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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 10GBE performance drop with net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:16:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1340183793.4604.846.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE192A1.6000000@profihost.ag>

On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 11:06 +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> Am 20.06.2012 10:41, schrieb Eric Dumazet:
> > On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 10:21 +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> >> Am 20.06.2012 09:22, schrieb Eric Dumazet:
> > Yes, you already told that in subject line.
> >
> > single tcp flow ?
> I use iperf - i think it uses just a single tcp flow. But i'm not sure.
> 
> > You seem to have a switch or something that drops packets in this case.
> > You could try to rate limit to 9Gb/s and see if it is better.
> Sadly i can't rate limit to 9Gbit/s on the switch.

I was suggesting rate limiting on your linux sender machine, just to
verify if its indeed a problem on the path.

Its a matter of a "tc qdisc ..." command ;)

Or maybe iperf has an option for rate limiting.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-20  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-19 21:08 10GBE performance drop with net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0 Stefan Priebe
2012-06-19 21:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-20  7:00   ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-06-20  7:22     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-20  8:21       ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-06-20  8:41         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-20  9:06           ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-06-20  9:12             ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-06-20  9:17               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-20  9:25                 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-06-20  9:28                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-20  9:33                     ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-06-20  9:47                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-20  9:50                         ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-06-20 10:06                           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-20 11:08                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-20  9:16             ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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