Raz wrote:

Hello
I have been testing 10G ethernet cards , intel ixgbe, chelsio, tehuti
and melanox . All are dual port cards.
I have used pktgen to test it. A single cpu is mapped over a single
interface (no neeed for MQ , which is quite bad anyway).
Results:
Intel gives: 13Gbps , 6.5 from each port.
The rest give ~10 Gbps .
Cards were tested on PCI-E x8 slot, on a supermicro x7DBI and
supermicro 1025W-UR.

Am i to expect ~20Gbps from each card ?

PCI Express provides 2.5 Gbps per lane (can be 5 Gbps in PCIe 2.0 but
that's quite new).  So an x8 slot is limited to 20 Gbps including all
the PCIe protocol overhead, which can be substantial.  You will not
get 20 Gbps out of dual-port cards without doubling the width or lane
speed.

Ben.

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