In review process, reviewer need to check bw_tcp value to see the real transfer rate. If the transfer rate is much lower than the naming speed, we need to double check with vendor. In cert#828100, v7 report the transfer rate for QDR device is about 4MBps: TCP latency using 10.0.0.10: 0.0940 microseconds testing bandwidth to 10.0.0.10... 0.065536 408.99 MB/sec And vendor reports when he run tests manually as following steps, return value of bw_tcp can reach 2.1GBps. And iperf return value is 27 MBit/sec. [root@SA2260-X9DR3-LN4F ~]# bw_tcp -m 65520 -P 8 10.0.0.10 0.065520 2166.37 MB/sec For detail please refer to https://hardware.redhat.com/show.cgi?id=828100#c45 steps is belowing, for detail please refer to https://hardware.redhat.com/show.cgi?id=828100#c47: - set CONNECTED_MODE=yes and MTU=65520 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ib0 (for both server and test system) - set the governor to performance in /etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed - bound the process qib_cq to a specific CPU core with 'taskset -pc 3 $(pidof qib_cq)' on both server and client Can network test be improved to reflect max real value?