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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [pull request][net-next 0/9] Mellanox, mlx5 XDP TX 100 Million
 packet per second
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 16:43:24 +0100
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 23:06:38 -0800
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> wrote:

> XDP_TX:
> We see a huge gain on single port ConnectX-5, and reach the 100 Mpps
> milestone.
> * Single-port HCA:
> 	Before:   70 Mpps
> 	After:   100 Mpps (+42.8%)

Great, this confirm that we were hitting a PCIe limit in our XDP-paper.
See graph[1] leveling off at 70Mpps for XDP_TX.

[1] https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-project/blob/master/conference/LinuxPlumbers2018/images/redirect-test.pdf
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  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
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