igb dual-port adapter 1200Mbps limit - what to tune?

[Vlad Galu]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Eugene Perevyazko <john at dnepro.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:04:28PM +0200, Eugene Perevyazko wrote:
>>
>> I have a router running RELENG_7 with two dual-port igbs - igb0 and igb1 are on
>> 82575 on intel s5520ur mb and igb2 and igb3 are on 82576 on ET dual-port card.
>> 82576 is in 8x slot.
>> Main traffic flows from igb0+igb1 to igb2+igb3, less traffic goes back.
>> There's no traffic flow in directions igb0 - igb1 and igb2 - igb3.
>>
>> There are vlans on all interfaces.
>>
>> igb0 and igb1 are outbound links.
>> igb2 and igb3 are connected to switch.
>> CPU is E5620 at 2.4GHz, 8 cores, irqs bound to different cores skipping HT ones.
>> Tried 2 queues and 1 queue per iface, neither hitting cpu limit.
>>
>> The problem is that traffic through igb2+igb3 is limited at around 1200Mbps Tx
>> while I was hoping for 1600-1800Mbps Tx.
>>
>
> I'd like to say that now this host is forwarding 1710 Mb/s @ 189 kpps in one direction + 411 Mb/s @ 140 kpps in reverse direction (30 minutes average).
> The following changes were made:
>  - no lagg in use
>  - only one vlan left instead of 5 vlans
>  - added motherboard module 'HP NC360T PCIe DP Gigabit Server Adapter (n1e5132)' with 2 em interfaces (only one used)
>  - 3 interfaces are connected to hosts with patchcords, not through switch
>  - hyperthreading turned off in bios
>  - igb driver patched to reduce irq rate and make it tunable (patch follows)
>  - hw.igb.num_queues=4, dev.igb.*.enable_aim=0, dev.igb.*.default_intrrate=4000 the last sysctl is added in patch)
>  - igb queues manually repinned to different cores
>  - ipfw rules minimized

Can you please run a test with IPFW disabled? It's best to avoid using
a firewall where throughput is the primary goal.

>
> igb driver used is 1.9.6/RELENG_7, igb.c version 1.3.2.12
>
> Can't say for sure whether there is a key change or is it all changes summed up,
> sorry.
>
> --
> Eugene Perevyazko
>
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