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From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
To: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@sunset.davemloft.net,
	kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc1: Volanomark slowdown
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:07:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163023652.10806.203.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061108221028.GA16889@suse.de>

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 23:10 +0100, Olaf Kirch wrote:

> 
> In fixing performance issues, the most obvious explanation isn't always
> the right one. It's quite possible you're right, sure.
> 
> What I'm saying though is that it doesn't rhyme with what I've seen of
> Volanomark - we ran 2.6.16 on a 4p Intel box for instance and it didn't
> come close to saturating a Gigabit pipe before it maxed out on CPU load.
> 

I am running Volanomark in a loopback mode on a 2P woodcrest box 
(4 cores).  So the configuration is a bit different.  

In my testing, the CPU utilization is at 100%.  So
increase in ACKs will cost CPU to devote more
time to process those ACKs and reduce throughput.

> 
> You could count the number of outbound packets dropped on the server.
> 

As I'm running in loopback mode, there are no dropped packets.

Thanks.

Tim


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-08 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1162924354.10806.172.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2006-11-07 20:45 ` 2.6.19-rc1: Volanomark slowdown David Miller
2006-11-07 21:50   ` John Heffner
2006-11-07 22:22     ` David Miller
2006-11-07 22:29       ` John Heffner
2006-11-08 10:07   ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-11-08 15:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-08 16:29   ` Olaf Kirch
2006-11-08 18:38     ` Tim Chen
2006-11-08 19:44       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-08 22:10       ` Olaf Kirch
2006-11-08 22:07         ` Tim Chen [this message]
2006-11-08 23:00           ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-08 22:32             ` Tim Chen
2006-11-09  9:21           ` Olaf Kirch
2006-11-08 22:58         ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-09  1:08         ` Rick Jones

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