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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: incoming packet latency in 2.4.[18-20]
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:45:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8D6BB0.7060809@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)


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?

Thanks,

Chris

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             reply	other threads:[~2003-10-15 15:45 UTC|newest]

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

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