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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network slowdown due to CFS
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:21:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070926112137.GA13876@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070926104814.GM3337@deprecation.cyrius.com>


* Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:

> * Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> [2007-09-26 12:23]:
> > I noticed on the iperf website a patch which contains sched_yield().
> > http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf2.0/patch-iperf-linux-2.6.21.txt
> > 
> > Do you have that patch applied by any chance?  If so, it might be a
> > worth while to try it without it.
> 
> Yes, this patch was applied.  When I revert it, I get the same (high) 
> performance with both kernels.

great! Could you try this too:

   echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield

does it fix iperf performance too (with the yield patch applied to 
iperf)?

I think the real fix would be for iperf to use blocking network IO 
though, or maybe to use a POSIX mutex or POSIX semaphores.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-26 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-26  8:52 Network slowdown due to CFS Martin Michlmayr
2007-09-26  9:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-26  9:47   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-26 10:08     ` Martin Michlmayr
2007-09-26 10:18       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-26 10:20 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-09-26 10:23 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-09-26 10:48   ` Martin Michlmayr
2007-09-26 11:21     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-09-26 11:29       ` Martin Michlmayr
2007-09-26 12:00         ` David Schwartz
2007-09-26 13:31           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-26 15:40             ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-26 15:46             ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-27  9:30             ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-09-27  9:46               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-27 12:27                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-09-27 13:31                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-27 14:42                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-09-28  6:10                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-01  8:43                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-01 16:25                           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-01 16:49                             ` David Schwartz
2007-10-01 17:31                               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-01 18:23                                 ` David Schwartz
2007-10-02  6:06                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02  6:47                                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-03  8:02                                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-03  8:16                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03  8:56                                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-03  9:10                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03  9:50                                             ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-03 10:55                                               ` Dmitry Adamushko
2007-10-03 10:58                                                 ` Dmitry Adamushko
2007-10-03 11:20                                                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-03 11:22                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03 11:40                                                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-03 11:56                                                   ` yield Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03 12:16                                                     ` yield Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-07  7:18                                               ` Network slowdown due to CFS Ingo Molnar
2007-10-04  5:33                                             ` Casey Dahlin
2007-10-02  6:08                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02  6:26                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02  6:46                                   ` yield API Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02 11:50                                     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-10-02 15:24                                       ` Douglas McNaught
2007-10-02 21:57                                     ` Eric St-Laurent
2007-12-12 22:39                                     ` Jesper Juhl
2007-12-13  4:43                                       ` Kyle Moffett
2007-12-13 20:10                                         ` David Schwartz
2007-10-01 19:53                               ` Network slowdown due to CFS Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-01 22:17                                 ` David Schwartz
2007-10-01 22:35                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-01 22:44                                     ` David Schwartz
2007-10-01 22:55                                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-02 15:37                                         ` David Schwartz
2007-10-03  7:15                                           ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-03 11:31                               ` Helge Hafting
2007-10-04  0:31                               ` Rusty Russell
2007-10-01 16:55                             ` Chris Friesen
2007-10-01 17:09                               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-01 17:45                                 ` Chris Friesen
2007-10-01 19:09                                   ` iperf yield usage Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02  9:03                             ` Network slowdown due to CFS Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-02 13:39                               ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-02  9:26                           ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-09-27  9:49         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-27 10:54           ` Martin Michlmayr
2007-09-27 10:56             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-27 11:12               ` Martin Michlmayr
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-01 22:27 Hubert Tonneau

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