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* [dpdk-users] [ConnectX-5 MCX515A-CCAT / MCX516A-CCAT] Can only generate 53Gb/s with 64B packets
@ 2020-03-11 23:40 Yan Lei
  2020-03-11 23:44 ` Yan Lei
  2020-03-12  6:45 ` sachin gupta
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Yan Lei @ 2020-03-11 23:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: users

Hi, I am currently struggling in getting more than 53Gb/s with 64B packets on both of the MCX515A-CCAT and MCX516A-CCAT adapter when running a DPDK app that generates and transmits packets. WIth 256B packets I can get 98Gb/s.

Has anyone saw the same performance on these NICs? I checked the perf. report on https://core.dpdk.org/perf-reports/ but there are no numbers of these NICs.



Is this inherent limitation of these NICs (only reach 100Gb/s with larger packets)? If not, which firmware/driver/DPDK/system configurations could I tune to get 100Gb/s with 64B packets? My setup is as following: - CPU: E5-2697 v3 (14 cores, SMT disabled, CPU frequency fixed @ 2.6 GHz) - NIC: Mellanox MCX515A-CCAT / MCX516A-CCAT (Using only one port for TX, installed on PCIe Gen3 x16) - DPDK: 19.05 - RDMA-CORE: v28.0 - Kernel: 5.3.0 - OS: Ubuntu 18.04 - Firmware: 16.26.1040 I measured the TX rate with DPDK's testpmd: $ ./testpmd -l 3-13 -n 4 -w 02:00.0 -- -i --port-topology=chained --nb-ports=1 --rxq=10 --txq=10 --nb-cores=10 --burst=128 --rxd=512 --txd=512 --mbcache=512 --forward-mode=txonly So 10 cores generating and transmits 64B packets on 10 NIC queues. Your feedbacks will be much appreciated.

Thanks, Lei

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2020-03-12  6:45 ` sachin gupta
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