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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC VLAN 00/10]: VLAN netlink support try 2
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:08:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4665C2CE.4050504@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4665AB57.7030605@trash.net>

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Ben Greear wrote:
>> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>
>>> The last VLAN patchset was outdated, sorry about the mixup. These are the
>>> correct patches. The iproute patch I posted was correct, so no repost of
>>> that one.
>>>
>>>   
>> Is there any significant performance penalty in creating VLANs using
>> these patches?
>>
>> If you have a test station handy, could you let us know what 'time'
>> shows for a script
>> creating 4000 VLANs with the old vconfig/ioctl method v/s this new method?
> 
> 
> Not significantly more, for 1000 VLANs I get:
> 
> ip link add:
> 
> real    0m22.836s
> user    0m0.100s
> sys     0m5.850s
> 
> vconfig add:
> 
> real    0m19.739s
> user    0m0.090s
> sys     0m3.600s

Thanks for doing the tests.  That small performance drop seems
fine to me.

> ip -b (batch add):
> 
> real    0m5.239s
> user    0m0.280s
> sys     0m3.480s

And that looks quite interesting!

Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-05 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-05 14:36 [RFC VLAN 00/10]: VLAN netlink support try 2 Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:36 ` [RFC VLAN 01/10]: Fix off-by-ones in VLAN ID checks Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 16:16   ` Ben Greear
2007-06-05 18:16     ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:36 ` [RFC VLAN 02/10]: Convert name-based configuration functions to struct netdevice * Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:36 ` [RFC VLAN 03/10]: Move some device intialization code to dev->init callback Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:36 ` [RFC VLAN 04/10]: Move vlan_group allocation to seperate function Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:36 ` [RFC VLAN 05/10]: Split up device checks Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:36 ` [RFC VLAN 06/10]: Move device registation to seperate function Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:37 ` [RFC VLAN 07/10]: Return proper error codes in register_vlan_device Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:37 ` [RFC VLAN 08/10]: Use 32 bit value for skb->priority mapping Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:37 ` [RFC VLAN 09/10]: Keep track of number of QoS mappings Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:37 ` [RFC VLAN 10/10]: Use rtnl_link API Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 21:31   ` Ben Greear
2007-06-05 21:58     ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 22:03       ` Ben Greear
2007-06-05 16:25 ` [RFC VLAN 00/10]: VLAN netlink support try 2 Ben Greear
2007-06-05 18:28   ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 20:08     ` Ben Greear [this message]
2007-06-05 21:12       ` Patrick McHardy

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