Tuning Recommendations - UG1523

Alveo X3522 User Guide (UG1523)

Document ID
UG1523
Release Date
2024-10-18
Revision
1.5 English

The following tables provide recommendations for tuning settings for different applications.

Recommended Throughput Tuning

The following table shows recommended tuning settings for throughput.

Table 1. Throughput Tuning Settings
Tuning Parameter How?
Interrupt moderation Leave at default (Enabled).
TCP/IP checksum offload Leave at default (Enabled).
TCP protocol tuning Leave at default.
Interrupt affinity & irqbalance service

Interrupt affinity settings are application dependent

Stop irqbalance service:

/sbin/service irqbalance stop

Reload the drivers to use the driver default interrupt affinity.

PCI Express lane configuration Ensure the adapter is in an ×8 slot (3.0 or later), and that current speed (not the supported speed) reads back as “x8 and 8GT/s”, or “x8 and 16GT/s”, or “x8 and Unknown”.
CPU Speed service (cpuspeed) Leave enabled.
Memory bandwidth Ensure memory uses all memory channels on system motherboard.
Intel QuickData (Intel chipsets only) Enable in BIOS and install driver:
modprobe ioatdma

Recommended Latency Tuning

The following table shows recommended tuning settings for latency.

Table 2. Latency Tuning Settings
Tuning Parameter How?
Interrupt moderation Disable with:
ethtool -C <interface> rx-usecs-irq 0
TCP/IP checksum offload Leave at default (Enabled).
TCP protocol tuning Leave at default, but changing does not impact latency.
Interrupt affinity & irqbalance service

Interrupt affinity settings are application dependent

Stop irqbalance service:

/sbin/service irqbalance stop

Reload the drivers to use the driver default interrupt affinity.

PCI Express lane configuration Ensure the adapter is in an ×8 slot (3.0 or later), and that current speed (not the supported speed) reads back as “x8 and 8GT/s”, or “x8 and 16GT/s”, or “x8 and Unknown”.
CPU Speed service (cpuspeed) Disable with:
/sbin/service cpuspeed stop
CPU Power service (cpupower) Disable with:
systemctl stop cpupower
systemctl disable cpupower
Tuned service Experiment disabling this with:
systemctl stop tuned
systemctl disable tuned
Memory bandwidth Ensure memory uses all memory channels on system motherboard.
Intel QuickData (Intel chipsets only) Enable in BIOS and install driver:
modprobe ioatdma

Recommended Forwarding Tuning

The following table shows recommended tuning settings for forwarding.

Table 3. Forwarding Tuning Settings
Tuning Parameter How?
TCP/IP checksum offload Leave at default (Enabled).
TCP protocol tuning Leave at default.
Interrupt affinity & irqbalance service

Interrupt affinity. Affinitize each interface to its own CPU (if possible select CPU's on the same package). Refer to Interrupt Affinity.

Stop irqbalance service:

/sbin/service irqbalance stop