Re: poor TCP network performance using CX-5 cards starting from 4.16 kernel

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 12:27:26PM -0400, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Christopher Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> >
> >> Please excuse me if this is not the right place to post this (but
> >> according to the MAINTAINERS list for the ethernet Mellanox MLX5
> >> driver this should be it). I'm having issues with the latest kernel
> >> (4.18-rc4) and using Mellanox CX-5 cards. I'm trying to send TCP
> >> traffic not RDMA traffic using iperf3. I've noticed issues with
> >> performance.
> >
> > Upgrade to the latest rdma core package? There is a bug in libibverbs that
> > limits throughput that was fixed recently and Mellanox has been pushing
> > out firmware releases that finally make the NIC obey rate limitations.
> > Together this can produce a weird set of constraints on performance.
>
> I have latest Mellanox firmware for the card but I'm not sending RDMA
> traffic. libibverbs shouldn't be in play here?

It is unrelated to libibverbs and related to Saeed's netdev part.

Thanks

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