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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] rfs: Receive Flow Steering
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:25:33 +0200
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Le vendredi 16 avril 2010 =C3=A0 23:12 +0200, Eric Dumazet a =C3=A9crit=
 :
> Le vendredi 16 avril 2010 =C3=A0 13:42 -0700, Tom Herbert a =C3=A9cri=
t :
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.=
com> wrote:
> > > Le vendredi 16 avril 2010 =C3=A0 11:35 -0700, Tom Herbert a =C3=A9=
crit :
> > >> Results with "tbench 16" on an 8 core Intel machine.
> > >>
> > >> No RPS/RFS:  2155 MB/sec
> > >> RPS (0ff mask): 1700 MB/sec
> > >> RFS: 1097
> > >>
> >=20
> > Blah, I mistakingly reported that... should have been:
> >=20
> > No RPS/RFS:  2155 MB/sec
> > RPS (0ff mask): 1097 MB/sec
> > RFS: 1700 MB/sec
> >=20
> > Sorry about that!
>=20
> > This was my expectation too, and what my "corrected" numbers show :=
-)
> > But, I take it this is different in your results?
>=20
>=20
> My results are on a "tbench 16" on an dual X5570  @ 2.93GHz.
> (16 logical cpus)
>=20
> No RPS , no RFS : 4448.14 MB/sec=20
> RPS : 2298.00 MB/sec (but lot of variation)
> RFS : 2600 MB/sec
>=20
> Maybe my RFS setup is bad ?
> (8192 flows)
>=20

Very strange, a second tbench-16 RFS=3Dy run gave me 2134.08 MB/sec=20

A third run gave me 1813.21 MB/sec=20
A fourth run gave me 2472.91 MB/sec=20

Hmm...