Re: Network performance degradation from 2.6.11.12 to 2.6.16.20

Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-09-18T16:29:01Z

Hello!

> Hmm, not sure how that could happen. Also is it a real problem
> even if it could?

As I said, the problem is _occasionally_ theoretical.

This would happen f.e. if packet socket handler was installed
after IP handler. Then tcpdump would get packet after it is processed
(acked/replied/forwarded). This would be disasterous, the results
are unparsable.

I recall, the issue was discussed, and that time it looked more
reasonable to solve problems of this kind taking timestamp once
before it is seen by all the rest of stack. Who could expect that
PIT nightmare is going to return? :-)

> Then it has to use the ACPI pmtmr which is really really slow.
> The overhead of that thing is so large that you can clearly see it in
> the network benchmark.

I see. Thank you.

Alexey