On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 01:31:05PM +0200, Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss 
wrote:

> Observing CPU utilization during the test using mpstat, I see that all cores 
> but one are mostly idle, and one core goes to 100% utilization, even when 
> running iperf with a single thread.
> 
> Nick suggested that based on this, I should try increasing rx_queue_number 
> and tx_queue_number for the ixgbe driver. AFAICS, I would need to do that in 
> /kernel/drv/ixgbe.conf, which in turn means I need to do something like

A more likely hypothesis to test would be that the single-threaded
generation of data to be placed on the network is your limiting factor.


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