Bug 2139569

Summary: [ice] and [mlx5_core] ovs dpdk bonding performance test get very lower results than i40e and ixgbe driver
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath Reporter: Hekai Wang <hewang>
Component: openvswitchAssignee: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli>
openvswitch sub component: ovs-dpdk QA Contact: Hekai Wang <hewang>
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Description Hekai Wang 2022-11-03 02:03:00 UTC
Description of problem:
[ice] and [mlx5_core] ovs dpdk bonding performance test get very lower results than i40e and ixgbe driver

With same topo and openvswitch version find that ice and mlx5_core driver get very lower performance results than ixgbe and i40e

openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-124.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
RHEL-8.6.0-updates-20221026.2 ==> kernel-4.18.0-372.32.1.el8_6

openvswitch2.16-2.16.0-103.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
RHEL-8.4.0-updates-20211026.0 with kernel 4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.x86_64

openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-49.el9fdp.x86_64.rpm-ON-RHEL-Linux9.0
RHEL-9.0.0-updates-20221027.1 ==> kernel-5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0

Here are some jobs
For openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-124.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm on RHEL-8.6.0-updates-20221026.2
https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/7179753
https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/7179754
https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/7179755
https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/7179756
https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/7179757


For openvswitch2.16-2.16.0-103.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm on 
RHEL-8.4.0-updates-20211026.0 with kernel 4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.x86_64

https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/7179748
https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/7179750
https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/7179751
https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/7183975


For openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-49.el9fdp.x86_64.rpm-ON-RHEL-Linux9.0
RHEL-9.0.0-updates-20221027.1 ==> kernel-5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0

https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/7179759
https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/7179760
https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/7179761
https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/7179762
https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/7179763








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