ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:27:41AM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote:

> hi,
> 	I have a host (Dell R730) with both cards, connected to an HP8200 switch at 10Gb.
> 	when writing to the same storage (netapp) this is what I get:
> 		ix0:		~130MGB/s
> 		mlxen0	~330MGB/s
> 	this is via nfs/tcpv3
> 
> 	I can get similar (bad) performance with the mellanox if I increase the file size
> 	to 512MGB.

Look like mellanox have internal beffer for caching and do ACK acclerating.

> 	so at face value, it seems the mlxen does a better use of resources than the intel.
> 	Any ideas how to improve ix/intel's performance?

Are you sure about netapp performance?