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diff --git a/trex_book.asciidoc b/trex_book.asciidoc index 04fcd718..54c23bf5 100755 --- a/trex_book.asciidoc +++ b/trex_book.asciidoc @@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ TRex curretly works on x86 architecture and can operates well on Cisco UCS hardw * One can verify NUMA and NIC topology with following command: lstopo (yum install hwloc) * NUMAs-CPUs relation is determined with following command: lscpu * See real example of NUMA usage xref:numa-example[here] +* Using Intel XL710 with Fedora 18 requires updating Kernel. ===================================== .Sample order for UCSC-C220-M3S with 4x10Gb ports @@ -214,7 +215,7 @@ The following is an example of 4x10Gb/sec TRex with I350 management port and fou [source,bash] ---- -$[root@trex]lspci | grep Network +$[root@trex]lspci | grep Ethernet 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) #<1> 01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) #<2> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) #<3> @@ -1126,7 +1127,7 @@ Then, we moved the cards to different NUMAs: image:images/different_numa.png[title="2_NICSs_different_NUMAs"] *+* -We needed to add configuration to the /etc/trex_cfg.yaml: +We added configuration to the /etc/trex_cfg.yaml: [source,python] platform : @@ -1138,7 +1139,7 @@ We needed to add configuration to the /etc/trex_cfg.yaml: - socket : 1 threads : [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15] -This gave best results, and CPU utilization with c=7 at *\~98 Gb/s* TX BW became *~21%*! (40% with c=4) +This gave best results: with *\~98 Gb/s* TX BW and c=7, CPU utilization became *~21%*! (40% with c=4) === Command line options anchor:cml-line[] |