Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Achieved 10Gbit/s bidirectional routing | From | Jesper Dangaard Brouer <> | Date | Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:50:31 +0200 |
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I'm giving a talk at LinuxCon, about 10Gbit/s routing on standard hardware running Linux.
http://linuxcon.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/1585 https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lc09o17
I'm getting some really good 10Gbit/s bidirectional routing results with Intels latest 82599 chip. (I got two pre-release engineering samples directly from Intel, thanks Peter)
Using a Core i7-920, and tuning the memory according to the RAMs X.M.P. settings DDR3-1600MHz, notice this also increases the QPI to 6.4GT/s. (Motherboard P6T6 WS revolution)
With big 1514 bytes packets, I can basically do 10Gbit/s wirespeed bidirectional routing.
Notice bidirectional routing means that we actually has to move approx 40Gbit/s through memory and in-and-out of the interfaces.
Formatted quick view using 'ifstat -b'
eth31-in eth31-out eth32-in eth32-out 9.57 + 9.52 + 9.51 + 9.60 = 38.20 Gbit/s 9.60 + 9.55 + 9.52 + 9.62 = 38.29 Gbit/s 9.61 + 9.53 + 9.52 + 9.62 = 38.28 Gbit/s 9.61 + 9.53 + 9.54 + 9.62 = 38.30 Gbit/s
[Adding an extra NIC]
Another observation is that I'm hitting some kind of bottleneck on the PCI-express switch. Adding an extra NIC in a PCIe slot connected to the same PCIe switch, does not scale beyond 40Gbit/s collective throughput.
But, I happened to have a special motherboard ASUS P6T6 WS revolution, which has an additional PCIe switch chip NVIDIA's NF200.
Connecting two dual port 10GbE NICs via two different PCI-express switch chips, makes things scale again! I have achieved a collective throughput of 66.25 Gbit/s. This results is also influenced by my pktgen machines cannot keep up, and I'm getting closer to the memory bandwidth limits.
FYI: I found a really good reference explaining the PCI-express architecture, written by Intel:
http://download.intel.com/design/intarch/papers/321071.pdf
I'm not sure how to explain the PCI-express chip bottleneck I'm seeing, but my guess is that I'm limited by the number of outstanding packets/DMA-transfers and the latency for the DMA operations.
Does any one have datasheets on the X58 and NVIDIA's NF200 PCI-express chips, that can tell me the number of outstanding transfers they support?
-- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards Jesper Brouer ComX Networks A/S Linux Network developer Cand. Scient Datalog / MSc. Author of http://adsl-optimizer.dk LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
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