[ofa-general] Re: [Bug 506] IPoIB IPv4 multicast throughput is poor

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at dev.mellanox.co.il
Sun Apr 1 13:18:02 PDT 2007


> The low throughput is a major issue, though.  Shouldn't the IP multicast
> throughput be similar to the UDP unicast throughput?

Is the send side a send only member of multicast group, or full member?
If it's a full join, HCA creates extra loopback traffic which
has then to be discarded, and which might explain performance degradation.

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MST



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