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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>,
	Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: allocate skbs on local node
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:27:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101014122752.21dd4eaf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin8FczYpPvi79w7iuKOZz3uZtYFfTPitAgQFxzD@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:31:01 -0700
Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> wrote:

> > This is all conspicuously hand-wavy and unquantified. __(IOW: prove it!)
> >
> > The mooted effects should be tested for on both slab and slub, I
> > suggest. __They're pretty different beasts.
> > --
> 
> Some results running netper TCP_RR test with 200 instances, 1 byte
> request and response on 16 core AMD using bnx2x with one 16 queues,
> one for each CPU.
> 
> SLAB
> 
> Without patch 553570 tps at 86% CPU
> With patch 791883 tps at 93% CPU
> 
> SLUB
> 
> Without patch 704879 tps at 95% CPU
> With patch 775278 tps at 92% CPU
> 
> I believe both show good benfits with patch, and it actually looks
> like the impact is more pronounced for SLAB.  I would also note, that
> we have actually already internally patched __netdev_alloc_skb to do
> local node allocation which we have been running in production for
> quite some time.
> 

Yes, that's a solid gain.

Can we think of any hardware configuration for which the change would
be harmful?  Something with really expensive cross-node DMA maybe?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-14 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-11 23:03 [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: dont use netdev_alloc_skb() Eric Dumazet
2010-10-11 23:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12  5:03   ` Tom Herbert
2010-10-12  5:16     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12  9:12       ` Vladislav Zolotarov
2010-10-14 17:39         ` David Miller
2010-10-14 18:17           ` Eilon Greenstein
2010-10-14 18:20             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-14 18:25               ` David Miller
2010-10-14 18:17           ` Tom Herbert
2010-10-12  5:05   ` [PATCH net-next] net: allocate skbs on local node Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12  5:35     ` Tom Herbert
2010-10-12  6:03     ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-12  6:58       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12  7:24         ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-12  7:49           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12  7:58             ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-12 11:08               ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-12 12:50                 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-12 19:43                   ` David Rientjes
2010-10-13  6:17                     ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-13  6:31                       ` David Rientjes
2010-10-13  6:36                         ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-13 16:00                     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-13 20:48                       ` David Rientjes
2010-10-13 21:43                         ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-13 22:41                           ` David Rientjes
2010-10-14  6:22                             ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-14  7:23                               ` David Rientjes
2010-10-15 14:23                             ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-14 15:31       ` Tom Herbert
2010-10-14 16:05         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-15 16:57           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-14 19:27         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-10-14 19:59           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-16 18:54     ` David Miller
2010-10-12 16:07 ` [BUG net-next] bnx2x: all traffic comes to RX queue 0 Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12 16:20   ` Dmitry Kravkov
2010-10-12 18:11     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12 18:18       ` Vladislav Zolotarov

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