From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-netdev@oss.sgi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Info: NAPI performance at "low" loads
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:32:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D879F59.6BDF9443@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020917.135939.52477700.davem@redhat.com
"David S. Miller" wrote:
>
> From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:53:03 +0200
>
> Receiver:
> $ loadtest
>
> This appears to be x86 only, sorry I can't test this out for you as
> all my boxes are sparc64.
>
> I was actually eager to try your tests out here.
>
> Do you really need to use x86 instructions to do what you
> are doing? There are portable pthread mutexes available.
There is a similar background loadtester at
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/#zc .
It's fairly fancy - I wrote it for measuring networking
efficiency. It doesn't seem to have any PCisms....
(I measured similar regression using an ancient NAPIfied
3c59x a long time ago).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-17 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-17 19:53 Info: NAPI performance at "low" loads Manfred Spraul
2002-09-17 20:59 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-17 21:32 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-17 21:26 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-17 21:45 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-17 21:39 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-17 21:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-17 21:49 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-18 2:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-18 2:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-18 2:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-17 21:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-18 0:57 ` jamal
2002-09-18 1:00 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-18 2:16 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-18 17:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-09-18 17:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-19 14:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-09-18 20:23 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-18 20:43 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-18 20:46 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-18 21:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-18 21:22 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-19 15:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-09-19 15:53 ` Alan Cox
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