[Lxc-users] 10GbE Interface

[Robert Kawecki]

Dnia 2011-07-10, nie o godzinie 19:59 +0100, Mayur Gowda pisze:
> Hello All,
> 
> 
> As planned I got 10GbE interfaces(with linux TOE) on my server(long
> wait...!!) and got two debian containers up with following
> configuration: 
> 
> 
> >Set macvlan on the 10GbE physical interface
>        sudo ip link add link eth0 address 00:00:00:ab:00:01 macvlan0
> type macvlan mode bridge
> 
> 
> > Setup containers with macvlan 
> lxc.network.type = macvlan
>     lxc.network.macvlan.mode = bridge
>     lxc.network.link = eth0
> The containers can ping eachother but the problem is they are no way near the 10gig mark (throughput IPERF < 1Mbps). Am I missing any configuration here? my goal is to bridge the containers @ 10gig using macvlan. The veth bridging yields 2.8Gbps ,with MTU tweak, but thats the maximum I can get to. Need your expertise on pushing the rates !
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> Mayur

Hi,
I'm not able to provide any hints on macvlan, but have you tried
disabling Netfilter calls on your bridge with veth? The control files
should be in /proc/sys/net/bridge - turning some of them off might
improve performance if you haven't done so already, I think.