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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Linux Networking Developer Mailing List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: TSO on veth device slows transmission to a crawl
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:19:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55257116.30300@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1504081938320.14413@nerf40.vanv.qr>

On 04/08/2015 11:16 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> One more thing to be aware of is that iptraf counts all the
> headers, which netperf likely is not doing.
>
>   -m   1: iptraf  57 MBit/s, netperf   0.69*10^6
>   -m  10: iptraf  63 MBit/s, netperf   6.76*10^6
>   -m 100: iptraf 114 MBit/s, netperf  75.74*10^6
> <no -m>: iptraf~580 MBit/s, netperf 542.00*10^6

Indeed, netperf makes no attempt to count headers.  What it reports is 
strictly above the socket interface.

rick

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-08 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-06 22:45 TSO on veth device slows transmission to a crawl Jan Engelhardt
2015-04-07  2:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-04-07  9:54   ` Jan Engelhardt
2015-04-07 19:49     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-04-08 17:09       ` Jan Engelhardt
2015-04-08 17:20         ` Rick Jones
2015-04-08 18:16           ` Jan Engelhardt
2015-04-08 18:19             ` Rick Jones [this message]
2015-04-09  9:24         ` Eric Dumazet
2015-04-09 10:01           ` Eric Dumazet
2015-04-09 10:26           ` Jan Engelhardt
2015-04-09 15:08             ` Eric Dumazet
2015-04-09 15:35               ` Jan Engelhardt
2015-04-09 15:55                 ` Eric Dumazet

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