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* Performance of CX7 with 'eth' pattern versus 'eth/ipv4' in hairpin
@ 2024-06-26 11:39 Tony Hart
  2024-06-26 12:10 ` Bing Zhao
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Tony Hart @ 2024-06-26 11:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: users

I'm using a CX7 and testing hairpin queues.  The test traffic is
entirely IPv4+UDP with distributed SIP,DIP pairs and received packets
are u-turned via hairpin in the CX7 (single 400G interface).

I see different performance when I use a pattern of 'eth' versus
'eth/ipv4' in the hairpin flow entry.  From testing it seems that
specifying just 'eth' is sufficient to invoke RSS and 'eth/ipv4'
should be equivalent since the traffic is all ipv4, but I'm getting
~104Gbps for the 'eth' pattern and  ~124Gbps for 'eth/ipv4' pattern.

Any thoughts on why there is such a performance difference here?

thanks
tony

This is the 'eth' pattern testpmd commands
flow create 0 ingress group 0 pattern end actions jump group 1 / end
flow create 0 ingress group 1 pattern eth / end actions count / rss
queues 6 7 8 9 end / end

The testpmd commands for 'eth/ipv4'
flow create 0 ingress group 0 pattern end actions jump group 1 / end
flow create 0 ingress group 1 pattern eth / ipv4 / end actions count /
rss queues 6 7 8 9 end / end


This is the testpmd command line...
dpdk-testpmd -l8-14 -a81:00.0,dv_flow_en=1 -- -i --nb-cores 6 --rxq 6
--txq 6 --port-topology loop --forward-mode=rxonly --hairpinq 4
--hairpin-mode 0x10

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