From: Tom Young <tyo@ee.unimelb.edu.au>
To: piet@bluelane.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Congestion Avoidance Monitoring Tools
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:59:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145599196.2534.38.camel@penguin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1145597174.12413.17.camel@piet2.bluelane.com>
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 22:26 -0700, Piet Delaney wrote:
> I'm upgrading our 2.6.12 kernel to 2.6.13, which includes significant
> congestion avoidance code additions and changes. I was wondering if
> there are any tools folks can recommend for testing the kernel to make
> sure the congestion avoidance code is operating correctly. For
> example the displaying of the congestion window as a function of time
> while undergoing convergence. For causing congestion I could modify
> a kernel to discard packets once in a while on a lab gateway and hit
> it with iperf. HP's netperf looks interesting.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> -piet
>
Hi,
Try having a look at the output of 'ss -i' (you may need to update to
the latest iproute2 tools). You could either try and parse the text
output of that or use the same inet_diag interface that ss uses to poll
for the data it at regular intervals.
--
Thomas Young
http://cubinlab.ee.unimelb.edu.au/~tyo/
Research Assistant
CUBIN Research Centre - University of Melbourne
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-21 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-21 5:26 Congestion Avoidance Monitoring Tools Piet Delaney
2006-04-21 5:59 ` Tom Young [this message]
2006-04-21 6:57 ` Andi Kleen
2006-04-21 7:25 ` Piet Delaney
2006-04-21 15:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-23 22:52 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2006-04-24 17:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
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