Hello Everyone, I have tried to run DPDK sample application l2fwd(modified to support multiple queues) in my ESX Virtual Machine. I see that performance is not scaling with cores. [My apologies for the long email]
*Setup:* Connected VM to two ports of Spirent with 10Gig link. Sent 10 Gig traffic of L3 packet of length 1500 bytes (with four different flows) from Spirent through one port and received at the second port. Also sent traffic from reverse direction so that net traffic is 20 Gbps. Haven't enabled SR-IOV or Direct path I/O. *Emulated Driver:* With default emulated driver, I got 7.3 Gbps for 1 core. Adding multiple cores did not improve the performance. On debugging I noticed that function eth_em_infos_get() says RSS is not supported. *vmxnet3_usermap:* Then I tried extension vmxnet3_usermap and got 8.7 Gbps for 1 core. Again adding another core did not help. On debugging, I noticed that in vmxnet3 kernel driver (in function vmxnet3_probe_device) , RSS is disabled if * adapter->is_shm* is non zero. In our case, its VMXNET3_SHM_USERMAP_DRIVER which is non zero. Before trying to enable it, I would like to know if there is any known limitation why RSS is not enabled in both the drivers. Please help me understand. *Hardware Configuration:* Hardware : Intel Xeon 2.4 Ghz 4 CPUs Hyperthreading : No RAM : 16 GB Hypervisor : ESXi 5.1 Ethernet : Intel 82599EB 10 Gig SFP Guest VM : 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM GuestOS : Centos 6.2 32 bit Thanks in advance for your time and help!!! Thanks, Selva.
