From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Denis Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: network namespace ipv6 perfs
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:55:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47CC114F.8050104@openvz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47CC0E3B.1040809@bull.net>
Benjamin Thery wrote:
> Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> Some performance tests was made by Benjamin to watch out the impact of
>> the network namespace. The good news is there is no impact when used
>> with or without namespaces. That has been checked using a real network
>> device inside a network namespace.
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>> These results are consistent with the ones previously made for ipv4.
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>> http://lxc.sourceforge.net/network/bench_ipv6_graph.php
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>> Thanks to Benjamin who did all the performance tests :)
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> In these results, may be, there is one thing that should be explained.
> It is the CPU utilization overhead in the 'veth' case.
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> Compared to physical devices or macvlan, veth interfaces don't benefit
> from hardware offloading mechanisms: i.e. checksums have to be computed
> by the soft. That explains the big overhead in CPU utilization when
You can tune the veth devices not to account checksum when unnecessary.
> using this kind of virtual interface.
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> Benjamin
>
>> Regards
>> -- Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-03 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-03 14:20 network namespace ipv6 perfs Daniel Lezcano
2008-03-03 14:42 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-03-03 14:55 ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2008-03-03 15:04 ` [Devel] " Benjamin Thery
2008-03-03 17:27 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-03-05 12:39 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-03-03 14:48 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-03-03 19:38 ` Rick Jones
2008-03-03 20:01 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-03-04 15:59 ` Benjamin Thery
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