From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com ([205.139.110.120]:54800 "EHLO us-smtp-1.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728641AbgAMREX (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:04:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:04:11 +0100 From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Subject: Re: zero-copy between interfaces Message-ID: <20200113180411.24d8bd40@carbon> In-Reply-To: <20200113152759.GD68570@smtp.ads.isi.edu> References: <14f9e1bf5c3a41dbaec53f83cb5f0564@isi.edu> <20200113124134.3974cbed@carbon> <20200113152759.GD68570@smtp.ads.isi.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: xdp-newbies-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ryan Goodfellow Cc: brouer@redhat.com, "xdp-newbies@vger.kernel.org" On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:28:00 -0500 Ryan Goodfellow wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 12:41:34PM +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:18:36 +0000 > > Ryan Goodfellow wrote: > > > > > The numbers that I have been able to achive with this code are the following. MTU > > > is 1500 in all cases. > > > > > > mlx5: pps ~ 2.4 Mpps, 29 Gbps (driver mode, zero-copy) > > > i40e: pps ~ 700 Kpps, 8 Gbps (skb mode, copy) > > > virtio: pps ~ 200 Kpps, 2.4 Gbps (skb mode, copy, all qemu/kvm VMs) > > > > > > Are these numbers in the ballpark of what's expected? > > > > I would say they are too slow / low. > > > > Have you remembered to do bulking? > > > > I am using a batch size of 256. Hmm... Maybe you can test with xdp_redirect_map program in samples/bpf/ and compare the performance on this hardware? -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer