From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Simon Chen <simonchennj@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: under-performing bonded interfaces
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:36:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111221173608.0f04bc8b@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANj2Eben0hrP6KwxyA1WPqiqzm84w=J2_sdtrKtGvxdftuksqg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:26:04 -0500
Simon Chen <simonchennj@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I added an Intel X520 card to both the sender and receiver... Now I
> have two 10G ports on a PCIe 2.0 x8 slot (5Gx8), so the bandwidth of
> the PCI bus shouldn't be the bottleneck.
>
> Now the throughput test gives me around 16Gbps in aggregate. Any ideas
> how I can push closer to 20G? I don't quite understand where the
> bottleneck is now.
In my experience, Intel dual port cards can not run at full speed
when both ports are in use. You need separate slots to hit full
line rate.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-22 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-16 23:44 under-performing bonded interfaces Simon Chen
2011-11-17 0:01 ` Ben Greear
2011-11-17 0:05 ` Simon Chen
2011-11-17 0:07 ` Ben Greear
2011-11-17 0:57 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-11-17 1:38 ` Simon Chen
2011-11-17 1:45 ` Simon Chen
2011-11-17 1:45 ` Rick Jones
2011-11-17 2:51 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-12-22 1:26 ` Simon Chen
2011-12-22 1:36 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-12-22 3:31 ` Ben Greear
2011-12-22 2:28 ` Simon Chen
2011-12-22 5:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-23 15:03 ` Simon Chen
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