Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:23:58 -0700 From: Clint <clint@servedomains.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: igb performance/load udp issue Message-ID: <9fec6cc5fb8e42665b6056587f826338@servedomains.com> In-Reply-To: <20111221153456.GA30629@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <2f23773b5165887ac51d19a612bf4c93@servedomains.com> <20111220224814.GA7715@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <5b246a7cf0bceedf39ff5718336b0753@servedomains.com> <CAFOYbcn%2BraVVFThgnZKX6NgEmKPktzeysW60N%2BKOUWNiXO%2B6-g@mail.gmail.com> <91610121f172c87d5095c8ac03ea9837@servedomains.com> <20111221153456.GA30629@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:34:56 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 08:04:54AM -0700, Clint wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:46:46 -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: >> >I was fighting with UDP issues before the latest checkin, so you >> >should >> >look at THAT version, 2.3.1 in HEAD please. >> > >> >Jack >> > >> >> I'm actually running the HEAD version now, but my problems still >> persist. I did notice that the excessive load is now spread across >> multiple cores where before it was isolated to one core at a time. >> This >> version also doesn't suffer from the horrible performance I >> experienced >> with v2.2.5. > > as someone mentioned, it may have to do with the sender > using multiple queues thus causing reordering in the frames, > which then the receiver has to sort (and often, the receive > queue is a list so O(N) complexity per packet.) > > Can you run the igb driver with just a single queue ? > In the bootloader, or before loading the module using "kenv", you > should set > > hw.igb.num_queues = 1 > > This should prevent gratuitous reordering and perhaps fix > your performance. > > cheers > luigi I've already tried that as well, but with the v2.0.3 driver, didn't help. I'll try it again with the HEAD driver tonight. Thanks, Clinthome | help
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