DISCLAIMER: This information is not verified. This is truly my personal opinion.
As I know, intel 82599 is the only 10G NIC which supports line rate with minimum sized packets (64 byte). According to our internal tests, Mellanox's 40G NICs even support less than 30Mpps. I think 40 Mpps is the hardware capacity. Keunhong. 2015-06-28 19:34 GMT+09:00 Pavel Odintsov <pavel.odintsov at gmail.com>: > Hello, folks! > > We have execute bunch of tests for receive data with Intel XL710 40GE > NIC. We want to achieve wire speed on this platform for traffic > capture. > > But we definitely can't do it. We tried with different versions of > DPDK: 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 2.0. And have not success. > > We achieved only 40Mpps and could do more. > > Could anybody help us with this issue? Looks like this NIC's could not > work on wire speed :( > > Platform: Intel Xeon E5 e5 2670 + XL 710. > > -- > Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov >