cloudxtreme/netbenches

Network forwarding performance benchmark results

netbenches

FreeBSD network forwarding performance benchmark results

This repository includes bench scripts, bench configuration files, raw results and gnuplot graphs on few setups.

Hardware benched are:

• HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 (8 cores Intel Xeon E5-2650 @ 2.60GHz) and 10-Gigabit Chelsio T540-CR
• IBM System x3550 M3 (4 cores Intel Xeon L5630 2.13GHz, hyper-threading disabled) and dual port Intel 82599EB 10-Gigabit
• Netgate RCC-VE 4860 (4 cores Intel Atom C2558E) and quad port Intel i350 (the 2 Intel i211 are not benched)
• PC Engines APU (2 cores AMD G-T40E 1 GHz) and 3 Realtek RTL8111E Gigabit NIC

Some results:

• Impact of enabling ipfw or pf:
  • [Impact of enabling ipfw or pf on fastforwarding performance with 8 cores Xeon E5-2650] (Xeon_E5-2650-8Cores-Chelsio_T540-CR/fastforwarding-pf-ipfw/results/fbsd11-routing.r287531/README.md)
  • [One year (2015) of fastforwarding performance evolution with with 8 cores Xeon E5-2650] (Xeon_E5-2650-8Cores-Chelsio_T540-CR/fastforwarding-pf-ipfw/results/fbsd11-head.2015/README.md)
  • [Impact of enabling ipfw or pf on fastforwarding performance with 4 cores Xeon L5630] (Xeon_L5630-4Cores-Intel_82599EB/fastforwarding-pf-ipfw/results/fbsd11-routing.r287531/README.md)
  • [Impact of enabling ipfw or pf on fastforwarding performance with 4 cores Atom C2558E] (Atom_C2558_4Cores-Intel_i350/fastforwarding-pf-ipfw/results/fbsd11-routing.r287531/README.md)
  • [Impact of enabling ipfw or pf on fastforwarding performance with 2 cores AMD G-T40E] (AMD_G-T40E_2Cores_RTL8111E/fastforwarding-pf-ipfw/results/fbsd11-routing.r287531/README.md)
  • [One year (2015) of fastforwarding performance evolution with 4 cores Atom C2558E] (Atom_C2558_4Cores-Intel_i350/fastforwarding-pf-ipfw/results/fbsd11-head.2015/README.md)
• Impact of number of static routes:
  • [Impact of number of static routes on forwarding performance with 4 cores Xeon L5630] (Xeon_L5630-4Cores-Intel_82599EB/route-contention/results/fbsd10.2/README.md)
• Chelsio NIC T540-CR tuning:
  • [Impact of Chelsio T540-CR queue number (1 queue per core) on forwarding performance with 8 cores Xeon E5-2650] (Xeon_E5-2650-8Cores-Chelsio_T540-CR/nXxq10g/results/fbsd11-routing.r287531/README.md)
  • [Impact of random.harvest.mask and Chelsio T540-CR queue number (1 queue per core) on forwarding performance with 8 cores Xeon E5-2650] (Xeon_E5-2650-8Cores-Chelsio_T540-CR/nXxq10g.random.harvest.mask.351/results/fbsd11-routing.r287531/README.md)
  • [Impact of disabling cxgbe.toecaps_allowed on forwarding performance with 8 cores Xeon E5-2650] (Xeon_E5-2650-8Cores-Chelsio_T540-CR/cxgbe.toecaps_allowed/results/fbsd11-routing.r287531/README.md)
• Intel 82599EB NIC tuning:
  • [Impact of Intel 82599EB queue number (1 queue per core) on forwarding performance with 4 cores Xeon L5630] (Xeon_L5630-4Cores-Intel_82599EB/ix.num_queues/results/fbsd11-routing.r287531/README.md)
  • [Impact of random.harvest.mask and Intel 82599EB queue number (1 queue per core) on forwarding performance with 4 cores Xeon L5630] (Xeon_L5630-4Cores-Intel_82599EB/ix.num_queues.random.harvest.mask.351/results/fbsd11-routing.r287531/README.md)
  • [Impact of Intel 82599EB AIM on forwarding performance with 4 cores Xeon L5630] (Xeon_L5630-4Cores-Intel_82599EB/ix.enable_aim/results/fbsd10.2/README.md)
  • [Impact of Intel 82599EB Rx|Tx process limit on forwarding performance with 4 cores Xeon L5630] (Xeon_L5630-4Cores-Intel_82599EB/Xx_process_limit/results/fbsd10.2/README.md)
  • [Impact of Intel 82599EB descriptors per queue on forwarding performance with 4 cores Xeon L5630] (Xeon_L5630-4Cores-Intel_82599EB/ix.Xxd/results/fbsd10.2/README.md)
• Intel i350 tuning:
  • [Impact of Intel i350 queue number (1 queue per core) on forwarding performance with 4 cores Atom C2558E] (Atom_C2558_4Cores-Intel_i350/igb.num_queues/results/fbsd11-routing.r287531/README.md)

Synthesis:

• ![Impact of enabling ipfw/pf on fastforwarding performance on FreeBSD 10.2 with differents hardware] (synthesis/hardware.png)