Ivan Voras wrote: > I've noticed something strange: the server is bottlenecked with "em1 > taskq" kernel thread taking 100% of a CPU core, while the global CPU > utilization is around 50%, but the client's em0 taskq thread for this > same load is ~~ 10% (with > 30% idle). The client CPU is a bit faster > then the server (2.4 GHz vs 2.0 GHz) but I don't think this can account > for such a big difference. Toggling TSO on the server doesn't help.
I've switched the server and the client role and the behaviour is always the same - on this one machine the taskq starts using 100% of a core when pushing more than about 150,000 PPS. It's the same when testing under Linux so it looks like I need to shop for a better NIC. Can anyone recommend a good but basic (no fancy features needed) PCI-E or PCI-X NIC that's known to be able to push > 500,000 PPS?
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