[Lxc-users] 10GbE Interface

[Mayur Gowda]

Hello,

By without bridges do you mean other macvlan modes vepa & private? Can I
create a pipe between host & guest container using other modes in
macvlan(vepa needs a router i think & private doesnt connect host to
guest)?

Regards
Mayur

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Oleg Motienko <motienko at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Did you try to test speed without brigdes (from host machine) ?
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 14:03, Mayur Gowda <m2r0007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> Tried few combinations of disabling the netfilter calls and noticed that
>> it does seem to make a small difference of around 100Mbps, increasing the
>> thruput to around 2.8-2.9Gbps, but its still far off from the optimum range
>> for 10Gig interfaces.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Mayur
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Robert Kawecki <thewanderer at gim11.pl>wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Oleg
>
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