iperf3 does not reach the required speed on NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU SoC

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

The "Mellanox Technologies MT42822 BlueField-2 integrated ConnectX-6 Dx network" supports 100G, but the TCP-throughput tested by iperf3 can't reach the required bandwidth.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4
  • NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU SoC
  • Mellanox Technologies MT42822 BlueField-2 integrated ConnectX-6 Dx network controller
  • aarch64 platform

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