Update Network Adapter Windows 10
Latrina Cobbett
Network-intensive applications require high-performance network adapters. This section explores some considerations for choosing network adapters, as well as how to configure different network adapter settings to achieve the best network performance.
The network stack in Microsoft products can offload one or more tasks to a network adapter if you select a network adapter that has the appropriate offload capabilities. The following table provides a brief overview of different offload capabilities that are available in Windows Server 2016.
Some servers are configured with multiple logical processors that share hardware resources (such as a physical core) and which are treated as Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) peers. Intel Hyper-Threading Technology is an example. RSS directs network processing to up to one logical processor per core. For example, on a server with Intel Hyper-Threading, 4 cores, and 8 logical processors, RSS uses no more than 4 logical processors for network processing.
RSS also load balances UDP unicast and multicast traffic, and it routes related flows (which are determined by hashing the source and destination addresses) to the same logical processor, preserving the order of related arrivals. This helps improve scalability and performance for receive-intensive scenarios for servers that have fewer network adapters than they do eligible logical processors.
For a detailed command reference for each cmdlet, including syntax and parameters, you can click the following links. In addition, you can pass the cmdlet name to Get-Help at the Windows PowerShell prompt for details on each command.
Closest. Logical processor numbers that are near the network adapter's base RSS processor are preferred. With this profile, the operating system might rebalance logical processors dynamically based on load.
ClosestStatic. Logical processor numbers near the network adapter's base RSS processor are preferred. With this profile, the operating system does not rebalance logical processors dynamically based on load.
NUMA. Logical processor numbers are generally selected on different NUMA nodes to distribute the load. With this profile, the operating system might rebalance logical processors dynamically based on load.
NUMAStatic. This is the default profile. Logical processor numbers are generally selected on different NUMA nodes to distribute the load. With this profile, the operating system will not rebalance logical processors dynamically based on load.
* MaxProcessors: Sets the maximum number of RSS processors to be used. This ensures that application traffic is bound to a maximum number of processors on a given interface. Example syntax:
* MaxProcessorGroup: Sets the Max processor group of a NUMA node. This impacts the processor array that is used by RSS. Setting this would restrict a maximum processor group so that load balancing is aligned within a k-group. Example syntax:
* BaseProcessorNumber: Sets the base processor number of a NUMA node. This impacts the processor array that is used by RSS. This allows partitioning processors across network adapters. This is the first logical processor in the range of RSS processors that is assigned to each adapter. Example syntax:
* NumberofReceiveQueues: If your logical processors seem to be underutilized for receive traffic (for example, as viewed in Task Manager), you can try increasing the number of RSS queues from the default of 2 to the maximum that is supported by your network adapter. Your network adapter may have options to change the number of RSS queues as part of the driver. Example syntax:
Tuning RSS requires understanding the configuration and the load-balancing logic. To verify that the RSS settings have taken effect, you can review the output when you run the Get-NetAdapterRss Windows PowerShell cmdlet. Following is example output of this cmdlet.
In addition to echoing parameters that were set, the key aspect of the output is the indirection table output. The indirection table displays the hash table buckets that are used to distribute incoming traffic. In this example, the n:c notation designates the Numa K-Group:CPU index pair that is used to direct incoming traffic. We see exactly 2 unique entries (0:0 and 0:4), which represent k-group 0/cpu0 and k-group 0/cpu 4, respectively.
RSS can be enabled on a network adapter that is teamed with another network interface card using NIC Teaming. In this scenario, only the underlying physical network adapter can be configured to use RSS. A user cannot set RSS cmdlets on the teamed network adapter.
Receive Segment Coalescing (RSC) helps performance by reducing the number of IP headers that are processed for a given amount of received data. It should be used to help scale the performance of received data by grouping (or coalescing) the smaller packets into larger units.
This approach can affect latency with benefits mostly seen in throughput gains. RSC is recommended to increase throughput for received heavy workloads. Consider deploying network adapters that support RSC.
On these network adapters, ensure that RSC is on (this is the default setting), unless you have specific workloads (for example, low latency, low throughput networking) that show benefit from RSC being off.
The Get cmdlet shows whether RSC is enabled in the interface and whether TCP enables RSC to be in an operational state. The failure reason provides details about the failure to enable RSC on that interface.
In the previous scenario, IPv4 RSC is supported and operational in the interface. To understand diagnostic failures, one can see the coalesced bytes or exceptions caused. This provides an indication of the coalescing issues.
RSC is only supported in the physical host when the host network adapter is not bound to the Hyper-V Virtual Switch. RSC is disabled by the operating system when the host is bound to the Hyper-V Virtual Switch. In addition, virtual machines do not get the benefit of RSC because virtual network adapters do not support RSC.
RSC can be enabled for a virtual machine when Single Root Input/Output Virtualization (SR-IOV) is enabled. In this case, virtual functions support RSC capability; hence, virtual machines also receive the benefit of RSC.
A few network adapters actively manage their resources to achieve optimum performance. Several network adapters allow you to manually configure resources by using the Advanced Networking tab for the adapter. For such adapters, you can set the values of a number of parameters, including the number of receive buffers and send buffers.
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