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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk>,
	Robert Olsson <robert@herjulf.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pktgen: tricks
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:32:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ABB4AD9.50002@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909241310.05297.denys@visp.net.lb>

Denys Fedoryschenko a écrit :
> On Thursday 24 September 2009 03:41:41 Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> Other kernel config help:
>>   - turn off lock dependency checker, kmecheck, page alloc debug
>>     basically anything that slows stuff down
>>   - turn off content group scheduler
> Maybe, but i'm not sure (i can't test it):
> Disable randomize VA space? On embedded boards it was helping. 
> In some case disabling SMP helped, when various SMP locks involved, but maybe 
> not for pktgen.
> 
>

pktgen is a kernel module, and is not affected by randomize VA space.

But of course, disabling SMP must help, as long as your machine needs
one cpu only :)


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-24 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-23  5:49 pktgen: tricks Stephen Hemminger
2009-09-24  0:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-09-24  1:05   ` Rick Jones
2009-09-24 10:10   ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-09-24 10:32     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-09-30 23:03   ` [PATCH] pktgen: Avoid dirtying skb->users when txq is full Eric Dumazet
2009-10-01  0:25     ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-10-01  9:47       ` [PATCH] pktgen: Fix delay handling Eric Dumazet
2009-10-01 10:04         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-01 16:29           ` David Miller
2009-10-01 16:32             ` Eric Dumazet

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