[ovs-discuss] How to set the best setting to test packet processing performance?

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Jul 16 20:08:02 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:22:29AM -0700, Hao Wu wrote:
>    Yes, you are right. I find the bottleneck is tcprelay which only
> generates packets at 750Kpps. But even when I add more hosts to send
> packets in parallel, I can't get a higher generation rate. E.g., if I use
> only one host, tcpreplay sends packets at 300Kpps, while if I use 6 hosts,
> each tcpreplay sends packets at around 130Kpps and the total rate is still
> 750Kpps. How do you get a higher generation rate in your experiment? Thanks.

I think we used netperf.  I've never use tcpreplay so I don't have any
hints.



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