The CPU to TXQ binding behavior of ixgbe vs. igb NIC driver are
somehow different. Normally I setup NIC IRQ-to-CPU bindings 1-to-1,
with script set_irq_affinity [1].
For forcing use of a specific HW TXQ, I normally force the CPU binding
of the process, either with "taskset" or with "netperf -T lcpu,rcpu".
This works fine with driver ixgbe, but not with driver igb. That is
with igb, the program forced to specific CPU, can still use another
TXQ. What am I missing?
I'm monitoring this with both:
1) watch -d sudo tc -s -d q ls dev ethXX
2) https://github.com/ffainelli/bqlmon
[1] https://github.com/netoptimizer/network-testing/blob/master/bin/set_irq_affinity
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Best regards,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat
Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer