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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] loopback: calls netif_receive_skb() instead of netif_rx()
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:15:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080303211535.03e3c81e@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080303.205558.114610030.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:55:58 -0800 (PST)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
> Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:26:17 +0100
> 
> > You are absolutly right. We should guard against recursion, using a new field 
> > in "pcpu_lstats" (cheap access in a hot cache line as we have to update stats 
> > anyway)
>  ...
> > [PATCH] loopback: calls netif_receive_skb() instead of netif_rx()
> 
> I'm willing to seriously entertain this change and stick it
> into net-2.6.26 if you will perform a reasonable deep stack
> test.
> 
> For example, create an XFS filesystem, and mount it NFS over
> loopback.  Then stress it like crazy.
> 
> See if this generates stack overflows or weird crashes.
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Also (unrealistic) benchmarks often test loopback performance, so you
should also check for performance gains/losses in things like
netbench, netperf, tbench, etc.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-04  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-21 18:51 [RFC,PATCH] loopback: calls netif_receive_skb() instead of netif_rx() Eric Dumazet
2008-02-21 20:14 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-02-21 23:19   ` Eric Dumazet
2008-02-22 10:19     ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-02-27  2:21 ` David Miller
2008-02-27  7:20   ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-27  7:23     ` David Miller
2008-02-27  7:34       ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-01 10:26   ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-04  4:55     ` David Miller
2008-03-04  5:15       ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-03-04  6:27       ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-23 10:29     ` David Miller
2008-03-23 18:48       ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-23 19:15         ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-29  1:36         ` David Miller
2008-03-29  8:18           ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-29 23:54             ` David Miller
2008-03-31  6:38               ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-31  9:48         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-31 10:01           ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-31 10:12             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-01  9:19               ` Eric Dumazet
2008-04-03 14:06                 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-03 16:19                   ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-31 10:08           ` David Miller
2008-03-31 10:44             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-31 11:02               ` David Miller
2008-03-31 11:36                 ` poor network loopback performance and scalability (was: Re: [RFC,PATCH] loopback: calls netif_receive_skb() instead of netif_rx()) Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21  3:24                   ` Herbert Xu
2008-04-21  3:38                     ` poor network loopback performance and scalability David Miller
2008-04-21  8:11                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21  8:16                         ` David Miller
2008-04-21 10:19                           ` Herbert Xu
2008-04-21 10:22                             ` David Miller

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