bad throughput performance on multiple systems: Re: Fwd: Re: Disappointing packets-per-second performance results on a Dell,PE R530

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 03:21:37PM -0400, John Jasen wrote:

> On 03/17/2017 06:08 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 03:50:42PM -0400, John Jasen wrote:
> >
> >> As a few points of note, partial resolution, and curiosity:
> >>
> >> Following down leads that 11-STABLE had tryforward improvements over
> >> 11-RELENG, I upgraded. The same tests (24 client streams over UDP with
> >> small packets), the system went from passing 1.7m pps to about 2.5m.
> >>
> >> Following indications from Navdeep Parhar that UDP queue hashing is not as
> >> efficient as it could be, we started running the tests with various powers
> >> of 2 streams (2,4,8,16,32) -- and were able to push the system up to 5m pps.
> >>
> >> We are currently seeing in the tests approximately 10-11m pps on the
> >> outside interface, around 5-6m dropped, and 5 million passed.
> > You want more?
> 
> Yes.

OK. How many?
What the current utilisation per core?
What exactly hardware and software used?

I mean netmap don't give to you many performance gain.