On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 12:41:34PM +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > 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? > I am using a batch size of 256. -- ~ ry