Re: poor performance with Intel X520 card

2020-09-18 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 08:45:30 +0200 Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Hello, > > That is mostly for the record but it looks like the intel X520 is not > very good and generates a high level of interrupts. ... Oh I forgot to thank you all for yours replies, sorry. I will try to play with the paramete

Re: poor performance with Intel X520 card

2020-07-16 Thread Eugene Grosbein
16.07.2020 16:03, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 16.07.2020 14:57, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > >>> I'm sure pf is the bottle-neck. Try testing such card without any >>> packet filter enabled and you'll see great difference definitely. >> >> That's not a good news as I don't see how to simplify the rule

Re: poor performance with Intel X520 card

2020-07-16 Thread Eugene Grosbein
16.07.2020 14:57, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: >> I'm sure pf is the bottle-neck. Try testing such card without any >> packet filter enabled and you'll see great difference definitely. > > That's not a good news as I don't see how to simplify the ruleset :( > But thanks anyway :) First, you need to

Re: poor performance with Intel X520 card

2020-07-16 Thread Kristof Provost
On 16 Jul 2020, at 9:57, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:07:23 +0700 Eugene Grosbein wrote: Hello, That is mostly for the record but it looks like the intel X520 is not very good and generates a high level of interrupts. On a router / firewall with 500 Kpps in input (dropped

Re: poor performance with Intel X520 card

2020-07-16 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:07:23 +0700 Eugene Grosbein wrote: Hello, > > That is mostly for the record but it looks like the intel X520 is > > not very good and generates a high level of interrupts. > > > > On a router / firewall with 500 Kpps in input (dropped by pf) is > > enough to put the CPUs

Re: poor performance with Intel X520 card

2020-07-15 Thread Eugene Grosbein
10.07.2020 13:45, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Hello, > > That is mostly for the record but it looks like the intel X520 is not > very good and generates a high level of interrupts. > > On a router / firewall with 500 Kpps in input (dropped by pf) is enough to > put the CPUs at > 100% busy. [sk

Re: poor performance with Intel X520 card

2020-07-15 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 18:21:11 +0200 Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: Hi Olivier, > > That is mostly for the record but it looks like the intel X520 is > > not very good and generates a high level of interrupts. > > > > On a router / firewall with 500 Kpps in input (dropped by pf) is > > enough to put

Re: poor performance with Intel X520 card

2020-07-10 Thread Olivier Cochard-Labbé
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 8:45 AM Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Hello, > > That is mostly for the record but it looks like the intel X520 is not > very good and generates a high level of interrupts. > > On a router / firewall with 500 Kpps in input (dropped by pf) is enough to > put the CPUs at > 100

Re: poor performance with Intel X520 card

2020-07-10 Thread Cristian Cardoso
Hello This interface is 14.8 Mpps, but such capacity is only possible without a firewall performing filtering. The more firewall rules on your router, the less forwarding capacity the card will have, due to having to process the packet in CPU to match the rules and then forward the packet. In the

poor performance with Intel X520 card

2020-07-09 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Hello, That is mostly for the record but it looks like the intel X520 is not very good and generates a high level of interrupts. On a router / firewall with 500 Kpps in input (dropped by pf) is enough to put the CPUs at 100% busy. We use FreeBSD 11.3 on a machine with 12 CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) CP