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SubjectRe: e1000 full-duplex TCP performance well below wire speed
Hi David,

Thanks for your note.

>> (The performance of a full duplex stream should be close to 1Gb/s in
>> both directions.)
>
> This is not a reasonable expectation.
>
> ACKs take up space on the link in the opposite direction of the
> transfer.
>
> So the link usage in the opposite direction of the transfer is
> very far from zero.

Indeed, we are not asking to see 1000 Mb/s. We'd be happy to see 900
Mb/s.

Netperf is trasmitting a large buffer in MTU-sized packets (min 1500
bytes). Since the acks are only about 60 bytes in size, they should be
around 4% of the total traffic. Hence we would not expect to see more
than 960 Mb/s.

We have run these same tests on older kernels (with Broadcomm NICS) and
gotten above 900 Mb/s full duplex.

Cheers,
Bruce


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