Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:34:21 +0000 From: Vlad Galu <dudu@dudu.ro> To: Marcin Markowski <mmarkowski@leon.pl> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance problem using Intel X520-DA2 Message-ID: <52C581907BBB4B4AAF55D14F46BAAF2F@dudu.ro> In-Reply-To: <a231a44c6c803075c7b456a6189ff6ce@leon.pl> References: <a231a44c6c803075c7b456a6189ff6ce@leon.pl>
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On Monday, January 23, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Marcin Markowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We use FreeBSD as sniffer (libpcap programs) and we experience
> performance problems when incoming traffic is greater than 7.5Gbps/s.
> If we check 'top' we see that first irq from network card is using
> 100% CPU. I've tested this on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE and 9.0-RELEASE
> (on 9.0 we can see also kernel thread named {ix0 que} using 100% CPU),
> and both systems behave the same. In logs we see also:
> interrupt storm detected on "irq268:"; throttling interrupt source
>
> Our server platform is Intel SR2600URBRP, 2x Xeon X5650, 6GB RAM and
> NIC Intel X520-DA2.
>
> I'm not sure if problem is with NIC or motherboard in SR2600URBRP,
> because everything is fine when we use other server configuration:
> Intel SR1630GP, 1x Xeon X3450, 8GB RAM, NIC X520-DA2
>
> My /boot/loader.conf:
> kern.ipc.nmbclusters=262144
> hw.ixgbe.rxd=2048
> hw.ixgbe.txd=2048
> hw.ixgbe.num_queues=16
>
> /etc/sysctl.conf
> hw.intr_storm_threshold=10000
>
Hi Marcin,
Have a look at Luigi's excellent netmap framework [1].
[1] http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
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