RE: Gigabit/SMP performance problem

[Ronciak, John]

All,

We (Intel - LAN Access Division, e1000 driver) are taking a look at what is
going on here.  We don't have any data yet but we'll keep you posted on what
we find.

Thanks for your patients.

Cheers,
John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Olsson [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 10:16 AM
> To: Avery Fay
> Cc: Anton Blanchard; [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: Gigabit/SMP performance problem
> 
> 
> 
> Avery Fay writes:
>  > Hmm. That paper is actually very interesting. I'm thinking 
> maybe with the 
>  > P4 I'm better off with only 1 cpu. WRT hyperthreading, I 
> actually disabled > it because it make performance worse 
> (wasn't clear in the original email).
> 
> 
>  With 1CPU-SMP-HT I'm on UP level of performance this with 
> forwarding two 
>  single flows evenly distributes between CPU's. So HT payed 
> the SMP cost so 
>  to say.
>  
>  Also I tested the MB bandwidth with new threaded version of 
> pktgen just 
>  TX'ing a packets on 6 GIGE I'm seeing almost 6 Gbit/s TX'ed 
> w 1500 bytes
>  packets.
> 
>  I have problem populating all slots w. GIGE NIC's. WoL (Wake 
> on Lan) this
>  is a real pain... Seems like my adapters needs a standby 
> current 0.8A and 
>  most Power Supplies gives 2.0A for this. (Number come from 
> SuperMicro). 
>  So booting fails radomlingy. You have 8 NIC's -- Didn't you 
> have problem?
> 
>  Anyway I'll guess profiling is needed?
> 
>  Cheers.
> 						--ro
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