Multicore support on 2.2

[cyruspy]

I'm running a synthetic test on a brand new 2.2.5 installation using iperf and I see a maximum throughput of around 2.5Gbps. The VM has 2 x 1 core CPU and only one is being beaten up during the test. I understood that the 2.2 branch should be supporting the use of more than one core, am I missing anything regarding configuration to enable this?.

last pid: 62582;  load averages:  0.50,  0.26,  0.24                                                                                up 0+00:22:56  20:08:37
59 processes:  2 running, 56 sleeping, 1 waiting
CPU 0:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.4% system,  7.5% interrupt, 92.2% idle
CPU 1:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system, 85.9% interrupt, 14.1% idle
Mem: 68M Active, 40M Inact, 79M Wired, 25M Buf, 1773M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE  C  TIME    WCPU COMMAND
  11 root        2 155 ki31    0K    32K RUN    1  39:24 110.94% idle
  12 root      19 -72    -    0K  304K WAIT    1  6:14  92.97% intr

The tests consists in running 2 VMs on a subnet, connecting to other 2 VMs on a different subnet. The pfsense VM has VLAN tagging on a single 10GbE interface.

Regards,

[cmb]

The packet filter will, yes, but there are other factors. What hypervisor and what type of NICs in the VM?

[cyruspy]

OK, moved the traffic of one client to another NIC and reached 3.5Gbps, still far from perfect. This is running on ESXi 6 and using vmxnet3 NICs. I'm not maxing out the processors yet

[cyruspy]

@cmb:

The packet filter will, yes, but there are other factors. What hypervisor and what type of NICs in the VM?

Any advice or pointers?

[cmb]

Don't expect to achieve really high performance in a VM. If you passthrough the NICs to the VM to remove that layer of abstraction, that'll likely help to some extent.