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From: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>
To: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [E1000] NAPI re-insertion w/ changes]
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:10:03 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnb86c3g.7vo.lunz@stoli.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 16003.11449.497905.815776@robur.slu.se

Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se said:
> 10 Million pkts injected at high speed into eth2 and forwarded to eth3. Rx and 
> Tx buffers are 256 and HW_FLOW is disabled and RxIntDelay=1. Which is same 
> parameters as we use for production systems. As seen link now flaps. 
> Eventually can hw_flowcontrol and interrupt delays help this... but thats not 
> an option at least not for us. 
> 
> 
> Twist:        New                        Old
>              ====================================
> Input rate:    680 (due to link drop)    820 kpps
> T-put:         309                       385 kpps 
> RX irq's:    78963                       434

I've seen pretty much the same thing. I plotted throughput vs. offered
load for e1000 4.4.12-k1, 4.4.19-k3, and 5.0.43-k1 (all backported to
2.4.20). A summary with graphs is at:

http://gtf.org/lunz/linux/net/perf/

5.0.43 seems to be a significant regression, both in terms of throughput
and CPU load.

-- 
Jason Lunz			Reflex Security
lunz@reflexsecurity.com		http://www.reflexsecurity.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-27 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-27 16:54 [Fwd: [E1000] NAPI re-insertion w/ changes] Robert Olsson
2003-03-27 17:10 ` Jason Lunz [this message]
2003-03-28  8:27   ` Robert Olsson
2003-03-28 17:32     ` Jason Lunz
2003-03-28 18:43       ` Robert Olsson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-02  0:13 Feldman, Scott
2003-04-02  4:19 ` Jason Lunz
2003-04-01 21:22 Feldman, Scott
2003-04-01 19:13 Feldman, Scott
2003-04-01 19:23 ` Jason Lunz
2003-04-01 22:40   ` Jason Lunz
2003-04-01 19:44 ` Robert Olsson
2003-04-01 17:47 Feldman, Scott
2003-04-01 18:57 ` Robert Olsson
2003-04-01 21:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-22 18:47 Feldman, Scott
2003-03-22 20:28 ` Robert Olsson
2003-03-31 17:14 ` Robert Olsson
2003-03-21 14:46 Jeff Garzik
2003-03-22 15:34 ` Robert Olsson

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