From: Paul Emmerich <emmericp@net.in.tum.de>
To: users@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-users] ixgbe performance on Xeon E3 CPUs with Linux >= 3.16
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 21:24:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57A0F351.6020709@net.in.tum.de> (raw)
Hi,
we've encountered a weird performance issue in a tx only scenario: The
performance drops by about 30% to 40% with the following configuration.
* i7 or Xeon E3 CPU
* Linux kernel 3.16 or later (tested 3.16, 3.19, and 4.4)
* ixgbe-based NIC
The problem goes away if I either use an Xeon E5, an older Linux kernel
(tested 3.13 and 3.7), or an i40e-based NIC.
I suspect that this is related to DDIO since a "proper" server CPU
solves the problem.
Any ideas how to mitigate this? This issue currently keeps us from
upgrading the OS of an old Ubuntu 14.04.01-based machine.
Paul
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