Impact of random.harvest.mask and Intel 82599EB queue number on forwarding performance
- IBM System x3550 M3 with quad cores (Intel Xeon L5630 2.13GHz, hyper-threading disabled)
- Dual port Intel 82599EB 10-Gigabit and OPT SFP (SFP-10G-LR)
- FreeBSD 11-routing.r287531
- 2000 flows of smallest UDP packets
- Traffic load at 14.48Mpps (10Gigabit line-rate)
x pps.1
+ pps.2
* pps.3
% pps.4
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|x + ** % |
|x ++ *** %% % %|
|A |
| A| |
| |A| |
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N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 5 773301 782449 777039 777463.2 4119.0835
+ 5 1566167 1589318 1578171 1578723.2 8405.6077
Difference at 95.0% confidence
801260 +/- 9653.36
103.061% +/- 1.24165%
(Student's t, pooled s = 6618.95)
* 5 1895563 1965467 1944766 1938964.4 27013.927
Difference at 95.0% confidence
1.1615e+06 +/- 28180.8
149.396% +/- 3.62471%
(Student's t, pooled s = 19322.5)
% 5 2354699 3187572 2380275 2675711 419471.22
Difference at 95.0% confidence
1.89825e+06 +/- 432611
244.159% +/- 55.6439%
(Student's t, pooled s = 296625)