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From: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>
To: wenji@fnal.gov
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, akpm@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Changelog] - Potential performance bottleneck for Linxu TCP
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:36:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <456E196E.2080802@mbligh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HNEBLGGMEGLPMPPDOPMGCEAKCGAA.wenji@fnal.gov>

Wenji Wu wrote:
> From: Wenji Wu <wenji@fnal.gov>
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> For Linux TCP, when the network applcaiton make system call to move data
> from
> socket's receive buffer to user space by calling tcp_recvmsg(). The socket
> will
> be locked. During the period, all the incoming packet for the TCP socket
> will go
> to the backlog queue without being TCP processed. Since Linux 2.6 can be
> inerrupted mid-task, if the network application expires, and moved to the
> expired array with the socket locked, all the packets within the backlog
> queue
> will not be TCP processed till the network applicaton resume its execution.
> If
> the system is heavily loaded, TCP can easily RTO in the Sender Side.


So how much difference did this patch actually make, and to what
benchmark?

> The patch is for Linux kernel 2.6.14 Deskop and Low-latency Desktop

The patch oesn't seem to be attached? Also, would be better to make
it for the latest kernel version (2.6.19) ... 2.6.14 is rather old ;-)

M

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-29 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <HNEBLGGMEGLPMPPDOPMGKEAJCGAA.wenji@fnal.gov>
2006-11-29 23:27 ` [Changelog] - Potential performance bottleneck for Linxu TCP Wenji Wu
2006-11-29 23:28   ` [patch 1/4] " Wenji Wu
2006-11-29 23:29     ` [patch 2/4] " Wenji Wu
2006-11-29 23:30       ` [patch 3/4] " Wenji Wu
2006-11-29 23:31         ` [patch 4/4] " Wenji Wu
2006-11-30  0:53     ` [patch 1/4] " David Miller
2006-11-30  1:08       ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-30  1:13         ` David Miller
2006-11-30  6:04         ` Mike Galbraith
2006-11-29 23:36   ` Martin Bligh [this message]
2006-11-29 23:42 ` Bug 7596 " Andrew Morton
2006-11-30  6:32   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-19 18:37     ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-19 23:52       ` Herbert Xu
2006-12-20  2:55         ` David Miller
2006-12-20  5:11           ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-20  5:15             ` David Miller
2006-11-30  1:01 ` David Miller

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