[dpdk-dev] Poor SRIOV performance with ESXi Linux guest

2015-09-03 Thread Ale Mansoor
CONFIG_UIO_PCI_GENERIC=m # CONFIG_UIO_NETX is not set # CONFIG_UIO_MF624 is not set -- Regards Ale > Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 15:31:04 -0700 > From: stephen at networkplumber.org > To: mansooraa at hotmail.com > CC: dev at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Poor SRIOV performance with ESXi Linu

[dpdk-dev] Poor SRIOV performance with ESXi Linux guest

2015-09-02 Thread Ale Mansoor
Getting less than 100 packets per second throughput between VF's under my Fedora FC20 VM running under ESXi 6.0 with DPDK l2fwd (Used as ./l2fwd -c 0xf -n 4 -- -p 0x3 -T 1) Questions: --- Q1) Is DPDK + SRIOV under ESXi supposed to use the igb_uio driver or the vfio-pci driver insi

[dpdk-dev] Poor SRIOV performance with ESXi Linux guest

2015-09-02 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 22:18:27 + Ale Mansoor wrote: > Getting less than 100 packets per second throughput between VF's under my > Fedora FC20 VM running under ESXi 6.0 with DPDK l2fwd (Used as ./l2fwd -c 0xf > -n 4 -- -p 0x3 -T 1) That is many orders of magnitude less than expected. > Ques