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Date:      Mon, 17 Aug 2015 13:35:06 +0300
From:      Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Cc:        FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance
Message-ID:  <197995E2-0C11-43A2-AB30-FBB0FB8CE2C5@cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <20150817094145.GB3158@zxy.spb.ru>
References:  <1D52028A-B39F-4F9B-BD38-CB1D73BF5D56@cs.huji.ac.il> <20150817094145.GB3158@zxy.spb.ru>

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> On Aug 17, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> =
wrote:
>=20
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:27:41AM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>=20
>> hi,
>> 	I have a host (Dell R730) with both cards, connected to an =
HP8200 switch at 10Gb.
>> 	when writing to the same storage (netapp) this is what I get:
>> 		ix0:		~130MGB/s
>> 		mlxen0	~330MGB/s
>> 	this is via nfs/tcpv3
>>=20
>> 	I can get similar (bad) performance with the mellanox if I =
increase the file size
>> 	to 512MGB.
>=20
> Look like mellanox have internal beffer for caching and do ACK =
acclerating.
what ever they are doing, it=E2=80=99s impressive :-)

>=20
>> 	so at face value, it seems the mlxen does a better use of =
resources than the intel.
>> 	Any ideas how to improve ix/intel's performance?
>=20
> Are you sure about netapp performance?

yes, and why should it act differently if the request is coming from the =
same host? in any case
the numbers are quiet consistent since I have measured it from several =
hosts, and at different times.

danny




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