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

[John Jasen]

On 03/17/2017 03:32 PM, Navdeep Parhar wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 12:21 PM, John Jasen <jjasen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes.
>> We were hopeful, initially, to be able to achieve higher packet
>> forwarding rates through either netmap-fwd or due to enhancements based
>> off https://wiki.freebsd.org/ProjectsRoutingProposal
> Have you tried netmap-fwd?  I'd be interested in how that did in your tests.

We have. On this particular box, (11-STABLE, netmap-fwd fresh from git)
it took about 1.7m pps in, dropped 500k, and passed about 800k.

I'm lead to believe that vcxl interfaces may yield better results?

Thanks!