Re: Test on 10GBE Intel based network card

2009-08-14 Thread Jack Vogel
I've talked over the issues with the guy on our team who has been most involved in 10G performance, he asserts that 3Gbs will saturate a single cpu with a small packet size, this is why you need multiqueue across multiple cores. He was dubious about the FIFO assertion, its a relative thing, if you

RE: Test on 10GBE Intel based network card

2009-08-14 Thread Carlos Pardo
Hi Jack, I have a quick question. We are getting too many missed packets per minute running about 3Gbs traffic. We can not use frame control in our application. We are assuming that there is no way to improve upon the problem since it seems to be a hardware limitation with the receive FIFO. We