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Date:      Fri, 11 Dec 2015 07:20:47 +0000
From:      "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com>
To:        Denis Pearson <dennix.pearson@gmail.com>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>, "Pieper, Jeffrey E" <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, "Daniel Engberg" <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net>, "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ixl 40G bad performance?
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Hi,

On 2015-12-10, at 20:42, Denis Pearson <dennix.pearson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can probably find out a snapshot with the code at the time and =
extract a diff, yes. I just don't know how it worths wasting the time =
when the problem is not reproducible on the current 1.4.8 driver which =
will hopefully get into -CURRENT (if it's not already there?).

per my last email, I do see the same issues with 1.4.8.

This is with a single netperf TCP flow, no NIC parameter tuning and no =
RSS or PCBGROUP in the kernel.

> This is why I suggested a transceiver change or replug first.

I will test this next week. (However, the same testbed booted into Linux =
doesn't see these low netperf numbers.)

It really smells like a TSO/LRO (=3D packet rate) issue. If I configure =
jumbograms, performance jumps up as expected.

Lars

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