NFS on 10G interface terribly slow

[Rick Macklem]

Gerrit Kuhn wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 20:42:08 -0400 (EDT) Rick Macklem
> <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca> wrote about Re: NFS on 10G interface terribly slow:
> 
> RM> Btw, can you tell us what Intel chip(s) you're using?
> 
> I have
> 
> ix0 at pci0:5:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00028086 chip=0x15288086 rev=0x01
> hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = 'Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> 
Yea, I don't know how to decode this either. I was actually interested in
what chip Scott was using and getting wire speed.
As noted in the other reply, since disabling TSO didn't help, you probably
aren't affected by this issue.

rick

> RM> For example, from the "ix" driver:
> RM> #define IXGBE_82598_SCATTER		100
> RM> #define IXGBE_82599_SCATTER		32
> 
> Hm, I cannot find out into which chipset number this translates for my
> device...
> 
> RM> Btw, it appears that the driver in head/current now sets
> RM> if_hw_tsomaxsegcount, but the driver in stable/10 does not. This means
> RM> that the 82599 chip will end up doing the m_defrag() calls for 10.x.
> 
> So the next step could even be updating to -current...
> OTOH, I get the same (bad) resulsts, no matter if TSO is enabled or
> disabled on the interface.
> 
> 
> cu
>   Gerrit
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