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Date:      Thu, 4 Aug 2016 17:24:17 +0200
From:      Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unstable local network throughput
Message-ID:  <06E414D5-9CDA-46D1-A26F-0B07E76FDB34@gmail.com>
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> On 04 Aug 2016, at 11:40, Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> On 02 Aug 2016, at 22:11, Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 02 Aug 2016, at 21:35, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> =
wrote:
>>>=20
>>> The CX-3 driver doesn't bind the worker threads to specific CPU =
cores by default, so if your CPU has more than one so-called numa, =
you'll end up that the bottle-neck is the high-speed link between the =
CPU cores and not the card. A quick and dirty workaround is to "cpuset" =
iperf and the interrupt and taskqueue threads to specific CPU cores.
>>=20
>> My CPUs : 2x E5-2620v3 with DDR4@1866.
>=20
> OK, so I cpuset all Mellanox interrupts to one NUMA, as well as the =
iPerf processes, and I'm able to reach max bandwidth.
> Choosing the wrong NUMA (or both, or one for interrupts, the other one =
for iPerf, etc...) totally kills throughput.
>=20
> However, full-duplex throughput is still limited, I can't manage to =
reach 2x40Gb/s, throttle is at about 45Gb/s.
> I tried many different cpuset layouts, but I never went above 45Gb/s.
> (Linux allowed me to reach 2x40Gb/s so hardware is not a bottleneck)
>=20
>>> Are you using "options RSS" and "options PCBGROUP" in your kernel =
config?
>=20
> I will then give RSS a try.

Without RSS :
A ---> B : 40Gbps (unidirectional)
A <--> B : 45Gbps (bidirectional)

With RSS :
A ---> B : 28Gbps (unidirectional)
A <--> B : 28Gbps (bidirectional)

Sounds like RSS does not help :/

Why, without RSS, do I have difficulties to reach 2x40Gbps (full-duplex) =
?

Thank U !=



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