From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f42.google.com (mail-pa0-f42.google.com [209.85.220.42]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E66A6C97 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 20:05:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-pa0-f42.google.com with SMTP id ti13so18241893pac.0 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:05:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hb6FzOsMkd5jaJgNoBklaIqKuQcU8TJbeg1GhKGoi40=; b=TJYk/aKeommkZcqTEXOYQc/pddiSxUWF1CWsQQLpOU+c737NYQme3pGcSEiJ5udtYY BQ0mtPIJmIirh+3MKaT5G1q6nB72zWEqz+dW1M+uFIta8Nc68BizXF51tYrvAIwnj6Ba 5nZdK7PxOXUEQ7GSRDH+ncztz1mUQpRgCsYNTiMpngFL36ZZuj1njcIXwjl9InX4Fg/s UAiuEacHE7hmq0mzGmshzUUVvGR80ddpqDWot4hIk+UvzQ+1hSoTbTtZRkN7PhMJnvVH I9r4Mwl4QL9meDuqL6MQVqf6J3i6VdwVLBLU4gu9DiUluuGF7CkcooVwe6WfH5TxcZJ5 cBaA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hb6FzOsMkd5jaJgNoBklaIqKuQcU8TJbeg1GhKGoi40=; b=mmpYagMkImft8TBnVcFWlipmD3Mmr6ACe0GM1j/fAeTtn+NR4FC5EdoOLeyT6tVlTW hSWSGzQspBwgG6Bq9W5LjGhdgEWreLyMPqFRK47PMq/zyawshE5iAq18Z0NpjDL10UiT 1wEBMyL+BgYYatQznbu6V8L5ZuljeG4FmWzdkoIoCxGcyGOxNdzIBCsWS9aNyzOaMSi/ rGlKR5Qg9wrXe/Nx+SDu3Gy5mraxMr67QtFGYS5Q5AH0AYDa6Fknl+TL23FB1hBX6r5I p4Vd9bdgzMQ/FRQbVgpwadDLg7j8IIBCuH1I6DjBQfJNv+72/82TQnJZuPqS9JU0Ib2j 7p9w== X-Gm-Message-State: AEkoout+jC5KzS5Mv6+17nSG1KsipAB32kfjm7znZyeF2qxsHcOL+lRO6B4iYwzWNMjzKA== X-Received: by 10.66.148.202 with SMTP id tu10mr15987421pab.52.1471629956408; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:05:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xeon-e3 (static-50-53-69-251.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net. [50.53.69.251]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 75sm8105861pfw.92.2016.08.19.11.05.55 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:05:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:06:07 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: =?UTF-8?B?xJDhu5cgSG/DoG5n?= Cc: users@dpdk.org Message-ID: <20160819110607.0d958994@xeon-e3> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Performance issue with 82546EB NICs X-BeenThere: users@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: usage discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 18:05:57 -0000 On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:53:12 +0800 =C4=90=E1=BB=97 Ho=C3=A0ng wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > I am using a dual-port Intel 82546EB to run the simple l2fwd application > (forward 64byte packets). >=20 > The result is terrible. My packet generator generates and sends about > 320Mb/s, but nearly a half of them are dropped, and only about 160Mb of > packets are forwarded every sec. >=20 > I have also tried to run dpdk-pktgen with this NIC and It can only genera= te > and send about 150Mb/s. >=20 > My NIC link speed is 1000Mb/s. I am wondering why its performance is so > slow like this. >=20 > Please help me. Any ideas/advices are appreciated. >=20 > Thanks. The first thing I would check is that ethernet flow control is disabled. Unless you are running on very slow hardware, the DPDK can saturate a 10G link with small packets.