I think we can, might take us a day or two to get time to do it.

Thanks,
Ben

On 03/16/2017 08:05 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
I'm not really interested in installing a custom version of pktgen.
Any chance you can recreate the issue with standard pktgen?

You might try running perf to get a snapshot of what is using CPU time
on the system.  It will probably give you a pretty good idea where the
code is that is eating up all your CPU time.

- Alex

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com> wrote:
I'm actually using a hacked up version of pktgen nicely driven by our
GUI tool, but the crux is that you need to set min and max src IP to some
large
range.

We are driving pktgen from a separate machine.  Stock pktgen isn't good at
reporting
received pkts last I checked, so it may be more difficult to easily view the
problem.

I'll be happy to set up my tool on your Fedora 24 or similar VM or machine
if you
want.

Thanks,
Ben


On 03/16/2017 07:35 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote:

Can you include the pktgen script you are running?

Also when you say you are driving traffic through the bridge are you
sending from something external on the system or are you actually
directing the traffic from pktgen into the bridge directly?

- Alex

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com>
wrote:

Hello,

We notice that when using two igb ports as a bridge, if we use pktgen to
drive traffic through the bridge and randomize (or use a very large
range)
for the source IP addr in pktgen, then performance of igb is very poor
(like
150Mbps
throughput instead of 1Gbps).  It runs right at line speed if we use same
src/dest
IP addr in pktgen.  So, seems it is related to lots of src/dest IP
addresses.

We see same problem when using pktgen to send to itself, and we see this
in
several different kernels.  We specifically tested bridge mode in this
stock
Fedora kernel:

 Linux lfo350-59cc 4.9.13-101.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 7 23:48:32 UTC
2017
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

e1000e does not show this problem in our testing.

Any ideas what the issue might be and how to fix it?

Thanks,
Ben

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Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com



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