Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:29:46 -0400 From: Adam Stylinski <kungfujesus06@gmail.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: em0 performance subpar Message-ID: <20110428072946.GA11391@zephyr.adamsnet>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello, I have an intel gigabit network adapter (the 1000 GT w/chipset 82541PI) which performs poorly in Freebsd compared to the same card in Linux. I've tried this card in two different freebsd boxes and for whatever reason I get poor transmit performance. I've done all of the tweaking specified in just about every guide out there (the usual TCP window scaling, larger nmbclusters, delayed acks, etc) and still I get only around 600mbps. I'm using jumbo frames, with an MTU of 9000. I'm testing this with iperf. While I realize that this may not be the most realistic test, linux hosts with the same card can achieve 995Mbit/s to another host running this. When the Freebsd box is the server, Linux hosts can transmit to it at around 800 something Mbit/s. I've increased the transmit descriptors as specified in the if_em man page, and while that gave me 20 or 30 more mbit/s, my transmit performance is still below normal. sysctl stats report that the card is trigger a lot of tx_desc_fail2: dev.em.0.tx_desc_fail2: 3431 Looking at a comment in the source code this indicates that the card was not able to obtain enough transmit descriptors (but I've given the card the maximum of 4096 in my loader.conf tunable). Is this a bug or a performance regression of some kind? Does anybody have a fix for this? I tried another card with the same chip in a different box on 8-STABLE to no avail (the box I'm trying to improve performance on is on 8.2-RELEASE-p1). Anybody manage to make this card push above 600mbps in ideal network benchmarks? Any help would be gladly appreciated. -- Adam Stylinski PGP Key: http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu/~adam/publickey.pub Blog: http://technicallyliving.blogspot.com [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJNuRdpAAoJED6sRHE6TvmnhSwP/RncWw07PGrukndXs+/VVDLa SBPC8V1GUUW3zoisNEKORYQQ4qYM97Ql94zNB11tFR9MxjcmqJjZv2GqmVSiMGHR 5px/UOuoQjiGYxcFfqVyaN6EhaZaSGLmiYlVfNdSAFYwZ1jNcl1AsmD+zKgl6BRw UfmVui8UlmmakggQJ2qir2yr+6cmi6VV6MCaJNelHnVJ7ggHB85Qha1UdaoFqb2e UzDsAMnU6RDeEhQxvRvlv+ch0cAciTnVm/ipmR+5PQEJ4Wht4rhjTEodK/IZ8O/Z fEYapcS11HTZal6T4FMjImB3bf0YpT2tV//H5SycGDsGUNgNysbOBnuP/rway7x0 Qhp5XR1gKW7YNCzREe9dK7QtmUIcjHIFw9/qSWt4tRaEerpDR8sH9JUq71Hvc2QC pws9SHFBzYjV4zKZg597TJuuSY0gWPKpRZmPmY3mZ0aR0LnbVQgO29ay0lgCuyxF owhdUUb5JKmn9H7vcOacTQYYP//GyWMMYnVMmDCecz5jOWAQuN5xx4htQKhDu1I5 bV3qG1+j2F6iIEP+7DKWogIEF3QcbF3vecboeehc5MouoIpEyLm6jyA3GQnW/gE4 RNuqKVuoMFgqK06QdBNNgysNkfj3oY4WrkDPoNAJFvE2PYeIZxFzr7Cve5Cm+Bgt 8lL3b3dFM7OkIzx5CUAh =hke5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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