[dpdk-dev] IXGBE RX packet loss with 5+ cores

[Saber Rezvani]

According to the problem to this thread -->

http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2015-October/024966.html


  Venkatesan, Venky mentioned the following reason:

To add a little more detail - this ends up being both a bandwidth and a
transaction bottleneck. Not only do you add an increased transaction
count, you also add a huge amount of bandwidth overhead (each 16 byte
descriptor is preceded by a PCI-E TLP which is about the same size). So
what ends up happening in the case where the incoming packets are
bifurcated to different queues (1 per queue) is that you have 2x the
number of transactions (1 for the packet and one for the descriptor) and
then we essentially double the bandwidth used because you now have the
TLP overhead per descriptor write.


But I couldn't figure out why we have bandwidth and transaction bottleneck.


Can anyone help me?


Best regards,

Saber