Gigabit ethernet questions?

Dima Roshin roshind at mail.ru
Wed Aug 9 11:36:07 UTC 2006


 Greeting colleagues. I've got two DL-360(pciX bus) servers, with BCM5704 NetXtreme Dual Gigabit Adapters(bge). The Uname is 6.1-RELEASE-p3. The bge interfaces of the both servers are connected with each other with a cat6 patchcord.
   Here are my settings:
kernel config:
options DEVICE_POLLING 
options HZ=1000 #

sysctl.conf:
kern.polling.enable=1
net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen=5000
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=8388608
net.inet.tcp.sendspace=3217968
net.inet.tcp.recvspace=3217968
net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1

bge1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 9000
        options=5b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,POLLING>
        inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
        ether 00:17:a4:3a:e1:81
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
(note mtu 9000)

and here are tests results:

netperf:

TCP STREAM TEST to 192.168.0.1
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

6217968 6217968 6217968    10.22     320.04

UDP UNIDIRECTIONAL SEND TEST to 192.168.0.1
Socket  Message  Elapsed      Messages
Size    Size     Time         Okay Errors   Throughput
bytes   bytes    secs            #      #   10^6bits/sec

  9216    9216   10.00      118851 1724281     876.20
41600           10.00           0              0.00]



iperf:
gate2# iperf -s -N
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 3.07 MByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  4] local 192.168.0.2 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.1 port 52597
[  4]  0.0-10.1 sec    384 MBytes    319 Mbits/sec

Also I can say, that I've managed to achieve about 500mbit.s by tuning tcp window with -w key in iperf.

How can we explain such a low tcp performance? What else is to tune? Is there somebody who achieved gigabit speed with tcp on freebsd?

Thanks.





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