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From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ashish Karkare <akarkare@marvell.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: using software TSO on non-TSO capable netdevices
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:45:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080731174546.GD31160@xi.wantstofly.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4891EFB0.4040003@hp.com>

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:00:32AM -0700, Rick Jones wrote:

> >When using sendfile() to send a GiB worth of zeroes over a single TCP
> >connection to another host on a 100 Mb/s network, with a vanilla
> >2.6.27-rc1 kernel, this runs as expected at wire speed, taking the
> >following amount of CPU time per test:
> >
> >	sys     0m5.410s
> >	sys     0m5.380s
> >	sys     0m5.620s
> >	sys     0m5.360s
> 
> That's output from "time" run against your test program right?  Are 
> folks confident that will account for all the CPU time consumed on 
> behalf of that program?

No, but I wasn't drawing absolute conclusions, just comparing runs
without GSO with runs with GSO.  :-)

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-31 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-30 23:50 using software TSO on non-TSO capable netdevices Lennert Buytenhek
2008-07-30 23:56 ` David Miller
2008-07-31  0:41   ` Lennert Buytenhek
2008-07-31  1:10     ` David Miller
2008-07-31  1:45       ` Lennert Buytenhek
2008-07-31  3:54         ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-31  9:45           ` Lennert Buytenhek
2008-07-31 10:55             ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-31 12:37               ` Lennert Buytenhek
2008-07-31 12:59                 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-03  8:23                   ` David Miller
2008-07-31  7:34       ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-07-31  9:50         ` Lennert Buytenhek
2008-07-31 10:27           ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-07-31  2:29     ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-31  2:36       ` Lennert Buytenhek
2008-07-31  3:03         ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-31  6:55           ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-07-31  9:39             ` Lennert Buytenhek
2008-07-31 10:14           ` Lennert Buytenhek
2008-07-31 10:16             ` David Miller
2008-07-31 12:25               ` Lennert Buytenhek
2008-07-31 12:35                 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 13:19                   ` Ben Hutchings
2008-07-31 13:27                     ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-03  8:19                       ` David Miller
2008-08-03  8:55                         ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-07  6:07                           ` David Miller
2008-08-07  6:15                             ` Herbert Xu
2008-09-12  4:08                               ` David Miller
2008-08-07 11:50                             ` Lennert Buytenhek
2008-08-07 20:32                             ` Rick Jones
2008-08-07 22:44                               ` David Miller
2008-07-31 17:00 ` Rick Jones
2008-07-31 17:45   ` Lennert Buytenhek [this message]

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