch adds >>> > basic ndo_xdp to support XDP_DROP and XDP_PASS only. The 10th patch >>> > completes the series with XDP_TX. >>> >>> Looks great. >>> Could you please share performance numbers ? >> >> I'll post some later today. > > I finally got my system moved around to what I'd hoped would be the > right spot in my lab, but the system used for generating the traffic > was only able to send 6Mpps with pktgen, so it was not a great test. > > My receiving system with i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz seemed to have no issue > handling this 6Mpps load -- mpstat showed only one core was ~25% > utilitzed with all of that servicing softirqs. The rest of the cores > were 100% idle. > > I'm going to search for other traffic generation tools/systems to make > sure I can get at least line-rate for the 10GbE cards I was using.
hmm. last time I tried pktgen on bnx2x it was easily doing 14Mpps with burst on. Have you been using samples/pktgen/pktgen_sample03_burst_single_flow.sh ? Waiting for this set to land to start benchmarking on bnxt. So having a baseline will certainly help :) Thanks!
