Re: [Xen-users] 10Gbit ethernet NIC gives slow throughput

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:36:40PM +0100, fabi.a169@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to use a server having myricom 10gbit ethernet interfaces
> (driver myri10ge) for Xen. But between dom0s (no domU running), I get only a
> throughput of about 2.3Gbit/s (I use Xen 3.2 with the 2.6.18 kernel and
> debian in dom0), whether xend is running or not.  However, on linux kernel
> with the same version but without xen patch, I get more than 6Gbit/s.
> Clearly, with Xen, the CPU is not the bottleneck, beeing used at much less
> than 100%.
> 
> Does anybody have experiences with Xen and 10Gbit ethernet ?
> 

With Xen, are you using bridged networking? 

The default network configuration in Xen creates virtual ethernet interface 
called
'eth0', which is bridged to the real NIC (which is renamed to peth0).

So, when making comparisons, make sure you're using the actual physical 
interface. 

Dunno if there's something to optimize in the bridge-setup.. have you done
all the normal optimizations? txqueuelen for all interfaces (including vif
interfaces), tcp window sizes etc.

-- Pasi

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