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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Ben Hoyt <benhoyt@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Minimizing TCP latency
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:20:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269919203.8653.435.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c93bf1e1003291936v4b0f610eiae07c236dfc72047@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 15:36 +1300, Ben Hoyt wrote:
> > Choose low-latency NICs.  Read the tuning guide, but run your own
> > benchmarks.
> 
> Is this the tuning guide you're referring to?
> http://fasterdata.es.net/TCP-tuning/linux.html

No, and that doesn't say anything about latency.

There are quite a few generic tuning knobs (buffer and ring sizes,
interrupt moderation and affinity).  However, many vendors of
high-performance NICs, including Solarflare, provide a performance
tuning guide as part of their documentation, which can include
hardware-specific advice.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.


      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-30  3:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-29  1:29 Minimizing TCP latency Ben Hoyt
2010-03-29  2:43 ` Ben Hoyt
2010-03-29  3:24 ` Ben Hoyt
2010-03-29  5:34   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-03-30  2:35     ` Ben Hoyt
2010-03-30  4:05       ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-03-29 12:40   ` Neil Horman
2010-03-29 15:23   ` Ben Hutchings
2010-03-30  2:36     ` Ben Hoyt
2010-03-30  3:20       ` Ben Hutchings [this message]

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