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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: pktgen: tricks
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:41:41 -0700
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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:49:02 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:

> I thought others want to know how to get maximum speed of pktgen.
> 
> 1. Run nothing else (even X11), just a command line
> 2. Make sure ethernet flow control is disabled
>    ethtool -A eth0 autoneg off rx off tx off
> 3. Make sure clocksource is TSC.  On my old SMP Opteron's
>    needed to get patch since in 2.6.30 or later, the clock guru's
>    decided to remove it on all non Intel machines.  Look for patch
>    than enables "tsc=reliable"
> 4. Compile Ethernet drivers in, the overhead of the indirect
>    function call required for modules (or cache footprint),
>    slows things down.
> 5. Increase transmit ring size to 1000
>    ethtool -G eth0 tx 1000
> 
> Result: OK: 70408581(c70405979+d2602) nsec, 100000000 (60byte,0frags)
>   1420281pps 681Mb/sec (681734880bps) errors: 0

Other kernel config help:
  - turn off lock dependency checker, kmecheck, page alloc debug
    basically anything that slows stuff down
  - turn off content group scheduler