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Abstract
AIX latest network adapters has an attribute flip_n_run. The value of the attribute shall be set based on the workload to get maximum performance.
This article describes more details on the attribute.
Content
When a network packet is received through a network adapter, it is sent to driver and hence the upper layers.
In TCP, if any send happens as part of processing the received packet, the send shall happen through the same
thread context through which the packet is received. Such cases may delay the processing of further packets received
waiting in the Work Queue of the adapter. This may cause some performance impact on the network. This is applicable
for high speed adapters like 100G.
To avoid this users shall enable the attribute flip_n_run on the adapter to yes, which causes the packets sent to be queued
in a software queue of the driver, and sent offlevel through a timer.
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Modified date:
16 September 2019
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