Posted by steve on 19 Jun 2018 in AIX Tuning, VIO Server Tips, AIX Tips, SRIOV and vNIC, Performance Testing
Results from my 40Gbit adapter performance testing on p8 hardware. more »
Tag: "jumbo_frames"
Posted by steve on 03 Jul 2017 in AIX Tuning, VIO Server Tips, AIX Tips, SRIOV and vNIC, Performance Testing
AIX and VIO Server testing results for network bandwidth on an E880 for the internal vSwitch and external 1Gbit and 10Gbit switches. Tests include LPAR network bandwidth for core to core, chip to chip and node to node configurations. more »
Posted by steve on 02 Jan 2017 in AIX Tuning, VIO Server Tips, AIX Tips, SRIOV and vNIC, Performance Testing
Results from my SRIOV adapter performance testing on p8 hardware. more »
Posted by steve on 21 Sep 2016 in AIX Tuning, VIO Server Tips, AIX Tips, SRIOV and vNIC, Performance Testing
AIX Virtual Ethernet Adapters have a setting called mtu_bypass - This allows the AIX networking stack to combine many smaller TCP segments in to one larger 64Kb segment for sending to the VIO Servers SEA Adapter and the SEA Adapter can send up to 64Kb segments back to the LPAR. more »