[Click] 10GE Click performance

[Roman Chertov]

Cliff,

I'll give that a shot, but I am not sure if the myricom supports these 
particular ethtool settings.  I suppose I will find out tomorrow.

Roman

On 02/08/2012 09:17 PM, Cliff Frey wrote:
> Not sure if you are still working on this, but it is possible that
> receive offload could affect/hurt you by causing non-linear skbs.
>
> to see offload settings:
> ethtool -k eth0
>
> disable receive offload:
> ethtool -K eth0 gro off lro off
>
> it might be worth a shot if it is still easy for you to test.  This is a
> somewhat random guess though.
>
> Cliff
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:21 AM, rchertov <rchertov at cs.ucsb.edu
> <mailto:rchertov at cs.ucsb.edu>> wrote:
>
>
>      > I wonder if you could print out what nskb->data_len is. It would also
>      > be great if you had some more time to investigate. Do you know what
>      > elements you plan to include in the data path?
>
>     I don't think the problem pertains to just the Myricom card.  I have an
>     Intel Oplin dual port card (same chipset as needed for RouteBricks).  I
>     connected both ports with a single loopback cable and ran the following
>     config on CentOS5.4 running 2.6.24.7 patched kernel. (click was pulled
>     from git last week commit: f91e115902a1792efca1592a90bb4ac95abaa7e2)
>
>     src1 :: RatedSource(LENGTH 2112, RATE 250000)
>          -> UDPIPEncap(SRC 10.1.1.4, SPORT 6667, DST 10.1.1.2, DPORT 6667)
>          -> EtherEncap(0x0800, 00:60:DD:47:94:2A, 00:15:17:7C:E4:A1)
>          -> ctr1 :: AverageCounter
>          -> td :: ToDevice(eth2, BURST 16);
>
>     fd :: FromDevice(eth3, PROMISC true, BURST 32)
>         -> ctr2 :: AverageCounter
>         -> Discard;
>
>
>     Without linearlize (250K pps)
>     chatter: skb_len: 2112  (I printed this in FromDevice got_skb())
>     more /click/ctr2/rate
>     250640
>
>
>     With linearlize
>     chatter: skb_len: 2112
>
>     more /click/ctr2/rate
>     173567
>
>
>
>     I don't have a well planned list of elements that I plan to use right
>     now, but for right now, I am developing a few elements of my own to
>     support bridging for a high-speed UDP data flow.
>
>     Roman
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