Intel® Ethernet 800 Series

Linux Performance Tuning Guide

ID Date Version Classification
636781 10/23/2023 Public
Document Table of Contents

Revision History

Revision Date Comments
1.2 August 18, 2023

Updates include the following:

  • Added Section 1.1, "Terminology".
  • ​​Added Section 1.2, “Reference Documents”.
  • ​​Updated Section 2.8, “Ensure DDP Package is Loading Properly”.
  • ​​Updated Section 3.2.1, “iperf2”.
  • ​​Updated Section 3.2.2, “iperf3”.
  • ​​Updated Section 3.2.3, “netperf”.
  • ​​Added Section 3.2.4, “Adapter Bonding”.
  • ​​Added Section 4.4, “Intel® svr-info Tool”.
  • ​​Added Section 4.5, “IOMMU in Virtualized Environments”.
  • ​​Added Section 4.6, “Resource Limitations Using E810 in 8x10G Mode”.
  • ​​Updated Section 5.1, “IRQ Affinity”.
  • ​​Updated Section 5.2, “Tx/Rx Queues”.
  • ​​Updated Section 5.7, “Flow Control”.
  • ​​Added Section 5.9, “Accelerated Receive Flow Steering (aRFS)”.
  • ​​Updated Section 7.0, “Operating System Tuning”.
1.1 January 6, 2023

Updates include the following:

  • ​​Updated Section 5.1, “IRQ Affinity”.
  • ​​Added Section 5.3, “Transmit and Receive Queue Alignment”.
  • ​​Added Section 5.4, “Transmit Balancing”.
  • ​​Renamed Section 6.2, to "Platform Power Management".
  • ​​Added Section 6.4, “Additional Power Management Guidance”.
  • ​​Updated Section 8.1, “IP Forwarding”.
  • ​​Updated Section 8.2, “Low Latency”.
  • ​​Updated Section 8.3.1, “DPDK”.
1.0 March 18, 2021 Initial public release.