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From: Rick Jones <raj@cup.hp.com>
To: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu>,
	Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@oss.sgi.com" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to  dowith ECN)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:10:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A77661C.5D7FD4C@cup.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0101301944181.3017-100000@shell.cyberus.ca>

> ** I reported that there was also an oddity in throughput values,
> unfortunately since no one (other than me) seems to have access
> to a gige cards in the ZC list, nobody can confirm or disprove
> what i posted. Here again as a reminder:
> 
> Kernel     |  tput  | sender-CPU | receiver-CPU |
> -------------------------------------------------
> 2.4.0-pre3 | 99MB/s |   87%      |  23%         |
> NSF        |        |            |              |
> -------------------------------------------------
> 2.4.0-pre3 | 86MB/s |   100%     |  17%         |
> SF         |        |            |              |
> -------------------------------------------------
> 2.4.0-pre3 | 66.2   |   60%      |  11%         |
> +ZC        | MB/s   |            |              |
> -------------------------------------------------
> 2.4.0-pre3 | 68     |   8%       |  8%          |
> +ZC  SF    | MB/s   |            |              |
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> Just ignore the CPU readings, focus on throughput. And could someone plese
> post results?

In the spirit of the socratic method :)

Is your gige card based on Alteon?

How does ZC/SG change the nature of the packets presented to the NIC?

How well does the NIC do with that changed nature?

rick jones

sometimes, performance tuning is like squeezing a balloon. one part gets
smaller, but then you start to see the rest of the balloon...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-31  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-27  5:45 sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN) Andrew Morton
2001-01-27  6:20 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-01-27  8:19   ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-27 10:09     ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-27 10:45       ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-30  6:00     ` David S. Miller
2001-01-30 12:44       ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-30 12:52         ` David S. Miller
2001-01-30 14:58           ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-30 17:49             ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-30 22:17               ` David S. Miller
2001-01-31  0:31                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-31  0:45                   ` David S. Miller
2001-01-30 22:28             ` David S. Miller
2001-01-30 23:34               ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-02 10:12       ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-02 12:14         ` Trond Myklebust
2001-02-02 17:51         ` David Lang
2001-02-02 22:46           ` David S. Miller
2001-02-02 22:57             ` David Lang
2001-02-02 23:09               ` David S. Miller
2001-02-02 23:13                 ` David Lang
2001-02-02 23:28                   ` Jeff Barrow
2001-02-02 23:31                   ` David S. Miller
2001-02-03  2:27               ` James Sutherland
2001-01-27 10:05 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-27 10:39   ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-27 12:49   ` jamal
2001-01-30  1:06     ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-30  2:48       ` jamal
2001-01-30  3:26         ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-31  0:53           ` Still not sexy! (Re: " jamal
2001-01-31  0:59             ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-31  1:04               ` jamal
2001-01-31  1:14                 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-31  1:39                   ` jamal
2001-01-31 11:21                   ` Malcolm Beattie
2001-01-31 11:24                     ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-31  1:10             ` Rick Jones [this message]
2001-01-31  1:45               ` Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to dowith ECN) jamal
2001-01-31  2:25                 ` Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing todowith ECN) Rick Jones
2001-02-04 19:48                   ` jamal
2001-02-05  5:13                     ` David S. Miller
2001-02-05 18:51                     ` Rick Jones
2001-01-27 12:43 ` sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN) jamal
2001-01-27 13:29   ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-27 14:15     ` jamal
2001-01-28 16:05       ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-29 18:50   ` Rick Jones
     [not found] ` <200101271854.VAA02845@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
2001-01-28  5:34   ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-28 13:37     ` Felix von Leitner
2001-01-28 14:11       ` Dan Hollis
2001-01-28 14:27       ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-29 21:50         ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-28 19:43       ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-28 19:48       ` Choosing Linux NICs (was: Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)) Felix von Leitner

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