MVEBU and MVNETA driver

Willy Tarreau w at 1wt.eu
Fri Apr 19 10:43:24 EDT 2013


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 04:13:19PM +0200, Greg wrote:
> Willy, thanks for your fast an accurate answer, this seems to solve the 
> stability issue but not the performance issue.

OK.

> Please look at this strange behavior : 1 iperf will only transmit at 
> ~100Mbps, 100 parallel iperf will transmit at ~950Mb. Reception is not 
> an issue.
> I'm thinking of a socket <-> txQ relationship that would limit 
> transmission rate, but I have no idea on how this is implemented.

Strange, I have not experienced this. Yes a socket size limit could be
the reason. Have you tried with netcat or any simple TCP server instead ?

> >PS: is it indiscrete to ask what board this is ?
> I designed the board myself, if you already heard about it I'd be glad 
> to know you told you about it ;-)

Wow, impressed !

Willy




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