From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>,
Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: allocate skbs on local node
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:27:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101014122752.21dd4eaf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin8FczYpPvi79w7iuKOZz3uZtYFfTPitAgQFxzD@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:31:01 -0700
Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> wrote:
> > This is all conspicuously hand-wavy and unquantified. __(IOW: prove it!)
> >
> > The mooted effects should be tested for on both slab and slub, I
> > suggest. __They're pretty different beasts.
> > --
>
> Some results running netper TCP_RR test with 200 instances, 1 byte
> request and response on 16 core AMD using bnx2x with one 16 queues,
> one for each CPU.
>
> SLAB
>
> Without patch 553570 tps at 86% CPU
> With patch 791883 tps at 93% CPU
>
> SLUB
>
> Without patch 704879 tps at 95% CPU
> With patch 775278 tps at 92% CPU
>
> I believe both show good benfits with patch, and it actually looks
> like the impact is more pronounced for SLAB. I would also note, that
> we have actually already internally patched __netdev_alloc_skb to do
> local node allocation which we have been running in production for
> quite some time.
>
Yes, that's a solid gain.
Can we think of any hardware configuration for which the change would
be harmful? Something with really expensive cross-node DMA maybe?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-14 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-11 23:03 [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: dont use netdev_alloc_skb() Eric Dumazet
2010-10-11 23:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12 5:03 ` Tom Herbert
2010-10-12 5:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12 9:12 ` Vladislav Zolotarov
2010-10-14 17:39 ` David Miller
2010-10-14 18:17 ` Eilon Greenstein
2010-10-14 18:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-14 18:25 ` David Miller
2010-10-14 18:17 ` Tom Herbert
2010-10-12 5:05 ` [PATCH net-next] net: allocate skbs on local node Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12 5:35 ` Tom Herbert
2010-10-12 6:03 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-12 6:58 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12 7:24 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-12 7:49 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12 7:58 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-12 11:08 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-12 12:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-12 19:43 ` David Rientjes
2010-10-13 6:17 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-13 6:31 ` David Rientjes
2010-10-13 6:36 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-13 16:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-13 20:48 ` David Rientjes
2010-10-13 21:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-13 22:41 ` David Rientjes
2010-10-14 6:22 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-14 7:23 ` David Rientjes
2010-10-15 14:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-14 15:31 ` Tom Herbert
2010-10-14 16:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-15 16:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-14 19:27 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-10-14 19:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-16 18:54 ` David Miller
2010-10-12 16:07 ` [BUG net-next] bnx2x: all traffic comes to RX queue 0 Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12 16:20 ` Dmitry Kravkov
2010-10-12 18:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12 18:18 ` Vladislav Zolotarov
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