Performance problem using Intel X520-DA2

[Ivan Voras]

On 24/01/2012 17:53, Marcin Markowski wrote:
> On 24.01.2012 14:22, Ivan Voras wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Marcin
>>> Markowski<mmarkowski at leon.pl>wrote:
>>
>>>> (on 9.0 we can see also kernel thread named {ix0 que} using 100% CPU),
>>
>>>> hw.ixgbe.num_queues=16
>>
>> If there really are 16 hardware queues, shouldn't there be 16 kernel
>> threads for queue processing?
>
> There are 16 threads, but only one of them consumes 100% CPU and the others
> do not use more than 5% CPU:
>
> http://pastebin.com/BWDWh8kW

You need Jack to confirm it but this looks like a serious problem / 
bottleneck. It just shouldn't be like that (if the test is exactly the 
same).