Performance of Wireguard on Infiniband 40G

[Greg KH]

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 12:52:11AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > One small and unfortunate thought just occurred to me: the backporting
> > to really old kernels I'm pretty sure is way less efficient than newer
> > kernels on the RX, due to some missing core fast-path APIs in the old
> > kernels. In particular, I had to wrap the UDP layer with some nasty
> > hacks to get packets out, whereas newer kernels have an elegant API
> > for that which integrates in the right place. Just a thought... I
> > haven't actually done concrete measurements though.
> 
> Good idea, I have redone the same setup with kernel 4.9.18 from
> jessie-backports.
> 
> TL;DR: when switching from kernel 3.16 to 4.9, wireguard has a 50%
> performance gain in the most favourable case (large MTU).  Also, iperf
> seems generally faster than iperf3, most likely because iperf3 has no
> multi-threading.

4.9 is 6 months old, I'd be curious if 4.11 is any faster given the rate
of change in the network stack :)

thanks,

greg k-h