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TCP performance drop 2.6.6->2.6.7

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Subject: TCP performance drop 2.6.6->2.6.7
From: Baruch Even <baruch@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:18:35 +0100
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
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Hello,

I'm trying to port my H-TCP and SACK improvements to 2.6.11, but I seem to hit performance problems that are unrelated to what I worked on so far.

My tests show that between 2.6.6 and 2.6.7 the TCP performance dropped considerably.

The setup for the tests, vanilla kernels, dummynet with 100 Mbit/s and 40ms rtt using the BIC protocol. No patches applied whatsoever.

iperf tests for 2.6.6 get about 90Mbit/s while 2.6.7 gets 30Mbit/s.

I was wondering if someone can think of a reason why this happens?

Is there a way to get the different network related patches between these two versions? I don't have access to bk to get it myself.

Baruch

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