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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Matt Leininger <mlleinin@hpcn.ca.sandia.gov>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	openib-general@openib.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: Re: TSO and IPoIB performance degradation
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:49:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060307134907.733d3d27@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141767891.6119.903.camel@localhost>

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:44:51 -0800
Matt Leininger <mlleinin@hpcn.ca.sandia.gov> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 19:13 -0800, Shirley Ma wrote:
> > 
> > > More likely you are getting hit by the fact that TSO prevents the
> > congestion
> > window from increasing properly. This was fixed in 2.6.15 (around mid
> > of Nov 2005). 
> > 
> > Yep, I noticed the same problem. After updating to the new kernel, the
> > performance are much better, but it's still lower than before.
> 
>  Here is an updated version of OpenIB IPoIB performance for various
> kernels with and without one of the TSO patches.  The netperf
> performance for the latest kernels has not improved the TSO performance
> drop.
> 
>   Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
>   - Matt

Configuration information? like did you increase the tcp_rmem, tcp_wmem?
Tcpdump traces of what is being sent and available window?
Is IB using NAPI or just doing netif_rx()?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-07 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-06 22:34 TSO and IPoIB performance degradation Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-06 22:40 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-06 22:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-03-07  3:13   ` Shirley Ma
2006-03-07 21:44     ` Matt Leininger
2006-03-07 21:49       ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-03-07 21:53         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-08  0:11         ` Matt Leininger
2006-03-08  0:18           ` David S. Miller
2006-03-08  1:17             ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-08  1:23               ` David S. Miller
2006-03-08  1:34                 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-08 12:53                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-08 20:53                   ` David S. Miller
2006-03-09 23:48                   ` David S. Miller
2006-03-10  0:10                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-10  0:38                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-10  7:18                       ` David S. Miller
2006-03-10  0:21                     ` Rick Jones
2006-03-10  7:23                       ` David S. Miller
2006-03-10 17:44                         ` Rick Jones
2006-03-20  9:06                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-20  9:55                           ` David S. Miller
2006-03-20 10:22                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-20 10:37                               ` David S. Miller
2006-03-20 11:27                                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-20 11:47                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-20 11:49                                     ` Lennert Buytenhek
2006-03-20 11:53                                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-20 13:35                                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-20 12:04                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-20 15:09                                         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-20 18:58                                           ` Rick Jones
2006-03-20 23:00                                           ` David S. Miller
2006-04-27  4:13                                 ` Troy Benjegerdes

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