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From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@linuxpower.cx>
To: Nye Liu <nyet@curtis.curtisfong.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Very high bandwith packet based interface and performance problems
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:27:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010221172705.C5113@xi.linuxpower.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010220181955.A1994@hobag.internal.zumanetworks.com> <E14VXub-0001vv-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20010221140055.A8113@curtis.curtisfong.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010221140055.A8113@curtis.curtisfong.org>; from nyet@curtis.curtisfong.org on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:00:55PM -0800

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:00:55PM -0800, Nye Liu wrote:
[snip]
> This is NOT what I'm seeing at all.. the kernel load appears to be
> pegged at 100% (or very close to it), the user space app is getting
> enough cpu time to read out about 10-20Mbit, and FURTHERMORE the kernel
> appears to be ACKING ALL the traffic, which I don't understand at all
> (e.g. the transmitter is simply blasting 300MBit of tcp unrestricted)
> 
> With udp, we can get the full 300MBit throughput, but only if we shape
> the load to 300Mbit. If we increase the load past 300 MBit, the received
> frames (at the user space udp app) drops to 10-20MBit, again due to
> user-space application scheduling problems.

Perhaps excess context switches are thrashing the system?

      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-21 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-21  2:19 Very high bandwith packet based interface and performance problems Nye Liu
     [not found] ` <E14VXub-0001vv-00@the-village.bc.nu>
2001-02-21 22:00   ` Nye Liu
2001-02-21 22:07     ` Alan Cox
2001-02-21 22:11       ` Nye Liu
2001-02-21 22:25         ` Alan Cox
2001-02-22  1:24       ` Nye Liu
2001-02-22  1:50         ` Rick Jones
2001-02-22 10:14         ` Alan Cox
2001-02-22  1:46       ` Rick Jones
2001-02-22 10:20         ` Alan Cox
2001-02-22 18:12           ` Rick Jones
2001-02-23 18:27             ` kuznet
2001-02-22 21:48       ` Pavel Machek
2001-02-21 22:27     ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]

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