From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Cc: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@sunset.davemloft.net,
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc1: Volanomark slowdown
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:00:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061108150007.49eaea68@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163023652.10806.203.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:07:32 -0800
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 23:10 +0100, Olaf Kirch wrote:
>
> >
> > In fixing performance issues, the most obvious explanation isn't always
> > the right one. It's quite possible you're right, sure.
> >
> > What I'm saying though is that it doesn't rhyme with what I've seen of
> > Volanomark - we ran 2.6.16 on a 4p Intel box for instance and it didn't
> > come close to saturating a Gigabit pipe before it maxed out on CPU load.
> >
>
> I am running Volanomark in a loopback mode on a 2P woodcrest box
> (4 cores). So the configuration is a bit different.
>
> In my testing, the CPU utilization is at 100%. So
> increase in ACKs will cost CPU to devote more
> time to process those ACKs and reduce throughput.
>
> >
> > You could count the number of outbound packets dropped on the server.
> >
>
> As I'm running in loopback mode, there are no dropped packets.
>
Optimizing for loopback is perversion; perversion can be fun but it gets
to be a obsession then it's sick.
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-08 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1162924354.10806.172.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2006-11-07 20:45 ` 2.6.19-rc1: Volanomark slowdown David Miller
2006-11-07 21:50 ` John Heffner
2006-11-07 22:22 ` David Miller
2006-11-07 22:29 ` John Heffner
2006-11-08 10:07 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-11-08 15:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-08 16:29 ` Olaf Kirch
2006-11-08 18:38 ` Tim Chen
2006-11-08 19:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-08 22:10 ` Olaf Kirch
2006-11-08 22:07 ` Tim Chen
2006-11-08 23:00 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-11-08 22:32 ` Tim Chen
2006-11-09 9:21 ` Olaf Kirch
2006-11-08 22:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-09 1:08 ` Rick Jones
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