Myrinet 10GE performance on 7.0-CURRENT

Petr Holub hopet at ics.muni.cz
Fri Oct 12 07:11:26 PDT 2007


> Thanks for that. So its showing ~ 600k pps throughput. I'd love to
> know whats setting that upper limit - is it iperf? Userspace?
> Interrupt thread/device driver? Other kernel stuff?

When measuring using ipef, it is iperf itself with high probability,
as the netperf tool can achieve much better performance on small
packets. I plan to integrate iperf patch mentioned in Linux
kernel list to see if there's any difference.

Petr



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