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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: jheffner@psc.edu, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: bad TSO performance in 2.6.9-rc2-BK
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:17:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040929141731.2685e561.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040929225635.061f2405.ak@suse.de>

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:56:35 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> Also the test that John wanted to diable has been in Linux practically
> forever (irc dates back to Eric Schenk's work in 2.0) 

Yes, but it could prove something about either the sender
or the receiver, namely that the receive window is not openning
up fast enough for some reason, thus delaying the ACKs.

> Part of the trace. It looks like the new kernel has really
> bad problems with acking.

It looks, again, like the receiver's window is not openning
up fast enough, which controls ACK response decisions, and
that is what jheffner's patch is supposed to verify.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-29 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-20  6:30 bad TSO performance in 2.6.9-rc2-BK Anton Blanchard
2004-09-20 15:54 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-09-21 15:55   ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-20 20:30 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-21 22:58   ` David S. Miller
2004-09-22 14:00     ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-22 18:12       ` David S. Miller
2004-09-22 19:55         ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-22 20:07           ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-09-22 20:30             ` David S. Miller
2004-09-22 20:56               ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-09-22 21:56               ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-22 22:04                 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-22 20:12           ` Andrew Grover
2004-09-22 20:39             ` David S. Miller
2004-09-22 22:06               ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-22 22:25                 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-22 22:47                   ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-22 22:50                     ` David S. Miller
2004-09-23 23:11                     ` David S. Miller
2004-09-23 23:41                       ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-23 23:41                         ` David S. Miller
2004-09-24  0:12                           ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-24  0:40                             ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-24  1:07                               ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-24  1:17                                 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-27  1:27                           ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-27  2:50                             ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-27  4:00                               ` David S. Miller
2004-09-27  5:45                                 ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-27 19:01                                   ` David S. Miller
2004-09-27 21:32                                     ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-28 21:10                                       ` David S. Miller
2004-09-28 21:34                                         ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-28 21:53                                           ` David S. Miller
2004-09-28 22:33                                             ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-28 22:57                                               ` David S. Miller
2004-09-28 23:27                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-28 23:35                                                   ` David S. Miller
2004-09-28 23:55                                                     ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-29  0:04                                                       ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29 20:58                                                   ` John Heffner
2004-09-29 21:10                                                     ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-09-29 21:50                                                       ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29 21:56                                                         ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-29 23:29                                                           ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29 23:51                                                             ` John Heffner
2004-09-30  0:03                                                               ` David S. Miller
2004-09-30  0:10                                                                 ` Herbert Xu
2004-10-01  0:34                                                                   ` David S. Miller
2004-10-01  1:12                                                                     ` David S. Miller
2004-10-01  3:40                                                                       ` David S. Miller
2004-10-01 10:35                                                                         ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-01 10:23                                                                       ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-30  0:10                                                               ` John Heffner
2004-09-30 17:25                                                                 ` John Heffner
2004-09-30 20:23                                                                   ` David S. Miller
2004-09-30  0:05                                                             ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-30  4:33                                                               ` David S. Miller
2004-09-30  5:47                                                                 ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-30  7:39                                                                   ` David S. Miller
2004-09-30  8:09                                                                     ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-30  9:29                                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-30 20:20                                                                   ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29  3:27                                               ` John Heffner
2004-09-29  9:01                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-29 19:56                                                   ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29 20:56                                                     ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-29 21:17                                                       ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-09-29 21:00                                                 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29 21:16                                                   ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-09-29 21:22                                                     ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29 21:43                                                       ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-29 21:51                                                         ` John Heffner
2004-09-29 21:52                                                           ` David S. Miller
2004-09-24  8:30                       ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-27 22:38                       ` John Heffner
2004-09-27 23:04                         ` David S. Miller
2004-09-27 23:25                           ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-27 23:37                             ` David S. Miller
2004-09-27 23:51                               ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-28  0:15                                 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-27 23:36                           ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-28  0:13                             ` David S. Miller
2004-09-28  0:34                               ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-28  4:59                                 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-28  5:15                                   ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-28  5:58                                     ` David S. Miller
2004-09-28  6:45                                   ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-09-28  7:20                               ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-09-28 20:38                                 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-28  7:23                         ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-09-28  8:23                           ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-28 12:53                           ` John Heffner
2004-09-22 20:28           ` David S. Miller
     [not found] <Pine.NEB.4.33.0409301625560.13549-100000@dexter.psc.edu>
2004-10-02  1:32 ` John Heffner
2004-10-04 20:07   ` David S. Miller

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