Hello, all. I play the dpdk-1.2.3r1 with examples. But I can not achieve the line-rate packet receive performance, and the performance is not scale with multiple ports. For example, in example l2fwd, I have tested two cases with 2 ports, and 4 ports, using belowed command line each ./build/l2fwd -cf -n3 -- -p3 ./build/l2fwd -cf -n3 -- -pf But both cases, the aggregated performance are not scale. == experiments environments == - Two Intel 82599 NICs (total 4 ports) - Intel Xeon X5690 @ 3.47GHz * 2 (total 12 cores) - 1024 * 2MB hugepages - Linux 2.6.38-15-server - Each ports receiving 10Gbps of traffic of 64 bytes packets, 14.88Mpps. *1. Packet forwarding performance* In 2 ports case, receive performance is 13Mpps, In 4 ports case, not 26Mbps, only 16.8Mpps. Port statistics ==================================== Statistics for port 0 ------------------------------ Packets sent: 4292256 Packets received: 6517396 Packets dropped: 2224776 Statistics for port 1 ------------------------------ Packets sent: 4291840 Packets received: 6517044 Packets dropped: 2225556 Aggregate statistics =============================== Total packets sent: 8584128 Total packets received: 13034472 Total packets dropped: 4450332 ==================================================== Port statistics ==================================== Statistics for port 0 ------------------------------ Packets sent: 1784064 Packets received: 2632700 Packets dropped: 848128 Statistics for port 1 ------------------------------ Packets sent: 1784104 Packets received: 2632196 Packets dropped: 848596 Statistics for port 2 ------------------------------ Packets sent: 3587616 Packets received: 5816344 Packets dropped: 2200176 Statistics for port 3 ------------------------------ Packets sent: 3587712 Packets received: 5787848 Packets dropped: 2228684 Aggregate statistics =============================== Total packets sent: 10743560 Total packets received: 16869152 Total packets dropped: 6125608 ==================================================== *2. Packet receiving performance* I fix the codes for only receiving packets (not forwarding), the performance is still not scalable as each 13.3Mpps, 18Mpps. Port statistics ==================================== Statistics for port 0 ------------------------------ Packets sent: 0 Packets received: 6678860 Packets dropped: 0 Statistics for port 1 ------------------------------ Packets sent: 0 Packets received: 6646120 Packets dropped: 0 Aggregate statistics =============================== Total packets sent: 0 Total packets received: 13325012 Total packets dropped: 0 ==================================================== Port statistics ==================================== Statistics for port 0 ------------------------------ Packets sent: 0 Packets received: 3129624 Packets dropped: 0 Statistics for port 1 ------------------------------ Packets sent: 0 Packets received: 3131292 Packets dropped: 0 Statistics for port 2 ------------------------------ Packets sent: 0 Packets received: 6260908 Packets dropped: 0 Statistics for port 3 ------------------------------ Packets sent: 0 Packets received: 6238764 Packets dropped: 0 Aggregate statistics =============================== Total packets sent: 0 Total packets received: 18760640 Total packets dropped: 0 ==================================================== The question is that 1. How I can achieve each port receiving full 14.88Mpps ? What might be the bottleneck in current environment? 2. Why the performance using multiple ports is not scale? I guess doubling ports shows the doubling the receiving performance, but it shows not. I am curious about what is limiting the packet receivng performance. Thanks, Shinae