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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
To: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND] tuning linux for high network performance?
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:41:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210231541.02883.roy@karlsbakk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021023130101.GA646@outpost.ds9a.nl>

> '50 clients *each* streaming at ~4.4MBps', better make that clear,
> otherwise something is *very* broken. Also mention that you have an e1000
> card which does not do outgoing checksumming.

just to clearify

s/MBps/Mbps/
s/bps/bits per second/

> You'd think that a kernel would be able to do 250megabits of TCP checksums
> though.
>
> > ...adding the whole profile output - sorted by the first column this
> > time...
> >
> > 905182 total                                      0.4741
> > 121426 csum_partial_copy_generic                474.3203
> >  93633 default_idle                             1800.6346
> >  74665 do_wp_page                               111.1086
>
> Perhaps the 'copy' also entails grabbing the page from disk, leading to
> inflated csum_partial_copy_generic stats?

I really don't know. Just to clearify a little more - the server app uses 
O_DIRECT to read the data before tossing it to the socket.

> Where are you serving from?

What do you mean?

roy
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-23 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-23 10:18 tuning linux for high network performance? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-23 11:06 ` [RESEND] " Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-23 13:01   ` bert hubert
2002-10-23 13:21     ` David S. Miller
2002-10-23 13:42       ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-23 17:01         ` bert hubert
2002-10-23 17:10           ` Ben Greear
2002-10-23 17:11           ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-10-23 17:12           ` Nivedita Singhvi
2002-10-23 17:56             ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-10-23 18:07               ` Nivedita Singhvi
2002-10-23 18:30                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-10-24  4:11         ` David S. Miller
2002-10-24  9:37           ` Karen Shaeffer
2002-10-24 10:30           ` sendfile64() anyone? (was [RESEND] tuning linux for high network performance?) Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-24 10:47             ` David S. Miller
2002-10-24 11:07               ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-23 13:41     ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [this message]
2002-10-23 14:59     ` [RESEND] tuning linux for high network performance? Nivedita Singhvi
2002-10-23 15:26       ` O_DIRECT sockets? (was [RESEND] tuning linux for high network performance?) Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-23 16:34         ` Nivedita Singhvi
2002-10-24 10:14           ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-24 10:46             ` David S. Miller
2002-10-23 18:01   ` [RESEND] tuning linux for high network performance? Denis Vlasenko
2002-10-23 13:36     ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-24 16:22       ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-10-24 11:50         ` Russell King
2002-10-24 12:42           ` bert hubert
2002-10-24 17:41           ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-10-25 11:36             ` Csum and csum copyroutines benchmark Denis Vlasenko
2002-10-25  7:48               ` Momchil Velikov
2002-10-25 13:59                 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-10-25  9:47                   ` Momchil Velikov
2002-10-25 10:19                   ` Alan Cox
2002-10-25 16:00                     ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-10-23 14:52     ` [RESEND] tuning linux for high network performance? Nivedita Singhvi

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