On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:18:36 +0000 Ryan Goodfellow <rgoodfel@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The numbers that I have been able to achive with this code are the following. MTU > is 1500 in all cases. > > mlx5: pps ~ 2.4 Mpps, 29 Gbps (driver mode, zero-copy) > i40e: pps ~ 700 Kpps, 8 Gbps (skb mode, copy) > virtio: pps ~ 200 Kpps, 2.4 Gbps (skb mode, copy, all qemu/kvm VMs) > > Are these numbers in the ballpark of what's expected? I would say they are too slow / low. Have you remembered to do bulking? -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer