Re: [RFC] implement QUEUED spinlocks on powerpc

[panxinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

在 2017/2/7 下午2:46, Eric Dumazet 写道:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 10:21 PM, panxinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> hi all
>>         I do some netperf tests and get some benchmark results.
>> I also attach my test script and netperf-result(Excel)
>>
>> There are two machine. one runs netserver and the other runs netperf
>> benchmark. 1000Mbps network is connected with them.
>>
>> #ip link infomation
>> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state
>> UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>>      link/ether ba:68:9c:14:32:02 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>>
>> According to the results, there is not much performance gap with each other.
>> And as we are only testing the throughput, the pvqspinlock shows the
>> overhead of its pv stuff. but qspinlock shows a little improvement than
>> spinlock. My simple summary in this testcase is
>> qspinlock > spinlock > pvqspinlock.
>>
>> when run 200 concurrent netperf, I paste the total throughput here.
>>
>>         concurrent runners| total throughput | variance
>> -------------------------------------------
>> spinlock        | 199 | 66882.8 | 89.93
>> -------------------------------------------
>> qspinlock       | 199 | 66350.4 | 72.0239
>> -------------------------------------------
>> pvqspinlock     | 199 | 64740.5 | 85.7837
>>
>> You could see more data in nerperf.xlsx
>>
>> thanks
>> xinhui
>
>
> Hi xinhui
>
> 1Gbit NIC is too slow for this use case. I would try a 10Gbit NIC at least...
>
> Alternatively, you could use loopback interface.  (netperf -H 127.0.0.1)
>
> tc qd add dev lo root pfifo limit 10000
>

great, thanks
xinhui