Re: V2.4 policy router operates faster/better than V2.6

["Jeremy M. Guthrie" <jeremy.guthrie@berbee.com>]

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Latest numbers after your patch Robert.

Wed Jan 12 14:05:36 CST 2005
eth3      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:B3:D5:7E:30
          inet addr:10.253.0.1  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:b3ff:fed5:7e30/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:21951496 errors:2412189 dropped:2412189 overruns:377090 
frame:0
          TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3455362966 (3295.2 Mb)  TX bytes:398 (398.0 b)
          Base address:0x22a0 Memory:eff80000-effa0000

95b83157 150dc67c 00c734a1 000d2659 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 
0073cee4
00044494 00000000 00000075 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 
00097c77
entries  in_hit in_slow_tot in_no_route in_brd in_martian_dst in_martian_src  
out_hit out_slow_tot out_slow_mc  gc_total gc_ignored gc_goal_miss 
gc_dst_overflow in_hlist_search out_hlist_search
0000f8cd  41403122 34c30e49 00000000 00000000 0000b0dd 00006a38 00000002  
0027279d 0004147b 00000000 2f528a5f 2f42efcf 0000104f 00000000 81d262df 
00c5d75c
0000f8cd  0000e332 0003238f 00000000 00000000 00004263 00000000 00000000  
0000001e 000000c0 00000002 00004650 00004626 00000000 00000000 0016b879 
0000024c





Wed Jan 12 14:06:36 CST 2005
eth3      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:B3:D5:7E:30
          inet addr:10.253.0.1  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:b3ff:fed5:7e30/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:28053281 errors:2899869 dropped:2899869 overruns:427243 
frame:0
          TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2607094069 (2486.3 Mb)  TX bytes:398 (398.0 b)
          Base address:0x22a0 Memory:eff80000-effa0000

96154d20 150dc67c 00c78bc2 000d2659 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 
0073d31d
00044499 00000000 00000075 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 
00097d2d
entries  in_hit in_slow_tot in_no_route in_brd in_martian_dst in_martian_src  
out_hit out_slow_tot out_slow_mc  gc_total gc_ignored gc_goal_miss 
gc_dst_overflow in_hlist_search out_hlist_search
0000fc6a  419ad196 34c586ba 00000000 00000000 0000b0e0 00006a40 00000002  
002729c5 000414cb 00000000 2f5502ff 2f4567f7 0000104f 00000000 83790467 
00c5e33c
0000fc6a  0000e333 00032393 00000000 00000000 00004263 00000000 00000000  
0000001e 000000c0 00000002 00004650 00004626 00000000 00000000 0016b898 
0000024c


On Wednesday 12 January 2005 01:27 pm, Robert Olsson wrote:
> Jeremy M. Guthrie writes:
>  > >  > ETH3 Interrupts(calc'd from below):  1479968
>  > >
>  > >  Very strange...
>  > >
>  > >  eth3 is bound to CPU0 which in turn has all packet load... If we were
>  > >  to believe your CPU0 was saturated (due to the drops). We should see
>  > > no (RX) interrupts on eth3. But there is a lot... one irq per every
>  > > three packet. Why?
>  >
>  > I have no idea why it would be doing this.
>
>  Huh seems you didn't add the patch I sent. Below is diff from my editor to
> your e1000_main.c
>
>        --ro
>
>
> --- e1000_main.c.jmg 2005-01-12 20:14:08.324168072 +0100
> +++ e1000_main.c 2005-01-12 20:17:24.777302656 +0100
> @@ -2264,14 +2264,13 @@
>   netdev->quota -= work_done;
>
>   /* if no Rx and Tx cleanup work was done, exit the polling mode */
> - if(!tx_cleaned || (work_done < work_to_do) ||
> -    !netif_running(netdev)) {
> +  if( (!tx_cleaned && (work_done == 0)) || !netif_running(netdev)) {
>  quit_polling: netif_rx_complete(netdev);
>    e1000_irq_enable(adapter);
>    return 0;
>   }
>
> - return (work_done >= work_to_do);
> + return 1;
>  }
>
>  #endif

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Jeremy M. Guthrie        jeremy.guthrie@berbee.com
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