ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:27:41AM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote:

> hi,
> 	I have a host (Dell R730) with both cards, connected to an HP8200 switch at 10Gb.
> 	when writing to the same storage (netapp) this is what I get:
> 		ix0:		~130MGB/s
> 		mlxen0	~330MGB/s
> 	this is via nfs/tcpv3
> 
> 	I can get similar (bad) performance with the mellanox if I increase the file size
> 	to 512MGB.
> 	so at face value, it seems the mlxen does a better use of resources than the intel.
> 	Any ideas how to improve ix/intel's performance?

Any way, please show

OS version
/var/run/dmesg.boot
What's tuning perfomed (loader.conf, sysctl.conf)?
top -PHS in both cases
ifconfig -a in both cases
netstat -rn in both cases
I am don't know netapp -- what is hardware configuration (disks and
etc) and software tuning (MTU?).