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From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: incoming packet latency in 2.4.[18-20]
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:16:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031015181602.07fd0959.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F8D6BB0.7060809@nortelnetworks.com>

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:45:52 -0400
Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:

> 
> There is an issue with incoming packet latency in the kernels mentioned.
> 
> It seems that if you send in a burst of messages, the amount of time it 
> takes to wake the listening process is dependent on the size of the 
> message burst.  2.4.18-2.4.20 all show this behaviour, 2.6 doesn't.
> 
> Some numbers for a udp message size of 2 bytes:
> 
> 1 packet, average latency 12 usecs
> 10 packets, average latency 66 usecs
> 100 packets, average latency 477 usecs
> 
> Is this a known issue?  Is there an easy way to fix this, or is it 
> something inherent in the 2.4 architecture?

Can you verify these numbers with 2.4.22 and 2.4.23-pre7 ?

Regards,
Stephan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-15 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-15 15:45 incoming packet latency in 2.4.[18-20] Chris Friesen
2003-10-15 16:15 ` Matt H.
2003-10-15 16:16 ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]

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