From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
To: Hyochang Nam <cannon@postech.ac.kr>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [Question] SMP for TCP/IP Stack
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 12:32:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D920F38.410CA3AB@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020925112731.A19934@toad.postech.ac.kr
Hyochang Nam wrote:
>
> Can Linux Kernel 2.4.X handle two IP Packets at the same time
> in a SMP machine which has two CPUs?
We've done tests on large SMP's without significant problems.
> I have a SMP machine which equips two Intel Xeon CPUs and two
> Intel Gigabit Network Cards. When I sent small IP Packets
> to the machine, most of packets are dropped. When I watch
How small is your small packet? Do you have the same problem
with larger packets?
Are these drops showing up in ifconfig output? i.e. reported
by the card? In which case I suspect it might be a card issue.
Also, have you configured your card settings?
> CPU utlization with TOP program, only one CPU shows high value
> but the other shows much low value, ie. 10% CPU utlization.
How are you doing your sends? Is your application mostly running
on one CPU? Do you have anything else running on the busy CPU?
What is the interrupt distribution between the two CPU's?
> My test shows current IP Stack in Linux Kernel cannot provide
> SMP Processing properly. But, some articles said Linux Kernel 2.4
> gives true SMP processing. What do you think my problem is?
Could you provide your stats (ifconfig, netstat -s)?
> Hyochang Nam
thanks,
Nivedita
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-25 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-25 2:27 [Question] SMP for TCP/IP Stack Hyochang Nam
2002-09-25 2:35 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-25 3:11 ` Ben Greear
2002-09-25 19:32 ` Nivedita Singhvi [this message]
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