p2020 tcp throughput

parkmanchan — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 02:41:10 GMT

Hi folks,

What would be the expected TCP throughput on a P2020?

I'm getting a Rx/Tx bandwidth of around 850Mbits/s when testing Rx/Tx separately, but when testing Rx/Tx at the same time, the Rx throughput drops to less than 300Mbits/s, with Tx at around 800Mbits/s. What could be the problem here? Is this limited by the CPU?

Details of the test setup.

PC1 -> P2020 eth0 -> PC2

P2020 running Linux 2.6.35, TCP bandwidth testing with iperf 2.0.5

1. Rx bandwidth

on the P2020

iperf -s

PC1

iperf -c P2020_ip

2. Tx bandwidth

on the P2020

iperf -c PC2_ip

PC2

iperf -s

3. Runs 1 and 2 at the same time for testing Rx/Tx at the same time.

Thanks.

Re: p2020 tcp throughput

yipingwang — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 10:30:46 GMT

Hello Park man Chan,

Since you are using the old version Linux 2.6.35, the throughput should be a little lower than the expected result, with the latest SDK, the throughput is much better than your result. Not sure what is your testing frame size, because larger frame gets better throughput.

For the behavior Rx throughput dropping much than Tx, this should be normal, because for netperf(iperf) testing, the bottleneck is CPU.

Have a great day,
Yiping

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