[dpdk-dev] L2fwd Performance issue with Virtual Machine

2013-10-05 Thread Vincent JARDIN
t; Correction: "you would NOT get optimal performance benefit having PMD" >> >> Thanks, >> Rashmin >> -Original Message- >> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Patel, Rashmin N >> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 10:47 AM >&

[dpdk-dev] L2fwd Performance issue with Virtual Machine

2013-10-05 Thread Patel, Rashmin N
t dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] L2fwd Performance issue with Virtual Machine I disagree Rashmin. We did measurements with 64 bytes packets: the Linux kernel of the guest is the bottleneck, so the vmxnet3 PMD helps to increase the packet rate of the Linux guests. PMD helps within guest for packet

[dpdk-dev] L2fwd Performance issue with Virtual Machine

2013-10-04 Thread Patel, Rashmin N
[dpdk-dev] L2fwd Performance issue with Virtual Machine Hi, If you are not using SRIOV or direct device assignment to VM, your traffic hits vSwitch(via vmware native ixgbe driver and network stack) in the ESX and switched to your E1000/VMXNET3 interface connected to a VM. The vSwitch is not

[dpdk-dev] L2fwd Performance issue with Virtual Machine

2013-10-04 Thread Patel, Rashmin N
arch shows across multiple hypervisors. Thanks, Rashmin -Original Message- From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Selvaganapathy Chidambaram Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 2:39 PM To: dev at dpdk.org Subject: [dpdk-dev] L2fwd Performance issue with Virtual Machine Hello Everyon

[dpdk-dev] L2fwd Performance issue with Virtual Machine

2013-10-04 Thread Selvaganapathy Chidambaram
o: Selvaganapathy Chidambaram > Cc: dev at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] L2fwd Performance issue with Virtual Machine > > Hi, > > If you are not using SRIOV or direct device assignment to VM, your traffic > hits vSwitch(via vmware native ixgbe driver and network stack) in

[dpdk-dev] L2fwd Performance issue with Virtual Machine

2013-10-03 Thread Selvaganapathy Chidambaram
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