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sala · 2009-05-09 14:11:34

I was just testing jumbo frames under Gentoo hdd-boot (singe disk, no raid, no jbod) and my discover was kind of interesting, so I let you guys also know about it.

Code:

egiga0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:cb:82:93:3b
          inet addr:192.168.9.11  Bcast:192.168.9.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:9004  Metric:1
          RX packets:200853 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:239335 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:512
          RX bytes:295759987 (282.0 MiB)  TX bytes:1557784200 (1.4 GiB)
          Interrupt:21

As you can see I was using 9K jumbo frames. As a switch I was using cheap Belkin F5D8235-4 Gbit router. At workstation side I got 3Com 3C2000-T nic which is supporting Jumbo packet size of 9014 bytes.

Code:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping -f -l 8972 192.168.9.11

Pinging 192.168.9.11 with 8972 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.9.11: bytes=8972 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.9.11: bytes=8972 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.9.11: bytes=8972 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.9.11:
    Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 3, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
Control-C

Here we see that largest frame that was working in my setup is 8972 bytes.

Code:

Copied (09.05.2009 13:23:11): ftp://192.168.9.11/1000A/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB -> D:\VTS_02_1.VOB 1 073 739 776 bytes, 47796.9 kbytes/s

I am not even sure that my workstation hard drive can write faster than 47796kb/s

Code:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
proftpd   1849  0.0  1.1   7384  1484 ?        Ss   13:22   0:00 proftpd: (accepting connections)
1001      1852 20.6  1.8   7840  2368 ?        S    13:22   2:51  \_ proftpd: p2p - 192.168.9.200: RETR VTS_02_1.VOB

Here is my CPU load. I was using jfs as a filesystem, so this might be helping here.

Code:

Copied (09.05.2009 13:42:19): D:\VTS_02_1.VOB -> ftp://192.168.9.11/1000B/_Incoming/VTS_02_1.VOB 1 073 739 776 bytes, 9396.5 kbytes/s

My upload test was less impressing. In testing, speed did jump up and down so I do suspect that this was some jumbo frame problem. So I did decrease it to 4K and after that my upload speed was more stable.

Code:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
proftpd   1932  0.0  1.1   7384  1484 ?        Ss   13:40   0:00 proftpd: (accepting connections)
1001      1936 84.6  1.8   7840  2388 ?        R    13:40   1:06  \_ proftpd: p2p - 192.168.9.200: STOR VTS_02_1.VOB

As you can see uploading causes pretty high load.

Smallnetbuilder review did show that 9K jumbo frames should be possible and upload (write) speed can be little higher comparing to my tests.
If someone has some idea how to get 9K frames working correctly in both ways then let me know

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Mijzelf · 2009-09-21 14:00:42

Did you use another kernel than the firmware one? I did some copy measurements between two internal disks, (link), and could not get more than 15.6 MB/sec over the SATA bus.

sala · 2009-09-21 14:21:54

I did use use zyxel kernel with hddboot setup ( http://dns323.kood.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4849 ).

Data read from disk(s) and write to network is less resource demanding and therefore a lot of faster. Especially when disks are new and files 0% fragmented.
As you can see from my tests, that upload speed (data read from network and disk write) over 1gbit using jumbo frames I did get only 9396.5 kbytes/s and that because of data writing to disk is more resource demanding.
I think I have used mc to copy some data over disks and I did probably get 10-20Mb/s. But I can retest this when I have some time.

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