From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
To: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@ee.oulu.fi>
Cc: lm@bitmover.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
wscott@bitmover.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tcp bw in 2.6
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 14:23:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071003212358.GF6183@bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071003211321.GA13583@ee.oulu.fi>
> A few notes to the discussion. I've seen one e1000 "bug" that ended up being
> a crappy AMD pre-opteron SMP chipset with a totally useless PCI bus
> implementation, which limited performance quite a bit-totally depending on
> what you plugged in and in which slot. 10e milk-and-bread-store
> 32/33 gige nics actually were better than server-class e1000's
> in those, but weren't that great either.
That could well be my problem, this is a dual processor (not core) athlon
(not opteron) tyan motherboard if I recall correctly.
> Check your interrupt rates for the interface. You shouldn't be getting
> anywhere near 1 interrupt/packet. If you are, something is badly wrong :).
The acks (because I'm sending) are about 1.5 packets/interrupt.
When this box is receiving it's moving about 3x ass much data
and has a _lower_ (absolute, not per packet) interrupt load.
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com
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2007-10-02 0:59 ` tcp bw in 2.6 Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 2:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-02 2:20 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 3:50 ` David Miller
2007-10-02 4:23 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 15:06 ` John Heffner
2007-10-02 17:14 ` Rick Jones
2007-10-02 17:20 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 18:01 ` Rick Jones
2007-10-02 18:40 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 19:47 ` Rick Jones
2007-10-02 21:32 ` David Miller
2007-10-03 7:19 ` Bill Fink
2007-10-02 10:52 ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-02 15:09 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 15:41 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 16:25 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 16:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-02 16:49 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 17:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-15 12:40 ` Daniel Schaffrath
2007-10-15 15:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-02 16:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-02 16:48 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 21:16 ` David Miller
2007-10-02 21:26 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 21:47 ` David Miller
2007-10-02 22:17 ` Rick Jones
2007-10-02 22:32 ` David Miller
2007-10-02 22:36 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 22:59 ` Rick Jones
2007-10-03 8:02 ` David Miller
2007-10-02 16:48 ` Ben Greear
2007-10-02 17:11 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 17:18 ` Ben Greear
2007-10-02 17:21 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 17:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-02 18:35 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 18:29 ` John Heffner
2007-10-02 19:07 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 19:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-02 20:31 ` David Miller
2007-10-02 19:33 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 19:53 ` John Heffner
2007-10-02 20:14 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-02 20:40 ` Rick Jones
2007-10-02 20:42 ` Wayne Scott
2007-10-02 21:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-02 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-02 19:53 ` Rick Jones
2007-10-02 20:33 ` David Miller
2007-10-02 20:44 ` Roland Dreier
2007-10-02 21:21 ` Larry McVoy
2007-10-03 21:13 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2007-10-03 21:23 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2007-10-03 21:50 ` Pekka Pietikainen
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