[ofa-general] ipoib performanec at smaller mtu
Ben
ben at lanl.gov
Mon Mar 9 17:19:23 PDT 2009
I have a similar setup in datagram, and don't see a big difference.
Are these numbers expected? I guess I would like to understand the
limitations. It seams like these numbers are a bit below what the
hardware is capable of even with lro off.
-Ben
On Mar 9, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Boris Shpolyansky wrote:
> I think for small MTU sizes you will see better performance with IPoIB
> in datagram mode.
>
> Boris Shpolyansky
> Sr. Member of Technical Staff, Applications
>
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> Benjamin M.
> McClelland
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:19 PM
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> Subject: [ofa-general] ipoib performanec at smaller mtu
>
> I was curious what other people are seeing for 1500 mtu performance on
> ipoib. Current tests are showing that I get about 150-175MB/s no
> matter
> how many streams. If I go up to higher mtu, then performance
> significantly increases. Due to the storage network that this ib is
> routing to, we are currently limited to 1500 mtu.
>
> ofed 1.4.1, connected mode, dual opteron dual core 1.8GHz, Mellanox
> Technologies MT25418 [ConnectX IB DDR, PCIe 2.0 2.5GT/s] (rev a0) fw
> 2.6.000, voltaire sm on switch
>
> lro disabled, send_queue_size=256
>
> thanks,
> -Ben
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