Poor SCTP Performance with small packets
Issue
When transmitting SCTP packets a noticeable throughput drop is noticed when packets sent are very small (< 50 octets)
TCP SCTP
Packetlen
10000 117 MB/s 106 MB/s
1000 117 MB/s 87 MB/s
300 117 MB/s 72 MB/s
200 117 MB/s 65 MB/s
150 117 MB/s 47 MB/s
120 117 MB/s 24 MB/s
100 117 MB/s 19 MB/s
80 117 MB/s 16 MB/s
50 92 MB/s 10 MB/s
20 37 MB/s 20 KB/s
10 19 MB/s 10 KB/s
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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