From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, dada1@cosmosbay.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Subject: Re: poor network loopback performance and scalability
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:22:00 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080421.032200.209759978.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080421101908.GC9295@gondor.apana.org.au>
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:19:08 +0800
> I belive the current value is a legacy from the days when we didn't
> support skb page frags so everything had to be physically contiguous.
It's legacy from when my top-of-the-line UltraSPARC-I 130Mhz cpus
got the best loopback results using that value :-)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-21 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-21 18:51 [RFC,PATCH] loopback: calls netif_receive_skb() instead of netif_rx() Eric Dumazet
2008-02-21 20:14 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-02-21 23:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-02-22 10:19 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-02-27 2:21 ` David Miller
2008-02-27 7:20 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-27 7:23 ` David Miller
2008-02-27 7:34 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-01 10:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-04 4:55 ` David Miller
2008-03-04 5:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-03-04 6:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-23 10:29 ` David Miller
2008-03-23 18:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-23 19:15 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-29 1:36 ` David Miller
2008-03-29 8:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-29 23:54 ` David Miller
2008-03-31 6:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-31 9:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-31 10:01 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-31 10:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-01 9:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-04-03 14:06 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-03 16:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-31 10:08 ` David Miller
2008-03-31 10:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-31 11:02 ` David Miller
2008-03-31 11:36 ` poor network loopback performance and scalability (was: Re: [RFC,PATCH] loopback: calls netif_receive_skb() instead of netif_rx()) Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21 3:24 ` Herbert Xu
2008-04-21 3:38 ` poor network loopback performance and scalability David Miller
2008-04-21 8:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21 8:16 ` David Miller
2008-04-21 10:19 ` Herbert Xu
2008-04-21 10:22 ` David Miller [this message]
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