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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>,
	Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>,
	Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-ppc <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@de.ibm.com>, Eder <meder@de.ibm.com>,
	akepner@sgi.com,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
	Marcus@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:07:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CF1069.7090406@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070824165110.GH4282@austin.ibm.com>

> Just to be clear, in the previous email I posted on this thread, I
> described a worst-case network ping-pong test case (send a packet, wait
> for reply), and found out that a deffered interrupt scheme just damaged
> the performance of the test case.  Since the folks who came up with the
> test case were adamant, I turned off the defferred interrupts.  
> While defferred interrupts are an "obvious" solution, I decided that 
> they weren't a good solution. (And I have no other solution to offer).

Sounds exactly like the default netperf TCP_RR test and any number of other 
benchmarks.  The "send  a request, wait for reply, send next request, etc etc 
etc" is a rather common application behaviour afterall.

rick jones

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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@de.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>,
	Marcus@ozlabs.org, Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-ppc <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	akepner@sgi.com, Eder <meder@de.ibm.com>,
	Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:07:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CF1069.7090406@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070824165110.GH4282@austin.ibm.com>

> Just to be clear, in the previous email I posted on this thread, I
> described a worst-case network ping-pong test case (send a packet, wait
> for reply), and found out that a deffered interrupt scheme just damaged
> the performance of the test case.  Since the folks who came up with the
> test case were adamant, I turned off the defferred interrupts.  
> While defferred interrupts are an "obvious" solution, I decided that 
> they weren't a good solution. (And I have no other solution to offer).

Sounds exactly like the default netperf TCP_RR test and any number of other 
benchmarks.  The "send  a request, wait for reply, send next request, etc etc 
etc" is a rather common application behaviour afterall.

rick jones

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-24 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-24 13:59 RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 13:59 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 15:37 ` akepner
2007-08-24 15:37   ` akepner
2007-08-24 15:47   ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 15:47     ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 15:52     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-08-24 15:52       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-08-24 16:50       ` David Stevens
2007-08-24 16:50         ` David Stevens
2007-08-24 21:44         ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:44           ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:51           ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 21:51             ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 16:51       ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 16:51         ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 17:07         ` Rick Jones [this message]
2007-08-24 17:07           ` Rick Jones
2007-08-24 17:45         ` Shirley Ma
2007-08-24 17:45           ` Shirley Ma
2007-08-24 17:16       ` James Chapman
2007-08-24 17:16         ` James Chapman
2007-08-24 18:11         ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 18:11           ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 21:47         ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:47           ` David Miller
2007-08-24 22:06           ` akepner
2007-08-24 22:06             ` akepner
2007-08-26 19:36           ` James Chapman
2007-08-26 19:36             ` James Chapman
2007-08-27  1:58             ` David Miller
2007-08-27  1:58               ` David Miller
2007-08-27  9:47               ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-27  9:47                 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-27 20:37                 ` David Miller
2007-08-27 20:37                   ` David Miller
2007-08-28 11:19                   ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 11:19                     ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 20:21                     ` David Miller
2007-08-28 20:21                       ` David Miller
2007-08-29  7:10                       ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-29  7:10                         ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-29  8:15                         ` James Chapman
2007-08-29  8:15                           ` James Chapman
2007-08-29  8:43                           ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-29  8:43                             ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-29  8:29                         ` David Miller
2007-08-29  8:29                           ` David Miller
2007-08-29  8:31                           ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-29  8:31                             ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-27 15:51               ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 15:51                 ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 16:02                 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-27 16:02                   ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-27 17:05                   ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 17:05                     ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 21:02                 ` David Miller
2007-08-27 21:02                   ` David Miller
2007-08-27 21:41                   ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 21:41                     ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 21:56                     ` David Miller
2007-08-27 21:56                       ` David Miller
2007-08-28  9:22                       ` James Chapman
2007-08-28  9:22                         ` James Chapman
2007-08-28 11:48                         ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 11:48                           ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 12:16                           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-28 12:16                             ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-28 14:55                           ` James Chapman
2007-08-28 14:55                             ` James Chapman
2007-08-28 11:21                   ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 11:21                     ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 20:25                     ` David Miller
2007-08-28 20:25                       ` David Miller
2007-08-28 20:27                     ` David Miller
2007-08-28 20:27                       ` David Miller
2007-08-24 16:45 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 16:45   ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 21:43   ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:43     ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:32 ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:32   ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:37 ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:37   ` David Miller
     [not found] <8VHRR-45R-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <8VKwj-8ke-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-08-24 19:04   ` Bodo Eggert
2007-08-24 19:04     ` Bodo Eggert
2007-08-24 20:42     ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 20:42       ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 21:11       ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 21:11         ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 21:35         ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 21:35           ` Linas Vepstas
     [not found]   ` <E1IOeSm-0000bm-Jo__24045.532072387$1187982363$gmane$org@be1.lrz>
2007-08-24 20:24     ` Stephen Hemminger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-25  2:10 Mitchell Erblich

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